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Editorial: Some Magazine! (September/October 2024)
For this centennial-year entry, with its mini-theme of middle grade, the Horn Book editors put our heads together to brainstorm cover art. We came up with a few ideas, in conjunction with our designers, and even mocked them up. And then came Shoshana Flax’s suggestion of Charlotte and friends —...
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...
Horn Book Magazine articles in the Virtual History Exhibit
Hazel Rochman on multicultural children’s literature, Jon Scieska on hard to pronounce names, Lois Lenski on Christmas, and Eleanor Cameron on why Roald Dahl is bad for civilization — the range of Horn Book articles has always been impressively broad. Discover more for yourself in this sampling from our archives, arranged in reverse chronological order of publication....
Little House in the Big 'Burbs
Little House fans, get your mortgage pre-approvals ready. The home of Rose Wilder Lane (Laura's daughter, as if I had to tell you!), in my hometown of Danbury, CT, is on the market.Four BR, 3.5 bath, 3505 sq. ft, 2.03 acres: asking a very reasonable $439K.Charles Ives lived in Danbury....
Reviews of select books by Marc Simont
The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss, illus. by Marc Simont, Harper, 1949The author of The Carrot Seed and Bears has once again demonstrated her ability to tell a story in the fewest possible words. Her text and Marc Simont’s fine pictures tell of the animals in the woods running because...
Reviews of select books by Maurice Sendak
A Hole Is to Dig written by Ruth Krauss, illus. by Maurice Sendak, Harper, 1952Entirely original in approach and content is this "first book of first definitions" in which Miss Krauss, with the help of children themselves, gives us such gems as "a seashell is to hear the sea"; "cats...
>With churned butter
>Am reading @HalfPintIngalls' (aka Wendy McClure's) really engrossing The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie, and I find myself unseasonably wishing for Laura's gingerbread....
>That's what SHE said
>Fuse #8 has revealed the final result of her prodigious survey of what we (meaning those of us who read Fuse and voted in her poll) think are the top 100 novels for middle-grade readers. Not a big surprise there at #1, but since the Horn Book is infamous for...
Horn Book Reminiscence from Isabel Wilner
From Isabel WilnerMy acquaintance with the Horn Book began when I entered Carnegie Library School in Pittsburgh in September 1944. Our classrooms were located in the library itself, and it was there that I discovered bound volumes of the Horn Book, which I enjoyed reading for my personal pleasure whenever...
Old guest book entries
Here are just a few of the guest book entries from the first version of the exhibit spanning 1999 to 2005. We'd love to hear from you on our current guest book. 7/14/99 Gayle Baar This is a wonderful addition to your website. I am planning...
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