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Publishers' Preview: Fall 2022: Five Questions for Tae Keller
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2022 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2022, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by In Mihi Ever...
Publishers' Preview: Middle-Grade Fiction: Five Questions for Tae Keller
This interview originally appeared in the May/June 2022 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Middle-Grade Fiction, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by In Jennifer Chan...
After the Call: Nothing Short of Life-Changing
In 2021, "the call" was a Zoom call. Photo: Tae Keller. As soon as the 2021 Youth Media Awards were announced, I started hearing from other writers, from friends, from family: The Newbery will change your life. This felt fairly accurate, considering I hadn’t slept for thirty-six hours, I had...
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Review of Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae KellerIntermediate, Middle School Random 288 pp. g4/22 978-0-593-31052-6 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-593-31053-3 $20.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-31054-0 $10.99Twelve-year-old narrator Mallory is distressed to learn that her neighbor and sometime-friend Jennifer Chan has disappeared. Having recently moved to town (deemed “Nowhereville” Florida by Mallory), Jennifer—who is Chinese...
2020 in Pictures and Words
The last time we sat down to put virtual pen to communal paper for our annual “year in review” article (“A Year with Words and Pictures — but No ALA Annual,” July/August 2020 Horn Book), it was spring of 2020. We had been working from home for a few weeks,...
Profile of 2021 Newbery Medal winner Tae Keller
Tae Keller holding her "heart story." [Photo courtesy of Tae Keller.] Tae Keller believes in the power of stories. In When You Trap a Tiger, she explores the stories that we tell ourselves — the ones that shape our identities. What are the stories we cling to and what are...
2021 Newbery Medal Acceptance by Tae Keller
Oh my goodness. The Newbery speech. This is a little intimidating. I’ve spent the past months wondering what, exactly, a Newbery speech should contain. I wondered if I should mention that this all feels a little impossible. I wondered if I should talk about how I called my family as...
Review of When You Trap a Tiger
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller Intermediate, Middle School Random House 298 pp. g 1/20 978-1-5247-1570-0 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-1572-4 $9.99 Korean American middle schooler Lily thinks she has to take on a magical tiger in order to save her beloved Halmoni (grandmother), but the truth is much more complicated....
When You Trap a Tiger: Tae Keller's 2020 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Speech
Thank you so much for this award. I am so honored and grateful. Receiving it is surreal, because the fact that this book even exists is still surreal. To be honest, I was afraid to write it. I almost didn’t write it. Many times, I nearly quit. It felt too...
BGHB 2020: When You Trap a Tiger
Fiction and Poetry week continues in our first-ever, month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration. Today, judge Leo Landry introduces the 2020 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Book When You Trap a Tiger: The 2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented to Tae...
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