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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...
New for New Readers: How to Publish (What I Think Are) Great Books for New Readers
Sometime in 2017, I got a call from Bernice Myers, a mid-twentieth-century illustrator of nonfiction picture books and author-illustrator of books for new readers such as Not THIS Bear! Bernice, who hadn’t published a new book for many years, had a story for me, and of course I was happy...
Holiday High Notes 2020
’Twas the holiday issue, and all across Boston... the remote-working Horn Bookers were writing reviews of recommended new and reissued Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas books. (See also Marjorie Ingall’s article “What Makes a Good Hanukkah Book?” in the November/December 2020 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.) Jack and Santa...
Horn BOO! 2019
Welcome to our annual roundup of (not-always) scary seasonal stories, where you'll find, mostly, more pumpkins and puns than poltergeists. Happy Halloween! Mr. Pumpkin’s Tea Party by Erin Barker; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Blue Manatee 32 pp. g 9/19 978-1-936669-77-6 $17.99 Handsome china dishes and raised pinkies accentuate a fancy...
Table of Contents: September/October 2019 Horn Book Magazine
Cover art from Click, Clack, Boo! Illustration © 2013 by Betsy Lewin. Features "Considering the Criteria" by Vicky Smith "Black Kids Camp, Too…Don't They?" by Michelle H. Martin Columns Editorial "My Friend Susan Bloom" by Roger Sutton Happy Anniversary "It's Perfectly Normal" by Kitty Flynn ...
Preview September/October 2019 Horn Book Magazine
Cover art from Click, Clack, Boo!: A Tricky Treat by Doreen Cronin, illustration copyright 2013 by Betsy Lewin. Kirkus children’s editor Vicky Smith considers book discussion guidelines for the twenty-first century. “Black Kids Camp Too…Don’t They?”: Michelle H. Martin on why #WeNeedDiverseOutdoorBooks. Kitty Flynn wishes a happy twenty-fifth anniversary to Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley’s It’s Perfectly Normal. Cathryn M. Mercier, director...
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...
Earth Day 2019
Today (as every day should be!) is Earth Day, and this year's theme is: "Protect Our Species."The books below celebrate our precious planet, educate about the crises it faces, and offer age-appropriate models for environmental activism. The list includes both fiction and nonfiction titles for a range of ages, all...
August 2018 Back-to-School Horn Book Herald: Picture Books
Lena's Shoes Are Nervous: A First-Day-of-School Dilemmaby Keith Calabrese; illus. by Juana MedinaAtheneum 40 pp.7/18 978-1-5344-0894-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-0895-1 $10.99Lena isn't nervous to start kindergarten…but her shoes are. Lena enlists her headband (who is "a good listener") to talk to them, and, with fears assuaged and a bit of reverse...
Earth Day 2018
This year's observation of the annual Earth Day takes place on April 22. The campaign focus for Earth Day 2018 is "End Plastic Pollution."The books below celebrate our precious planet, educate about the crises it faces (including plastic pollution), and offer age-appropriate models for environmental activism. The list includes both...
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