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Borderlands: Reading as Theater
In the introduction to Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children (1990), William Zinsser wrote, “This gift — to get good language into the ear of children at a very early age — is what children’s literature has in its power to bestow…to write well it...
On Kristin Cashore's "Different Drums: Embracing the Strange" (from 2013)
Author Kristin Cashore’s “Different Drums: Embracing the Strange” appeared in the Magazine’s March/April 2013 special issue, “Different Drummers.” The short piece is her response to the Horn Book editors’ question, posed to a handful of authors, publishers, and critics: “What’s the strangest children’s book you’ve ever enjoyed?”Kristin’s answer? Moominsummer Madness...
My Own Discretion Advised
Some parents are strict. They limit what their kids can watch on TV and how many hours they can watch it. They don’t allow their kids to read certain books. Usually what ends up happening is that those kids rebel and rent “inappropriate” movies or check out forbidden books from...
YA Meets the Real: Fiction and Nonfiction That Take On the World
It began with hot summer nights.It was on hot summer nights — when it was far too hot to go outside, when all I wanted to do was sit under the throttle of a noisy air conditioner — that I got my best reading done as a teenager.There were two...
An Interview with Elizabeth Wein
Elizabeth Wein posing with a WWII-ear Lysander. Photo by Jonathan Habicht, courtesy of the Shuttleworth collection.Author Elizabeth Wein is also a pilot, and her two most recent novels, Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire, feature young female pilots who ferry aircraft for Britain’s Air Transport Auxiliary during World War...
What’s New About New Adult?
Coming of age. Sexuality. Relationships. All are part of the teen experience, and all are part of literature for and about teens. Recently, though, there’s been an uptick in books published for the eighteen-and-up readership — labeled “New Adult” (NA) — that traverse these issues with more drama and explicit...
Beyond The Friends
In 1973 Rosa Guy’s YA novel The Friends [read the original Horn Book review here] electrified the world
of African American children’s books. The Friends was one of the
first novels for teens to tell a distinctly African American story,
highlighting issues of race, class, and identity that black children...
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