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Blowing the Horn: My Grandmother, the Horn Book, and Me
Betty Flocken with Elizabeth Wein in 1968. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Wein. In 1972, when I was seven years old, I lived in Jamaica. My Pennsylvanian grandmother, Betty Flocken, sent me a new book every month. When Beverly Cleary’s Ellen Tebbits arrived, I read it in a single afternoon. That...
Review of American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky
American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein Middle School, High School Putnam 384 pp. 1/24 9780593323984 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780593324004 $11.99 Smith (The Blossom and the Firefly, rev. 3/20) and Wein (Stateless, rev. 3/23) introduce readers...
Review of Stateless
Stateless by Elizabeth WeinMiddle School, High School Little, Brown 400 pp.3/23 9780316591249 $18.99e-book ed. 9780316591256 $10.99Wein’s compulsively readable murder mystery/thriller/romance takes place in Europe in 1937. An airplane race for young aviators has been arranged as an effort to promote peace under the shadow of Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco. Seventeen-year-old...
Review of The Enigma Game
The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein Middle School, High School Little, Brown 426 pp. g 5/20 978-1-368-01258-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-368-01651-3 $9.99 In this companion novel to Code Name Verity (rev. 5/12) and its prequel The Pearl Thief (rev. 5/17), and featuring characters from both, Wein takes her turn at...
BGHB at 50: Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, established in 1967, we will be publishing a series of appreciations of BGHB winners and honorees from the past. Further installments will appear in the Magazine and on hbook.com/bghb throughout 2017.Here is a conversation I had on the...
Five questions for Elizabeth Wein
Photo: David HoAs two-time Boston Globe–Horn Book honoree Elizabeth Wein reminds us below, a page-turner isn't necessarily about plot twists and cliffhangers. For more books you can't put down, see our 2016 Summer Reading recommendations.1. Your books give readers the impulse to both turn pages quickly (what's going to happen?!)...
Review of Black Dove, White Raven
Black Dove, White Ravenby Elizabeth WeinMiddle School, High School Hyperion 353 pp.3/15 978-1-4231-8310-5 $17.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-4847-0780-7 $9.99Wein’s newest novel, set in Ethiopia in the mid-1930s, is in good company with her much-lauded Code Name Verity (rev. 5/12) and Rose Under Fire (rev. 11/13). Em (white) and Teo (black) have...
Rose Under Fire: Author Elizabeth Wein's 2014 BGHB Fiction Honor Speech
Greetings to Roger Sutton, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award judges, and everyone at the awards ceremony, from Elizabeth Wein in Warsaw, Poland. Between you and me today stretches a distance of over four thousand miles, and I do “mind the gap.”I am both grateful and utterly stunned that Rose Under...
An Interview with Elizabeth Wein
Elizabeth Wein posing with a WWII-ear Lysander. Photo by Jonathan Habicht, courtesy of the Shuttleworth collection.Author Elizabeth Wein is also a pilot, and her two most recent novels, Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire, feature young female pilots who ferry aircraft for Britain’s Air Transport Auxiliary during World War...
Code Name Verity: Author Elizabeth Wein's 2012 Fiction Honor Speech
As this year’s Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction winners show, we’re in the vanguard of a kind of golden age of historical fiction. We’re finally escaping the image that anything “historical” is remote and finished. Contemporary historical fiction brings the past into the present and makes it relevant.Ultimately, no matter how...
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