Table of Contents: November/December 2021 Horn Book Magazine

Cover from Red and Green and Blue and White. Illustration © 2021 by Paul O. Zelinsky.

 

Features

Caterpillar Man by Leonard S. Marcus
Remembering Eric Carle, 1929–2021.

When Failure Is Not an Option by Christine Taylor-Butler
Sparking creativity and making connections with diverse STEM experts.

Bad Books (and How I've Learned to Love Them) by Eric Rohmann
In praise of “the rebellious, the eccentric, the peculiar fragments that begin our own stories.”

 

Columns

Editorial

It's Time to Light the Lights by Elissa Gershowitz
Stories can help us process and memorialize this time of uncertainty.

Happy Anniversary

All-of-a-Kind Family by Emily Schneider
On its seventieth anniversary, a fond look at this first in a series of novels about Jewish American childhood in the early twentieth century.

Board Book Roundup

Young at Heart by Rachel G. Payne
2021 board books recommended for “little ones — and maybe a big kid or two.”

 

Reviews

Holiday High Notes
Selected new and reissued holiday titles.

Book Reviews

 

Departments

November/December Starred Books

Impromptu

Index to Advertisers

Index to Books Reviewed

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