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May/June 2010 Horn Book Magazine

• Picture book columnist Leonard Marcus conducts an "imaginary interview" with Margaret Wise Brown, who was born one hundred years ago this month.

• Editor Patricia Lee Gauch ponders what she's learned from the illustrators she's worked with — Eric Carle, Patricia Pollaco, Ed Young — over the years of her career.

• Ellen Wittlinger wonders why her YA novels are too gay for some high schools but she's too straight for the Lambda Awards.

• Jennifer Armstrong traces a provocative argument stemming from children's literature's reliance on animals, talking and otherwise.

• Julie Larios invites us to consider the pleasures of maps in books.

• Borderlands columnist Jonathan Hunt looks at war in recent YA novels and nonfiction.

• And, just in time for the ceremonies, our staff and reviewers weigh in on "What Makes a Good Graduation Gift Book?"