Publishers’ Previews

Welcome to The Horn Book Magazine’s Publishers’ Previews, a special advertising supplement that appears in The Horn Book Magazine and allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions.

The Horn Book has been asking Five Questions of authors and illustrators (and the occasional librarian or publisher) since 2008, when the feature debuted — with Jon Scieszka — in the first issue of Notes from the Horn Book, our monthly e-newsletter about good new books (you can sign up for Notes here). I don’t remember why we fixed on five questions in the first place, but fewer than five, and you risk leaving something out or overgeneralizing; more, and you might find yourself asking about favorite foods. Five questions allow for both seriousness and frivolity without either getting the upper hand.

We hope you will enjoy this preview of some of new titles for young people.

Roger Sutton
Editor in Chief Emeritus

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Archive

2021

Picture Books and Graphic Novels
From the November/December 2021 Horn Book Magazine: Dung Ho | Angela De Vito | George O'Connor | Kayla Miller & Jeffrey Canino | Ruth Behar | Alphabet Rockers

Fall 2021
From the September/October 2021 Horn Book Magazine: Karla Arenas Valenti | Katherine Applegate | Mark Oshiro | Mem Fox & Mark Teague | Veronica Chambers

Debut Authors and Illustrators
From the July/August 2021 Horn Book Magazine: Loveis Wise | Areli Morales | Priya Huq

Diverse Books Spotlight
From the May/June 2021 Horn Book Magazine: Chrystal D. Giles | Tahereh Mafi | Donna Barba Higuera

Spring 2021
From the March/April 2021 Horn Book Magazine: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé | Graci Kim | Carole Boston Weatherford

Middle-Grade
From the January/February 2021 Horn Book Magazine: B. B. Alston | Gary Paulsen | David Levithan | Hena Khan

2020

Picture Books and Graphic Novels
From the November/December 2020 Horn Book Magazine: Lily LaMotte | Oge Mora | Elizabeth Zunon | Three Demigoddesses

Fall 2020
From the September/October 2020 Horn Book Magazine: Amanda McCrina | Jan Thomas | Saadia Faruqi | Nic Stone | James Patterson & Kwame Alexander

Debut Authors
From the July/August 2020 Horn Book Magazine: Kim Johnson | Lynnette Mawhinney | Julie Lee

Diversity Five Ways
From the May/June 2020 Horn Book Magazine: Tae Keller | Kiku Hughes | Gayle E. Pitman | Erin Entrada Kelly | Christian Robinson

Spring 2020
From the March/April 2020 Horn Book Magazine: Kelly Yang | Angela DiTerlizzi | Linda Sue Park | Carole Lindstrom & Michaela Goade | Rebecca Stead | Michael Genhart

Middle-Grade Novels
From the January/February 2020 Horn Book Magazine: Lily Williams & Karen Schneemann | Janae Marks | Amy McCulloch

2019

Picture Books
From the November/December 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Angela Joy | Minh Le | GwendolynHooks & Simone Agoussoye | Evan Turk

Fall 2019
From the September/October 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Paul Fleischman | Julie Dillemuth | Morgan Parker | Jen Wang | Sofiya Pasternack

Debut Authors
From the July/August 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Kevin Noble Maillard | Christine Day | Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal | Kathryn Gonzales | Nicole Valentine | Dan Haring & MarcyKate Connolly | Rory Power | Gillian McDunn

Diverse Voices Redux
From the May/June 2019 Horn Book Magazine: April Harrison, Kelly Starling Lyons, Tiffany D. Jackson, Cynthia Kadohata, Sarah & Ian Hoffman, Jerry Pinkney, Aminah Mae Safi

Spring 2019
From the March/April 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Jasmine Warga, Eloise Greenfield, Remy Lai, Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Middle-Grade Novels
From the January/February 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Dan Gemeinhart, Yoon Ha Lee, Erin Bow

2018

Picture Books
From the November/December 2018 Horn Book Magazine: Maira Kalman, Anika Aldamuy Denise & Paola Escobar, Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Fall 2018
From the September/October 2018 Horn Book Magazine: James Sturm, Don Brown, Corey Ann Haydu, Kenneth Oppel, Alex London, Mark Tatulli, Ketch Secor

Debut Authors
From the July/August 2018 Horn Book Magazine: Adrienne Kisner, Allison Varnes, NoNieqa Ramos

Diverse Voices
From the May/June 2018 Horn Book Magazine: Justina Ireland, Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson, Pénélope Bagieu, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Lesa Cline-Ransome

Spring 2018
From the March/April 2018 Horn Book Magazine: Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead, Brian Lies, J. S. Puller, Sara Saedi, Randy Ribay

2017

Picture Books
From the November/December 2017 Horn Book Magazine: Matthew Cordell, Greg Pizzoli, Stephanie Graegin, Bao Phi

Fall 2017
From the September/October 2017 Horn Book Magazine: Michelle Cuevas, Patrick Ness, Dan Santat, Shelley Johannes, Sherri Duskey Rinker & John Rocco, David Barclay Moore, Patricia Forde

Debut Authors
From the July/August 2017 Horn Book Magazine: J. C. Geiger, Nic Stone, Karina Yan Glaser, Nidhi Chanani, Jessica Townsend, Gillian French

Spring 2017
From the March/April 2017 Horn Book Magazine: Laurel Snyder, Marcus Sedgwick, Steven B. Frank, Shaun David Hutchinson, Jeff Zentner

2016

Fall 2016
From the September/October 2016 Horn Book Magazine: Adam Gidwitz, Brian Won, Laurie Halse Anderson, Sharon Creech, Helen & Thomas Docherty, Robin Roe, Brendan Wenzel, Ed Vere, Kevin Sands, Jennifer Mathieu

Debut Authors
From the July/August 2016 Horn Book Magazine: Kate Beasley, Eric Dinerstein, Christine Kendall, Katrina Goldsaito, David Litchfield, Christina Soontornvat, Peter Brown Hoffmeister

Spring 2016
From the March/April 2016 Horn Book Magazine: Sara Pennypacker, Lois Sepahban, Eileen Cook, Gavriel Savit, Cynthia Rylant

2015

Fall 2015
From the September/October 2015 Horn Book Magazine: Sarah Beth Durst, Nicholas Gannon, Jonathan Stroud, Dav Pilkey, Erin & Philip Stead, Eric Pierpoint, Laura Amy Schlitz

Spring 2015
From the March/April 2015 Horn Book Magazine: Thanhhà Lai, Ed Young, Lane Smith, Henry Turner, Bob Shea, Jeanne Birdsall

2014

Fall 2014
From the September/October 2014 Horn Book Magazine: Carrie Ryan & John Parke Davis, Lynne Rae Perkins, Ami Polonsky, Ann M. Martin, Jacqueline Woodson, George Hagen, Christopher Paul Curtis