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The Early Years
“In the great green room / there was a telephone / and a red balloon...” “The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind / and another...” “I went all the way to Africa / in a dream one night / I crossed over the ocean...
Ashley Bryan and Jerry Pinkney: Unfettered Artists Sharing Their Talents, Visions, and Joys
Two revered illustrators: Ashley Bryan (left; courtesy of Sandy Campbell) and Jerry Pinkney (right; photo: Robyn Pforr Ryan). Ashley Bryan (1923–2022) and Jerry Pinkney (1939–2021) are two of our most revered illustrators of children’s books. Each was prolific, with more than seventy books for Bryan and over one hundred for...
A Conversation with Jason Chin
Photo: Deirdre Gill. Jason Chin is the winner of the 2022 Randolph Caldecott Medal for Watercress (written by Andrea Wang; published by Neal Porter Books/ Holiday House). Martha V. Parravano interviewed Jason via email for Calling Caldecott. Calling Caldecott: Congratulations on winning the Caldecott! So well earned. What have been some...
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...
Caterpillar Man: Remembering Eric Carle
The artist in his studio, circa 2015. Photo (c) The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. The news of Eric Carle’s (1929–2021) death last May sparked a worldwide outpouring of affection from four generations of readers who were moved to recall the joy his books had given them over...
Tricia Elam Walker and Ekua Holmes Talk 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 Cousins and friends growing up together in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Tricia Elam Walker and Ekua Holmes celebrate community in Dream Street. Roger Sutton: It looks to me like this book...
East Asian intergenerational picture books
Like Boston Globe–Horn Book honor book Watercress written by Andrea Wang and illustrated by Jason Chin, these recent picture books center warm-hearted, culturally specific, intergenerational East Asian, Asian American, and Asian Canadian family relationships. For older readers, see also AAPI stories and voices from April’s issue of Notes; and more...
Rosemary Wells and Jerry Pinkney Talk 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 Once upon a time, Rosemary Wells’s great-great-grandfather made a rocking chair, now long lost and in need of a story. With Jerry Pinkney (and I can’t believe these two...
Lighting the Candle: What Words and Art Can Do
This is a joyful memory, lo prometo, though it’s one connected to suffering as well. I am a writer and walk in this world with gratitude and purpose because of my mother, Isabel María Valdivieso Vexler Brown. In teaching me how to be an artist, she taught me how to...
What Makes a Good Hanukkah Picture Book?
Let’s say, for some reason, you wanted to read the worst Hanukkah picture book ever written. Why would you wish to do this? Well, such a book could serve as a fine blueprint for how not to write a lousy Hanukkah book and/or how not to choose a lousy Hanukkah...
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