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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....
Colleagues and Co-Conspirators
by Steven KelloggFor the past fifteen years I have regularly interspersed the time I spend sequestered in my Connecticut studio writing and illustrating picture books with journeys back and forth across the country to present programs in schools, libraries, and other settings where people interested in children and their literature...
Review of Picture This
Picture This: Perception and Compositionby Molly Bang; illus. by the authorIntermediate Bulfinch/Little 141 pp.9/91 Paper ed. 0-8212-1855-7 $12.95With a foreword by Rudolf Arnheim. If I could buy only one book this year, this would be the one. If I could take only one book on a long vacation, this would...
Horn Book Reminiscence from Elizabeth Orton Jones
by Elizabeth Orton JonesTchrr-r-r-r! The phone would ring. I’d answer, and after a considerable while I’d hear a faint little quavery voice, as if someone were calling me from beyond the Pleiades…“E-li-i-izabeth?”It would be my dear friend Bertha Mahony Miller, calling from Ashburnham, Massachusetts, about seventeen miles from Mason, New...
Review of A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal
A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott MedalLeonard S. MarcusIntermediate Walker 49 pp.10/98 ISBN 0-8027-8656-1 $18.95 gLibrary edition ISBN 0-8027-8658-8 $19.95In observance of the sixtieth anniversary of the Caldecott Medal, Leonard Marcus, noted for his critical work in the history of children's literature, presents a gathering...
Editorial: Cultural Currency
I was late for work, walking down the street to my subway stop. The trash collectors had come and gone, leaving the narrow sidewalk strewn with empty plastic barrels, upright, sideways, rolling about. Coming the other way up the walk were two tough-looking UPS ladies, and I stepped aside to...
American Picture Books from Max’s Metaphorical Monsters to Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
In the course of the last thirty years or so, American picture books have become a mainstay of American life — and items of merchandise — without altogether extinguishing the individual creative voice. They have also ceased to be, in any defining way, American.Until very recently, children in Western societies...
To Get a Little More of the Picture: Reviewing Picture Books
"It is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives."— Graham Greene"Any book which is at all important should be reread immediately."— SchopenhauerThe management has suggested that I review picture book reviewing. "Feel free to rant about its sorry state." I also feel wary, as I...
An Interview with Walter Lorraine
The multifaceted Walter Lorraine was a designer and art director at Houghton Mifflin before being named Director of Children’s Books, a position he held from 1965–1995. He now heads his own imprint, Walter Lorraine Books. Leonard S. Marcus: How did you get started in publishing?Walter Lorraine: As a student at...
Following in Their Fathers’ Paths
When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.— Ashanti proverb (from In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall)In the late 1960s, modern African-American literature for children was just coming into its own. For some of us, the 1967 publication of Virginia Hamilton’s Zeely was...
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