Search Results
8 Results for: 1930s
Last 30 days
Last 6 months
Last 12 months
Last 24 months
Specific Dates
From:
To:
Horn Book Magazine articles by decade
Here is a selection of articles from our archives by decade up through the 1990s. Find articles from 2000–present via searches on hbook.com....
May Massee: As Her Author-Illustrators See Her
by Ludwig BemelmansAbout seven years ago a typographer brought Miss Massee to my house for dinner. It was a dreary building of six rooms in a noisy neighborhood. The windows of my living room looked out at a cobweb of telegraph wires, a water tank, and a Claude Neon sign...
In Defense of Butterflies
by Barbara Newhall FollettA flash of black and orange outside the upstairs window; I sprang up. leaving arithmetic problems to solve themselves. “Butterfly!” I yelled, for the information of anyone who wanted to know. I grabbed my net and raced outdoors. A butterfly as lustrous as the one that had...
Personal Progress Toward the Orient*
by Thomas Handforth*Paper read at the meeting of the Section for Work with Children on the occasion of the American Library Association Conference in San Francisco, June 20, 1939. Thomas Handforth self portrait, 1939.My progress to the Orient began apparently with my first baby steps and observations. I was born...
Horn Book reviews of Caldecott Medal winners, 1938-1939
Below are original Horn Book Magazine reviews of Caldecott Medal winners from the inaugural 1938 award to 1939.1938DOROTHY LATHROPAnimals of the Bible, A Picture Book (Stokes)Twenty-seven pictures presenting the Creation, Noah's Ark, Abraham's ram, Daniel's lions, Jonah's great fish, the Good Samaritan's beast, the Prodigal Son's pigs and many others...
Thomas Handforth’s “Mei Li”
reviewed by Elizabeth CoatsworthNo picture book of the year is more beautiful than Mei Li, the story of the adventure of a little Chinese girl going with her brother to the nearby town to see the winter fair, and returning by camel to their farm in time to welcome the...
The Story of "Mei Li"*
by Thomas Handforth*A paper read at the Newbery-Caldecott dinner at the Sixty-first Annual Conference of the American Library Association meeting in San Francisco. This paper and the one following, “Personal Progress Toward the Orient,” are published for their permanent value in place of the informal remarks made by Mr. Handforth...
Arna Bontemps Letter to Bertha E. Mahony (February 26, 1938)
Chicago, Illinois26 February ’38Miss Bertha E. MahonyThe Horn BookBostonDear Miss Mahony:Thanks very much for your pleasant note.I'll be glad to write something for The Horn Book. So if you will send the copies you mentioned of back issues, I'll do my best to suggest something suitable. Some ideas come immediately...
ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? LOG IN
We are currently offering this content for free. Sign up now to activate your personal profile, where you can save articles for future viewing.
ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? LOG IN
Thank you for visiting.
We’ve noticed you are using a private browser. To continue, please log in or create an account.
