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March Madness: Pick Your Favorite July/August Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the May/June covers. Next up are the July/August 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...
On Megan Dowd Lambert's "Dave the Potter and Stevie the Reader" (from 2011)
Megan Dowd Lambert served on the 2011 Caldecott committee, which recognized Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave as a Caldecott Honor Book (that year's winner was A Sick Day for Amos McGee). Megan had been hesitant to share the book with her younger children: "I think perhaps I shied away...
Reviews of selected books by Patrick Jennings
Putnam and Pennyroyalby Patrick Jennings; illus. by Jon J MuthIntermediate Scholastic 165 pp.11/99 0-439-07965-9 $15.95From the beginning of his narrative, it’s evident that Cora Lee’s Uncle Frank is possessed by a contrary streak. Cora always spends New Year’s with Frank, fishing in one of Arizona’s rare ponds, because he won’t...
Dave the Potter and Stevie the Reader
One of the things I love best about my work in children’s literature is how seamlessly it melds with my life as a mother. When I was elected to serve on the 2011 Caldecott committee, I wrote to family and friends, saying, “Thousands of picture books will come my way...
Profile of 2001 Newbery Medal winner Richard Peck
by Marc TalbertThe Call.There are many great stories about Newbery Award–winning authors receiving The Call. The Call can come at any time on that fateful day during the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting. It is almost always a surprise. It is almost always received with an awkward and unrehearsed combination...
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