Editorials
One year ago, we were putting the finishing touches on our special issue highlighting “Our Centennial” during a yearlong celebration of The Horn Book Magazine’s hundredth anniversary. If you haven’t seen it recently (or at all), please check it out; commemorative copies are still available for purchase, and you’ll find...
Downpour. © 2025 by Yuko Ohnari and Koshiro Hata. As longtime readers know, pleasure reading is a core value of the hundred-plus-year-old Horn Book, and Summer Reading provides an opportunity to follow that bliss. Or to discover a new type of bliss. Or to have your bliss challenged. We welcome...
I recently had the great good fortune to attend a voice recital by my dear college friend Limmie Pulliam. Titled “Resilience and Revelation: A Musical Exploration of the Human Condition,” the program comprised “spirituals, songs, and arias,” and included a sublime and timely encore. This issue of Notes, including Five...
We’ve retired the HB100 horn logo (HB200, here we come!), and I am a fan of designer Denise Maldonado’s digital illustration, above, with its similarly eye-catching graphic appeal. I read the image as: “The Horn Book and…” It is a theme that serendipitously runs throughout this issue of the magazine....
Who’s got the flu? Here in Massachusetts we’re getting walloped ("Flu virus just won’t quit this year,” says the Boston Globe), making it a particularly good time to read Amy Cherrix’s well-researched and highly compelling Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike and Five Questions interview....
Calling Caldecott fans: tomorrow’s the day! Our annual Mock Caldecott ballot opens at noon on Thursday, January 16. Just like the real committee members, you pick your top three picture-book choices, ranked and weighted; unlike on the real committee, there’s just one round. (Also unlike the real committee, our outcome...
It was an especially busy, unusually in-person end of 2024 for the Horn Book. Following appreciative receipt of the Mentor Award at the Carle Honors Benefit Gala in NYC, we spent time at the sixteenth annual Boston Book Festival. A road trip to Western Massachusetts led to the R. Michelson...
We’re so excited for our upcoming in-person events in Boston, in commemoration of our hundredth birthday year. Join Roger Sutton and me — and three fab panels of authors and illustrators — this Thursday, November 21, for the Horn Book’s first-ever Evening of Dialogue, kicking off the NCTE Conference; then...
Exactly when is it “all calm,” amidst a soon-to-be bustling fall and winter holiday season and a fraught and consequential national election? For me, for a moment, there’s great calm in looking at this issue’s peaceful cover art, by Kerilynn Wilson, from One Foggy Christmas Eve. During this time of...
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