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Blowing the Horn: Even by a Millimeter
As I thought about the birthday of this magazine, and what I hope for the future of children’s literature, I wondered about the past. The Horn Book was born in 1924. What else happened in 1924? I followed my usual writing strategy: when in doubt, research. I discovered that the...
Deborah Heiligman Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by After two biographies about two people each (Charles and Emma [Darwin], Vincent and Theo [van Gogh]), Deborah Heiligman now writes about a cast of one hundred — the precise number...
Review of Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of “The Children’s Ship”
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of “The Children’s Ship” by Deborah Heiligman Intermediate, Middle School Godwin/Holt 291 pp. g 10/19 978-1-62779-554-8 $19.99 Nonfiction maestro Heiligman (Charles and Emma, rev. 1/09; Vincent and Theo, rev. 3/17) here tells a riveting wartime survival story. As World War...
The Book That Changed My Life: A Lifelong Journey
When I was a sophomore in college, I read the book that changed my life. I was considering a major in religious studies, and took the required foundation course. On our syllabus were books and articles looking at many different religions from various points of view: theological, psychological, historical, sociological,...
Vincent and Theo: Deborah Heiligman's 2017 BGHB Nonfiction Award Speech
What a joy it is to be in this room with this community.When Vincent van Gogh got his first and essentially only printed review, he was extremely pleased — and also knocked off balance. He’d been uneasy with praise since he was a child, destroying a drawing of a cat...
Reviews of select titles by Deborah Heiligman
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdősby Deborah Heiligman; illus. by LeUyen PhamPrimary Roaring Brook 48 pp.6/13 978-1-59643-307-6 $17.99 gHeiligman and Pham combine their considerable talents in this unique look at the “Magician from Budapest,” nomadic mathematician Paul Erdős (1913–96). A precocious youngster, Paul hates rules....
Not-So-Trivial Pursuits: Wooing the Secret Holders
There is no sure-fire, never-fail road map for research. There certainly is no GPS with a reassuring British voice guiding you when you make a wrong turn (“recalculating…”). Research takes you into unexplored, wild, rocky terrain, and each book teaches you how to research that book. Sure, there are techniques...
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