Horn Book Magazine Reviewers

Principal reviewers | Guest reviewers

Principal reviewers are permanent members of The Horn Book review staff.
Guest reviewers write occasional book reviews for the Magazine.

Principal reviewers

Jennifer M. Brabander is senior editor of The Horn Book Magazine.

Betty Carter, an independent consultant, is professor emerita of children’s and young adult literature at Texas Woman’s University.

Vancouver author and critic Sarah Ellis currently teaches writing at Vermont College. Her latest novel is Odd Man Out (Groundwood).

Kitty Flynn is senior editor of The Horn Book Guide and online content editor for The Horn Book Inc.

Danielle J. Ford is an associate professor of science education at the University of Delaware.

Christine Heppermann is a freelance writer and former children’s bookseller based in Minnesota.

Jonathan Hunt is an elementary school librarian for the Modesto City Schools District in California.

Susan Dove Lempke is the children’s services supervisor for the Niles Public Library District in Illinois. She has previously reviewed for The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books and Booklist.

Joanna Rudge Long is former editor of Kirkus Reviews and a frequent lecturer on children’s books.

Martha V. Parravano is executive editor of The Horn Book Magazine.

Robin L. Smith teaches second grade at the Ensworth School in Nashville, Tennessee.

Roger Sutton is editor-in-chief of The Horn Book, Inc.

Lauren Adams teaches English at Brookline High School in Massachusetts.

Lelac Almagor is a writer and English teacher living in Washington, D.C.

Tanya D. Auger is a former middle school teacher with a master’s degree in learning and teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Barbara Bader is a regular contributor to The Horn Book.

Deirdre F. Baker reviews children’s books for the Toronto Star and teaches children’s literature at the University of Toronto.

Anita L. Burkam is a former associate editor of The Horn Book Magazine.

Mary Burkey is a middle school teacher-librarian who has served as the chair of ALA’s Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production and Notable Children’s Recordings committees and blogs about audiobooks at http://audiobooker.blogspot.com.

Monica Edinger teaches fourth grade at the Dalton School in New York City.

Roxanne Hsu Feldman is the middle school librarian for the Dalton School in New York.

Elissa Gershowitz is managing editor of The Horn Book Guide.

Claire E. Gross, a former associate editor of The Horn Book Magazine, is enrolled in the master’s program at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Betsy Hearne is professor emerita of children’s literature and storytelling in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. She is also a reviewer, a critic, and the author of books for both adults and children.

Megan Lynn Isaac, an associate professor at Elon University, teaches and writes about Shakespeare, children’s literature, and young adult literature.

Kathleen Isaacs is a former middle school teacher.

Nina Lindsay is supervising librarian for children's services at the Oakland Library in Oakland, California.

Chelsey G. H. Philpot is editorial assistant of The Horn Book Guide.

Angela J. Reynolds is head of children’s and young adult services at Annapolis Valley Regional Library in Nova Scotia, Canada, and has served on ALA’s Notable Children’s Recordings committee.

Lolly Robinson is designer and production manager for The Horn Book, Inc.

Michael Santangelo is a librarian in the Office of Materials Selection at the Brooklyn Public Library.

Dean Schneider teaches seventh and eighth grades at the Ensworth School in Nashville, Tennessee.

Rachel L. Smith is assistant editor for Educators Publishing Service and a former marketing and circulation manager of The Horn Book, Inc.

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