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Happy Tu Bishvat!
Tomorrow is Tu Bishvat, the Jewish holiday (of many spellings) considered the New Year of the Trees. Looking for tree-related inspiration? See the Trees tag, or the more specific Holidays --Tu B’Shvat tag, in the Guide/Reviews Database. Or see the Trees tag on hbook.com, especially this verdant veritable forest from a few...
2021: The Year of the Tree?
We've spotted the birds and the bees, then bears, now trees? Yes, that's right, a new trend in picture books is putting down roots (and it's also been pretty prevalent in longer works, too; see Maybe, Maybe Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly for just one such example from this...
Winter Secrets
Winter can seem like a time when there isn’t much going on outside; in fact, the season offers opportunities to see things that are otherwise obscured by the growth and busyness of the other seasons. At our house in winter, for example, we can see through the skeletons of trees...
Winter Seeds
I am thankful for the evergreens, especially at this time of the year when other trees are bare and many animals have migrated to warmer climes. Evergreens provide a bit of color, their green needles glistening in the winter sunlight, in our now mostly monotone winter landscape, and they hold...
Family Trees: A Celebration of Children's Literature
Children's literature scholar and long-time friend of the Horn Book, Carolyn Shute recently let me know about a seasonal exhibit at the Concord (MA) Museum. If you live in the area or will be in or near eastern Massachusetts in the next few weeks, I recommend making the museum's Family...
Do we pass the smell test?
Oh faithful print subscribers: We've had a few observations/complaints about the smell of the March/April issue of The Horn Book Magazine. While it is a special issue ("Books Remixed: Reading in the Digital Age") we did not intentionally supply it with any kind of odoriferous effects; nevertheless, when I put...
>With the movie starring the next Shia LaBeouf?
>This whole iPhone leak story sounds like a YA novel. The boy (probably pudgy) lives with his mysteriously unreachable single dad, who runs a bar (this will allow for lots of wisdom from the grizzled regulars). Our computer nerd antihero is completely uncool--until the day he finds a too-cool-to-be-true device...
Digital reviewing
>We had a call this morning from a publisher who is thinking about supplying reviewers with f&gs of picture books in digital form and wanted to know if Horn Book could work with that/those.I demurred. Electronic galleys for fiction, maybe. Although my Kindle gathers dust (too hard to hold; I...
>Does size matter?
>Motoko Rich reports that Hugo Cabret is the longest Caldecott winner ever. (Boy, is she sharp or what?) I wonder if any Newberys are longer. Although the neater parallel record would be the shortest Newbery: A Visit to William Blake's Inn?...
>Steve Jenkins says Just Say Know
>Steve Jenkins gave a great speech yesterday morning here at the Red Clover conference connecting his own (and children's) interest in scale, the large scale and numbers involved in contemporary science, and the refusal of a large part of the public to believe in the scientific evidence regarding, among other...
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