Special Issue: ALA Awards

Original cover art by 2020 Caldecott Medal winner Kadir Nelson. 

“A Year with Words and Pictures — but No ALA Annual”: The Horn Book editors discuss the children’s book landscape of 2019 and the unusual circumstances of 2020. 

Kevin Henkes’s Children's Literature Legacy Award acceptance speech. 

A profile of Kevin Henkes by Dudley Carlson, Laura Dronzek, Virginia Duncan, and Susan Hirschman. 

A profile of Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award winner Mildred D. Taylor by Regina Hayes. 

Kadir Nelson’s Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and Caldecott Medal acceptance speeches. 

Jerry Craft’s Coretta Scott King Author Award and Newbery Medal acceptance speeches. 

A profile of Jerry Craft by his editor, Andrew Eliopulos. 

Chairs LaKeshia Darden, Krishna Grady¸ and Julie Roach share reflections about the Coretta Scott King jury and Newbery and Caldecott committees’ choices. 

Happy Anniversary: On its thirty-fifth birthday, Nicholl Denice Montgomery looks back on Virginia Hamilton’s iconic CSK Author Award winner The People Could Fly. 

In Memoriam: Andrew Medlar’s remembrance of Tomie dePaola. 

Cadenza: 2020 Mind the Gap Awards. 

Impromptu: books back in print.

Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may be ordered from:

Kristy South
Administrative Coordinator, The Horn Book
Phone 888-282-5852 | Fax 614-733-7269
ksouth@juniorlibraryguild.com