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Week in Review, September 23rd-27th
This week on hbook.com... Five Questions for X. Fang about We Are Definitely Human from Tundra Books sponsored edition of Notes from the Horn Book From the September/October 2024 Horn Book Magazine: The Writers' Page: The Heroes Inside Us: Fighting for Truth, Justice, and the Right to Share...
Review of Black & White in Color
Black & White in Color by Tana Hoban; illus. by the author Preschool Greenwillow 16 pp. 5/24 9780063384743 $10.99 This hybrid accordion board book gives babies the best of both worlds. To many of the iconic images from Hoban’s classic board books Black on White and White on Black (both...
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...
Board Book Roundup: Board Book Adaptations: When Picture Books Get on Board
One of my favorite picture books was re-released in 2023 as a board book: Bee-bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park, illustrated by Ho Baek Lee (Clarion). It’s a faithful, uncut adaptation, but the new cover wisely zooms in on the young protagonist. Often board book versions of time-tested hardcover picture...
How to Read a Wordless Picture Book — The Mary Nagel Sweetser Lecture
How do you read a wordless picture book? You read the pictures — and there are no air quotes around the word read. The pictures are the language and they must be read as carefully as any book with text. It’s a radical decision that an artist makes to not...
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...
Cecily Kaiser Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by When Penguin Workshop sent me a clutch of books from their new RISE imprint in preparation for this interview with Cecily Kaiser, Director of Preschool Publishing and Publishing Director...
Read Kevin Henkes's 2020 Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance Speech at ALA's Virtual Book Award Celebration
When I found out on January 26th that I’d won the Legacy Award, I was ecstatic. However, it didn’t take me long — about an hour! — to start fretting about my speech. That’s just the way I am. I began working on my speech right away and had 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...
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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