From the Editor - June 2025

by Elissa Gershowitz
Jun 18, 2025 | Filed in Newsletters

I hope you will join us (virtually at hbook.com and on Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky) next Monday, June 23, at 12 p.m. EDT for the announcement of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards. We’re usually a fairly “open book,” but from when the judges tell us their fab choices to when we make the announcement, the slate remains our little secret. Our other time of secrecy comes with July/August Horn Book Magazine’s “reveal.” If you’re at ALA Annual, bright and early Monday morning you can grab your free copy at Booth 705 to read the Newbery, Caldecott, Children’s Literature Legacy, and Coretta Scott King award-winning speeches. There may even be a special guest! Copies will also be available for purchase on our website; better yet, subscribe.

From the June 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.

Elissa Gershowitz

Elissa Gershowitz is editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc. She holds an MA from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons University and a BA from Oberlin College.

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