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Blowing the Horn: Our World of Books
My son John, who is not only a voracious reader but has also had the opportunity to meet many writers, librarians, editors, and publishers, said to me once, “You know, Mom, how lucky you are. You get to work with the best people in the world.” I do know that,...
After the Call: The Newbery's Gifts
Two-time winner Katherine Paterson (far right) with her family, celebrating her 1981 Newbery for Jacob Have I Loved. Photo courtesy of Katherine Paterson. Most awards are given soon after or even when they’re announced, but winners of the Newbery Medal are told on a morning in January and have until...
Review of Giving Thanks: Poems, Prayers, and Praise Songs of Thanksgiving
Giving Thanks: Poems, Prayers, and Praise Songs of Thanksgiving edited by Katherine Paterson; illus. by Pamela DaltonAll Ages Handprint/Chronicle 56 pp.10/13 978-1-4521-1339-5 $18.99Paterson divides this collection of brief prayers, poems, and meditations into thanks for food, life, spirit, and community. Her selection is catholic and spans the centuries,...
A Profile of Katherine Paterson
Katherine the storyteller.If Scheherazade and Katherine Paterson went tale-to-tale in a
storytelling contest, Katherine would be the one to keep her head. The Arabian maiden may have managed to stave off death for 1001 nights, but do the math: that’s less than three years.Katherine has been telling stories for forty...
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Intricate, water-colored paper cuts make for an old-fashioned delight in Katherine Paterson’s reimagining of Saint Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Creatures. I was initially struck by the use of black—an unusual choice in a picture book. The black allows the intricacies of the Scherenschnitte (the name for this type...
>March/April Horn Book Magazine
>The March/April issue of the Horn Book Magazine, dedicated to Katherine Paterson, is now out and, selectively, up....
An Interview with Katherine Paterson
cover art by Brian SelznickAs a member of the selection committee, I knew last fall that Katherine Paterson was going to be our second National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and my partner Richard and I (along with our dog Buster) went up to Vermont to visit with Katherine and...
>January Notes
>The new issue of Notes from the Horn Book, featuring an interview (excerpted from the forthcoming March/April issue of the Magazine) with our new Ambassador, Katherine Paterson, is out. Also: stormy fiction, picture book bios, animal tales and the Five Best Books by Katherine Paterson According to Me....
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