Horn Book Magazine -- November/December 2011









November/December 2011 Horn Book Magazine

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Features



Mo Willems

11

Why Books?
An adaptation of the author’s 2011 Zena Sutherland Lecture.



Jack Gantos

18

Mausoleum Madness
Or, children’s books six feet under.



Barbara Bader
41
Nonfiction: What’s Really New and Different—and What Isn’t
A response to The Horn Book’s special issue on nonfiction.



Ron Koertge
48
Lunacy
In which Mother Goose almost loses it.


  

Columns



Roger Sutton

7

Editorial
The Sign on Sendak’s Door
A proclamation to get behind.


  
Giving Thanks

Carmen Agra Deedy

Marc Aronson

Susan Patron

Malinda Lo

Rita Williams-Garcia

15

38

46

56

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Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin.
Mukiwa by Peter Godwin.
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett.
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide /
When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange.



Danielle J. Ford

28

What Makes a Good…?
What Makes a Good Space Book?



Leonard S. Marcus

34

Sight Reading
Touchy
Picture books and the feel of the page.



Sandra Dutton

51

The Writer’s Page
The Poetry of Talk
An author’s appreciation for dialect in children’s books.



Megan Lambert

58

Books in the Home
O Christmas Books!
Reading and the myth of Santa.


 
135

From The Guide
More Good Space Books
A selection of reviews from The Horn Book Guide.


Horn Book staff
144

Cadenza
What’s Under the Tree?
A handful of children’s book characters get what they deserve.


  

Reviews


 
65

75

133


Book Reviews

Audiobook Reviews


  

Departments


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142
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November/December Starred Books
Impromptu
Index to Advertisers
Index to Books Reviewed
  


Cover and page 1 art from The Money We’ll Save. © 2011 by Brock Cole.




   
  

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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