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March Madness: Pick Your Favorite July/August Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the May/June covers. Next up are the July/August 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...
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and R. Michelson Galleries have got us covered
The weekend before last, my younger son and I had a splendid time visiting the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and attending the opening reception of the R. Michelson Galleries 34th Annual Children’s Illustration Celebration. We arrived at the Carle just too late to see the Telling Tales &...
Fables, Folktales, and Puppets for the Pandemic
“You don’t know what you don’t know.” This was a phrase one of my previous coworkers liked to use frequently, but I never truly appreciated her words until the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything. Suddenly, toilet paper went from being a banal commodity to a coveted luxury as the stuff became...
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...
An Interview with Regina Hayes
A lifelong bookworm and unapologetic generalist, Regina Hayes, who led Viking Children’s Books from 1982 to 2012, has worked widely across genres in a career marked by intense curiosity; quiet, persistent daring; and a firm grasp of the world in which young people live. Hayes has also brought a refreshing...
Hbook Podcast 1.14 - Special Guest Megan Dowd Lambert
Note! Roger and Siân will be at the Horn Book booth at the Hubbub Festival on Saturday, June 4th from 9 am to 11 am. Come visit us!And now, your regularly scheduled programming...Podcast the fourteenth in which Siân and Roger talk with author, professor, mother, and generally awesome woman Megan...
My Grandfather's Coat
Heart-on-sleeve confession about My Grandfather's Coat: I cannot read this book without crying. Some days even thinking about it makes me weepy. It’s not like anything bad happens (the grandfather doesn’t die!), and the tone is neither wistful nor melancholy. It’s such a joyful book, and then oy vey! The...
Review of My Grandfather's Coat
My Grandfather’s Coatretold by Jim Aylesworth;
illus. by Barbara McClintockPreschool, Primary Scholastic 32 pp.11/14 978-0-439-92545-7 $17.99Revisiting the Yiddish folksong celebrated in Simms Taback’s Caldecott-winning Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, Aylesworth extends its events over four generations, affording McClintock the opportunity to sample dress and households from the early twentieth century...
July kidlit events
Summer reading events abound and many museums offer free admission — make the most of your July with these great events in and around Boston! See our monthly event calendar or click on the event links below for all the details.The Shrewsbury Public Library will host its annual Summer Reading...
June kidlit events in the Boston area
Get out your calendars! Upcoming children's literature events for the Boston metro area:Author Nandini Bajpai will sign her novels Red Turban, White Horse and Starcursed at the Bacon Free Library tonight, Tuesday, June 3rd, at 7:00 pm.Author/illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka (Lunch Lady series, Punk Farm) will celebrate the release of The Platypus...
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