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March Madness: Pick Your Favorite September/October Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the July/August covers. Next up are the September/October 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...
Review of Room for Everyone
Room for Everyone by Naaz Khan; illus. by Mercè López Preschool, Primary Dlouhy/Atheneum 40 pp. g 11/21 978-1-5344-3139-3 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-3140-9 $10.99 Young Musa and his sister hop aboard the daladala that will drive them from town to the Zanzibar shore. The vehicle is already crowded; nevertheless, when the...
Past Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners
2023 Fiction & Poetry Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group) Honor Books: Promise Boys by Nick Brooks (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group); When Clouds Touch Us by Thanhhà Lại (Harper/HarperCollins Children’s Books) Nonfiction Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Graphix/Scholastic...
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...
2019 Caldecott Medal Acceptance by Sophie Blackall
Hello, hello, hello!Members of the 2019 Caldecott committee, my agents, my family, fellow authors and illustrators, publishers, librarians, beacons of the community—As the 2019 Caldecott committee gathered around a phone, early on a cold January morning in Seattle, I was having dinner in sweltering Myanmar, trying not to picture them....
Editorial: Everybody's Talking
Along with our perpetual mission concisely originated in Bertha Mahony Miller’s first editorial in October 1924, to “blow the horn for fine books for boys and girls,” each of The Horn Book Magazine’s seven editors in chief has had to address the world around her or him. Bertha guided us...
What Makes a Good Math Storybook?
Owen giggles with glee as he pokes his eighteen-month-old fingers through the caterpillar holes; Ashley, age five, and Ryan, six, diligently work to stuff as many lima beans as possible into a child’s mitten;Matthew and Haley carefully measure the perimeter of their fifth-grade classroom while their classmates are online researching...
Horn Book Magazine - January/February 2015
Table of ContentsFeaturesHorn Book FanfareOur choices for the best books of 2014.Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Gallery 2014Celebrating the year's winners and honor books.ColumnsEditorial"Why #WNDB" by Roger Sutton"We Need Diverse Books" is more than just a hashtag.A Second Look"The Planet of Junior Brown" by Barbara BaderDoes a groundbreaking book from the...
Horn Book reviews of Caldecott Medal winners, 1970-1979
1970WILLIAM STEIG, Author-Illustrator Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Windmill/Simon)Sylvester the young donkey was a pebble collector; one day he found a flaming red stone, shiny and round — and quite unaccountably able to grant wishes. Overjoyed, Sylvester was planning to share his magic with his family when "a mean, hungry...
Picture Books, Art and Illustration
From Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books, 1966-1975edited by Lee Kingman, published by The Horn Book, 1975Ten years, ten books. Ten books that, one by one, have been put forth as the best of the year’s picture books, by inference the best that America could produce.This is the burden of the...
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