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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....
Leo Edwards and the Secret and Mysterious Order of the Freckled Goldfish
In 1935, at age seven, I sent off two two-cent stamps to Leo Edwards in order to become a member of the Secret and Mysterious Order of the Freckled Goldfish. The club took its name from Edwards's book Poppy Ott and the Freckled Goldfish. For my two stamps I was...
Marcia Brown
by Janet A. LorangerThirty-seven years ago, Marcia Brown published her first picture book for children: The Little Carousel.* On June 28, 1983, she received her third Caldecott Medal for Shadow. Those years from 1946 to 1983 have encompassed one of the most distinguished careers in American children's books. That her...
A Second Look: Harriet the Spy
Harriet the Spy was published in 1964. That was the year I read it twelve times. That was the year our school bookstore kept running out of green composition notebooks, and the cafeteria was plagued with requests for tomato sandwiches. A memorable year for many of us.Now, sixteen years later,...
Writing for the Very Young: An Emotional Déjà Vu
by Charlotte ZolotowThe more I try to analyze children’s books — or the fusion of feelings and events that goes into writing for children — the more I realize what a mystery children’s thoughts are and what a mystery the whole process of writing for children is. Part of it...
Review of If Snow Falls
If Snow Falls: A Story for Decemberby Jon Agee; illus. by the authorPrimary Pantheon 36 pp.1982 0-394-85520-5 $5.95Library ed. ISBN 0-394-95520-X $6.99Calling to mind the individual frames of a film, small richly colored paintings progress sequentially in concert with the lulling rhythm of a brief text. The first page shows...
Review of Finger Rhymes
Finger Rhymescompiled by Marc Brown; illus. by the compilerPreschool, Primary Dutton/Unicorn 32 pp.1980 0-525-29732-4 $8.95Fourteen familiar finger rhymes, one to a page, are accompanied by black-and-white line drawings shaded with gray, old-fashioned in detail but contemporary in style. At the head of each appropriate line of text, directions for...
Horn Book reviews of Caldecott Medal winners, 1980-1989
1980DONALD HALLOx-Cart Man (Viking)Illustrated by Barbara CooneyLike a pastoral symphony translated into picture book format, the stunning combination of text and illustrations re-creates the mood of nineteenth-century rural New England. Economical and straightforward, the narrative achieves a poetic tone through the use of alliteration and repetition, as in the description...
Profiles of Cynthia Voigt
Cynthia Voigt's mother and daughter profile the author to celebrate her 1983 Newbery Medal Award win for Dicey's Song.by Elise K. IrvingWhen Cynthia called that Monday night, she asked if I was sitting down before she told me that she had won the Newbery. And she was right. It is...
An Interview with Robert Cormier
by Anita SilveyBeyond the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier is being published by Knopf on April 21, 1985. This interview, conducted at Robert Cormier’s home in Leominster, Massachusetts, took place on December 20, 1984, and focuses on the new book, his methods of writing, and the influences on his work.AS:...
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