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Pick Your Favorite May/June Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the March/April covers. Next up are the May/June covers. Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your favorites in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here. Click on any...
Happy birthday, Harry!
Happy birthday to one of kidlit's most beloved and backlashed big-name characters, Harry Potter! (He'd be thirty-nine this year. Holy hippogriff.) The Horn Book has had a lot to say — good, bad, and damn, these books are long — about The Boy Who Lived over the years. Here's a...
Horn Book Magazine Covers
Randolph Caldecott was The Horn Book Magazine‘s first — and for decades only — cover artist. Then in 1985 another picture book master, Maurice Sendak, took over the task for a few issues, leading the way for a whole new crop of talented contributors. Much of their work is on view...
Horn Book Magazine Cover Gallery
Randolph Caldecott was The Horn Book Magazine's first -- and for decades only -- cover artist. Then in 1985 another picture book master, Maurice Sendak, took over the task for a few issues, leading the way for a whole new crop of talented contributors. Much of their work is on...
The Horn Book Magazine -- May/June 2012
Table of Contents FeaturesRoger Sutton10What Hath Harry Wrought?How Harry Potter changed children’s publishing.Uma Krishnaswami19No Joke!Yes, multicultural fiction can be funny.Barbara Bader27Cleveland and Pittsburgh Create a ProfessionEarly children’s librarianship in two cities of the industrial heartland.Jane Yolen35A Children’s Books PoeticsPithy takes on seven iconic authors.Rebecca Donnelly41Hitting the Ground of JoyFinding shared...
Preview May/June 2012 Horn Book Magazine
Roger Sutton’s “What Hath Harry Wrought?” examines children’s publishing, post-Harry Potter. Uma Krishnaswami calls for more humor in multicultural children’s literature. Barbara Bader on the birth of children’s librarianship in Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Jane Yolen’s original poems capture the essence of classic children’s book authors. Rebecca Donnelly muses on what...
Excerpt from The Chocolate Games
Illustration: Jose-Luis Olivares“Hi, Mum! Hi, Pop!” Mike squeaks as he hops from the screen onto the table. “Look at me! I’m the first boy sent by television!”Mrs. Teavee shrieks. “You’re an inch tall! Oh, my sweet boy!”“Sweet?” Grandpa Joe whispers to me. “He blew Violet to bits!”True, Mike did chuck...
Komm, süßer Tod
Picture books about death typically involve wrinkly grandmas or unfortunate pets, rehashed platitudes and sensitive toddlers smiling up to the stars. Not so in Wolf Erlbruch’s Duck, Death and the Tulip (Gecko Press, September), just published in English for the first time.Wolf Erlbruch has won many awards—including the Hans Christian...
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