Table of Contents: September/October 2025 Horn Book Magazine


Cover from The House That Floated. © 2025 by Guojing, published by Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.

 

Features            

An Important Job by Mac Barnett
The author’s National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature inauguration speech.

 

Columns

Editorial

What Do YOU Think? by Elissa Gershowitz
Narrative ambiguity in uncertain times.

The Writer’s Page

Freedom Braids by Monique Duncan
The power of metaphors in “liberation literature.”

Field Notes

Teaching Our Stories with the Latinx KidLit Book Festival by Tracey T. Flores and Carla España
A conversation between two of the festival’s educator council members about its significance to their academic work and lives.

The Writer’s Page

The Impossibility of Writing Board Books by Rachel G. Payne
Why “short and simple is hard and difficult.”

Cadenza

Crayon Drawing by Shawn Harris

 

Reviews

Book Reviews

 

Departments

September/October Starred Books

Impromptu

Index to Advertisers

Index to Books Reviewed

 


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