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A Note from Me (May 28, 2021)
Dear friends: ALA is upon us! At least in HB land — I was just looking at layouts of The Speeches, gorgeous, and great speeches as well. That’s all you’ll get out of me. In her tenure as HB editor, Anita Silvey limited herself to saying “they aren’t too long,”...
Review of Let Your Voice Be Heard: The Life and Times of Pete Seeger
Let Your Voice Be Heard: The Life and Times of Pete Seegerby Anita SilveyIntermediate Clarion 104 pp.8/16 978-0-547-33012-9 $17.99“Pete Seeger became the most important folk singer of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But he might have chosen a very different path.” In addition to abundant primary source material, Silvey makes...
That's a lotta work, girl.
I just found out via Twitter that former HB editor Anita Silvey has a new blog, the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac. God help her, Anita is posting a book recommendation daily, each tied in some way to that day's significance. Today, for example, she writes about the D'Aulaires' Abraham Lincoln in...
>Some people still wear a hat.
>Former Horn Book editor Anita Silvey received the Education Publishing Association's Ludington Award "for an individual who has made a significant contribution to the paperback book business." Her confrerees at the award banquet sported the singular Silvey accessory in her honor:(Anita is second from the left.)Let us join in the...
Horn Book Guide | editorial
By Anita Silvey “A magazine devoted to books must always consider ways of keeping its character vital and fresh . . . . But the artist wants and needs the resistance of the intelligent, appreciative, but honest and salty judge of his work,” Bertha Mahony Miller once wrote. To continue the ideal of keeping...
Susan Cooper Letter to Anita Silvey (June 7, 1986)
7 June 1986 Dear Anita, Here’s my Second Look at THE NARGUN AND THE STARS. It’s 1150 words by my count; hope it will do. Just one plea: if anything is changed, even a comma, I’d like to approve it first. And if...
Horn Book Magazine Editors
Bertha Mahony Miller founder of Horn Book, editor from 1924 to 1951 Bertha Everett Mahony Miller was born in 1882. She joined the staff of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union which protected and promoted the status of Boston’s working women, in 1906. Ten years later, under the auspices...
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