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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....
Distinction in Picture Books
by Marcia BrownEditor's Note: Although addressed to librarians, Miss Brown's paper speaks equally to parents.What is a distinguished picture book? With the changes that have come about in publishing in the last few years, the fate of the picture book lies squarely in the hands of librarians. Today it takes...
“Our Miss Jones”
by Annis Duff Elizabeth Orton Jones at work in her studioOne afternoon, a year ago last February, Elizabeth Jones came to tea. It was quite an occasion, for although we had known her incarnate, so to speak, for a comparatively short time, we were very much at home with her...
Elizabeth Orton Jones's Caldecott acceptance speech
by Elizabeth Orton Jones*Read at the Awards Luncheon when the Caldecott Medal was given to Elizabeth Orton Jones for her illustrations in Rachel Field’s Prayer for a Child (Macmillan).There was once a little girl who found it very puzzling to say “thank you.” The words were too small for the...
Horn Book reviews of Caldecott Medal winners, 1940-1949
1940INGRI AND EDGAR PARIN D'AULAIRE, Author-IllustratorsAbraham Lincoln (Doubleday)"Deep in the wilderness down in Kentucky there stood a cabin of roughly hewn logs. It was a poor little cabin of only one room. But the flames flickered gaily on the hearth....In this cabin lived a man named Thomas Lincoln with his...
Leo Politi Envelope addresed to Bertha E. Miller (1947)
About Leo Politi | More about Politi's Horn Book connection | About Bertha Mahony Miller...
Christmas at Huckleberry Mountain Library
by Lois LenskiHuckleberry mountain library — the only rural library in Henderson County, North Carolina — is open for two hours every other Sunday afternoon to the mountain children, and was to be open on December 23. Packages of books from three of my publishers arrived on the 22nd, just...
Beatrix Potter in Letters
by Bertha E. Mahony"'Here’s peppermints for you, Pig-wig! Here's peppermints for you.' Pig-wig is you, Allan, and I've got peppermints at home for you." So spoke my grandnephew, Arnold, aged four years, as he came running out onto my sleeping porch, one morning this week, with the little friend who...
Americans With the Wrong Ancestors
By Clara BreedWhen her Japanese-American patrons were sent to internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor, San Diego children's librarian Clara Breed wrote the following article for The Horn Book.A little more than a year ago, libraries in California, Oregon, and Washington were swept clean of some of their...
Beatrix Potter Letter to Bertha Mahony Miller (November 24, 1941)
Castle Cottage Sawrey Ambleside Nov. 24 41 Dear Mrs. Bertha Miller, The winter’s cold and bad weather is here again. I hope it has not brought any more bronchitis to you? I have only got a cold in my nose; and let us both make good resolutions...
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