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 Galleries’ 35th Annual Illustration Celebration, on view through January 2025. Prominently featured is The Horn Book Collection: a spectacular selection of original cover art and process work by a dozen creators including David Macaulay (1990), the late Jerry Pinkney (1995), Grace Lin (2022), and Bryan Collier (2023).