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(c) 2025 by Shawn Harris. From the September/October 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Single copies of this issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may be ordered from: Horn Book Magazine Customer Service magazinesupport@mediasourceinc.com Full subscription information is here....
Children are highly attuned to human emotions, curiously observant, and intuitively responsive to their environments. They begin to form ideas of fairness in early childhood. While they don’t yet understand all the complexities of the world, children are more aware than adults realize and could actually benefit from learning the...
I started writing books for very young children in anger. A strange admission, I know. I was receiving a wobbly stack of board books to review for Kirkus each month, and I often vented about how developmentally inappropriate many were. I got holiday titles that read like extra-thick greeting cards...
I started writing books for children because I love reading picture books out loud to kids. But I started loving reading because my mom read picture books out loud to me. My mom and dad divorced when I was one, and she took being a single mom very seriously. She...
Founded in 2020, the Latinx KidLit Book Festival (LKBF) is a free, virtual annual event starting in September that celebrates Latinx authors, illustrators, and books. The following is a conversation between LKBF Educator Council members about the festival's significance to their academic work and lives. See also hbook.com/story/the-latinx-kidlit-book-festival. Growing up,...
I’m generally a fan of ambiguous stories. As satisfying as it can be to have narrative closure, or to reread for the hundredth time a book you know is a favorite and won’t suddenly shift out from under you, it can also be weirdly comforting to reach the conclusion of...
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...
August may be winding down, but we’ve still got plenty of new reading recommendations: summer-set stories for middle-graders-and-up and page-turning (and door-stopping!) tomes for YA readers. See also our annual Summer Reading list and last month’s issue of Notes for back-to-school stories for all ages. For an astounding real-life whale...
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...
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