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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...
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...
Reviews of 2020 Mind the Gap Award winners
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. Our annual Mind the Gap Awards pay tribute to our favorite books that didn’t win. Here’s how we reviewed our 2020 winners. A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein; illus....
Fanfare 2019 Annotations
Welcome to Fanfare, our choices of the best books of 2019. I believe we first published this list in 1939, recommending the best of 1938. Many of the titles are now mostly forgotten (or notorious: see The Five Chinese Brothers), but look: there is Andy and the Lion, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, and The Hobbit....
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...
Laughter and Resistance: Humor as a Weapon in the Age of Trump
We could all use a laugh right now, especially children. As the Southern Poverty Law Center’s November 2016 report “The Trump Effect: The Impact of the Nation’s Presidential Campaign on Our Schools” has documented, the candidacy (and now presidency) of Donald Trump has resulted in a sharp rise in bullying...
Horn Book Fanfare 1938 to present
Chosen annually by our editors, Fanfare is The Horn Book Magazine’s selection of the best children’s and young adult books of the year. Here is a searchable page listing all Fanfare titles back to 1938. Jump to 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980...
Horn Book Magazine Cover Gallery
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...
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