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Editorial: Barbara Bader 1927–2021 (September/October 2021)
I was very sorry to learn from her daughter about the death of longtime Horn Book contributor Barbara Bader, who passed away on July 11th in Seattle, just a week before what would have been her ninety-fourth birthday. When I began at the Horn Book in 1996, the Magazine had...
Barbara Bader (1927-2021)
We were saddened to learn from her daughter Emily that Barbara Bader died earlier this week. Barbara was a Horn Book stalwart and one of the "Great Ladies" of our publication. The September/October issue of the Magazine will include an appreciation (and see Kevin Henkes's own, from 2018); and you...
The Book That Changed My Life: Barbara’s Book
I decided when I was a teenager that I wanted to write and illustrate children’s books. I’d always considered myself an artist, but when I was in high school I narrowed my focus. Children’s books would be my life’s work. This decision came to me, in part, because of Barbara...
Happy birthday, dear Barbara!
Happy 90th birthday to children's literature luminary Barbara Bader! In addition to her seminal book American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within and longtime work as children's book editor and eventually co-owner of Kirkus Reviews, she has also been a prolific Horn Book Magazine contributor. Her articles on...
Boots on the ground
Barbara Bader's "Cleveland and Pittsburgh Create a Profession" looks at a time when place really mattered and where you worked was far more allied to what you did than it is today. Certainly, you would learn from your distant colleagues via professional associations and journals, but change in librarianship happened...
Letter to the Editor from Margaret Bush, January/February 2012
September/October 2011 Horn BookBarbara Bader’s series of articles on the “second generation” of prominent librarians in the children’s services field (“Virginia Haviland,” January/February 2011; “Augusta Baker,” May/June 2011; “Mildred Batchelder,” September/October 2011) has been enjoyable to read. For the small number of us who worked with these librarians or knew...
>Barbara talks Tana
>Our frequent contributor Barbara Bader has a guest post up on Greenwillow's blog about the great Tana Hoban, to whom I give full credit for the way in which Whole Foods arranges its fruits and vegetables. BB also paid tribute to Hoban in the Horn Book on the occasion of...
>Kirkus Alive
>Frequent Horn Book contributor and former owner of Kirkus Reviews, Barbara Bader offers her thoughts on the announced shuttering of that review service:Kirkus AliveWithin days, Kirkus will cease publishing after 76 years. A long, sometimes turbulent run, which has meant different things in the fields of children’s and adult books.I...
One Childhood, One World
On an evening in November 1930, during Children’s Book Week, Bertha Mahony arranged a festive Mexican Dinner in honor of the authors and illustrators of the season’s bumper crop of books on a Mexican theme. The most imposing, surely, was René d’Harnoncourt, illustrator of The Painted Pig, who was not...
Realms of Gold and Granite
The Bookshop for Boys and Girls was born, in a twelvemonth, with a pedigree and a distinguished list of patrons. Its role was largely determined from the outset. But life, real life, is also a string of accidents. Bertha Mahony was thirty-three and restless after ten years as a good...
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