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The December issue of Notes usually just consists of Fanfare, an embarrassment of riches in itself. But we couldn’t be luckier — and we couldn’t be happier — to have a chance to interview longtime Friend of the Horn Book Gregory Maguire. Maguire wrote the 1995 adult book Wicked: The...
To think that I have been reading The Horn Book Magazine for half of its lifetime! As a sophomore at the University at Albany about fifty years ago, I talked my way into a course in children’s literature offered by the graduate school of library science. The professor perched nimbly...
Cress Watercress by Gregory Maguire; illus. by David Litchfield Primary, Intermediate Candlewick 224 pp. g 3/22 978-1-5362-1100-9 $19.99 In this richly imagined woodland adventure, a grieving rabbit family — Mama, Cress, and baby Kip (with stuffed carrot “Rotty” always in tow) — must leave their comfortable warren to start over...
Cover art by David Litchfield from Cress Watercress, written by Gregory Maguire. “The Shut Doors of Libraries”: Jeannine Atkins on acknowledging the history and legacy of segregation. Sylvie Kantorovitz on the value of graphic memoirs. Dean Schneider on teaching Flying Lessons and the art of the writing prompt, with thoughts...
It’s a trick of the human mind that we rarely remember experiences in sequence. Rather, our brain does something scattershot, collaged. When emotion inflects memory, as happens at the death of a friend, it can be a struggle to organize the onrush of the past into narrative coherence. The news...
I first met Jane in the spring of 1975. Invited for lunch, I showed up at her beautiful home in Lincoln determined to make a lasting impression. At Harvard Square I had bought the cheapest flowers I could find — daffodils — and I arrived in her kitchen with twelve...
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, established in 1967, we will be publishing a series of appreciations of BGHB winners and honorees from the past. This is the first in the series; further installments will appear in the Horn Book Magazine and on hbook.com...
The Best Manby Richard PeckIntermediate, Middle School Dial 232 pp.9/16 978-0-8037-3839-3 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-698-18973-7 $10.99Rise and toast The Best Man, Peck’s story about Archer Magill, a boy growing from a raw dollop of kindergarten id into a functional middle-school kid, a budding citizen of the world. As a participant...
For my presence here this evening, I’m so grateful to the committee, and to the institutions of the Boston Globe, the Horn Book Magazine, and the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons College, as host. I’m grateful to Liz Bicknell, my editor at Candlewick, and all the...
The Amber Spyglassby Philip PullmanMiddle School, High School Knopf 523 pp.10/00 0-679-87926-9 $19.95Armed with a rare numbered typescript copy of The Amber Spyglass, I’m tempted to roll up my shirtsleeves, light a cigar, splash some Tokay into a glass, and discuss fine points of reason, fancy, and theology before all...