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Horn Book Reminiscences: A Boston Publisher Looks Back
My connection with the Horn Book dates back to the regime of Ethel and Paul Heins. Perhaps because I was so young at the time, it seemed like the Red Sea parted whenever they arrived — always together, inseparable — at any children’s book gathering. Though they were small, tweedy,...
All About Awards
The mini-theme of this issue, part of our HB100 series of mini-themes, is awards — and the Horn Book’s relationship to awards over the past century is a big topic. Throughout the decades, the Horn Book has noted trends, published thoughtful and critical articles, presented eye-opening and personal profiles of...
Blowing the Horn: Postscript
Susan Cooper. Photo: Benjamin Flythe. I’ve been here before. Long ago, in October 1974, when I was thirty-eight years old, the handsome fiftieth-anniversary issue of The Horn Book Magazine ended with a little two-page tribute from me. It was titled “A Love Letter to the Horn Book.” And it did tell...
Blowing the Horn: A Doorway In
To think that I have been reading The Horn Book Magazine for half of its lifetime! As a sophomore at the University at Albany about fifty years ago, I talked my way into a course in children’s literature offered by the graduate school of library science. The professor perched nimbly...
Three Editors in Chief: A Conversation
Earlier this year, the Horn Book's eighth (and current) editor in chief, Elissa Gershowitz, spoke with longtime editors in chief numbers six and seven: Anita Silvey (from 1985–1995) and Roger Sutton (from 1996–2021). Currently an adjunct professor at Simmons University, Silvey is an author (Everything I Need to Know I...
Horn Book trivia
Q: Who likes trivia? A: Horn Book editors do! (And we hope you do too!) As part of our centennial celebration in 2024, we'll be quizzing our readers on Horn Book trivia every Tuesday. We plan to dig through the Magazine's archives for some "fun facts" through the decades that...
Field Notes: I Gave My Life to Books: A Journey Through the World of Children's Literature
Maurice Sendak once said, “As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them.” That’s how I have always felt as a teacher and parent too. I began my teaching career in Newark, New Jersey,...
In Memoriam: Jill Paton Walsh (1937–2020)
It’s a trick of the human mind that we rarely remember experiences in sequence. Rather, our brain does something scattershot, collaged. When emotion inflects memory, as happens at the death of a friend, it can be a struggle to organize the onrush of the past into narrative coherence. The news...
R.I.P. Jill Paton Walsh
We're sad to have lost Jill Paton Walsh yesterday. I only met her once, at a 1990s CLNE gathering at Radcliffe, but Jill was a longtime friend of the Horn Book dating back to the 1970s, when Paul and Ethel Heins were running things here, and they and Jill and...
What is Kathy Ishizuka Wearing?
Kathy Ishizuka is my opposite number at SLJ, (and you should go look at all the great Covid-19 resources they are offering). I don't know if she's archived her selfie series of "Tall Guys Next to Kathy" but I'm in there. For working at home, she sports an insouciant gracenote...
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