Preview September/October 2025 Horn Book Magazine

by Horn Book
Aug 08, 2025 | Filed in Articles & Opinion

Cover art by Guojing from The House That Floated.

Mac Barnett’s National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature inauguration speech.

The Writer’s Page: Freedom Braids author Monique Duncan on the power of “liberation literature.”

Field Notes: a conversation between Tracey T. Flores and Carla España about the Latinx KidLit Book Festival’s significance to their academic work and lives.

The Writer’s Page: Rachel G. Payne on writing board books and why “short and simple is hard and difficult.”

Cadenza: “Crayon Drawing” by Shawn Harris

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