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I just want to start by saying the real award for me is to be honored by all of you. To be in a room full of people who have fought the fight and have done the work that embodies what the Coretta Scott King Book Awards represent is humbling....
I have been writing and telling stories my entire adult life. My first love was journalism — what I consider to be truth-telling. Then I fell in love with spoken word poetry — what I consider to be testifying. The need to tell the truth and to testify has always...
“Did you know you’re the first Black woman to win the Caldecott Medal?” The morning of the American Library Association Youth Media Awards, my agent, Carrie Hannigan, called to ask me this. We had spoken the night before to celebrate, so this call felt more like a briefing. She was...
My journey to you today started in first grade, when my teacher Mrs. Wright, an impossibly kind woman with round-framed glasses and a short brown bob, told us one day that we were going to write our own books. I was seven years old. This made no sense at all,...
The Mango Tree / La mata de mango by Edel Rodriguez; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Abrams 48 pp. 6/24 9781419745867 $18.99 e-book ed. 9798887073736 $17.09 In this wordless picture book, two boys make a mango tree (or mata de mango) their hideout — napping, eating juicy mangos, and...
Special Issue: ALA Awards. Cover art by Vashti Harrison...stop by booth 1638 at ALA to help complete the puzzle! “The Year in Words and Pictures.” The Horn Book editors discuss the children’s book landscape and the books that pushed boundaries this year. Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Children's Literature Legacy Award acceptance...
Illustration by Emily Gravett from Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge. The following books will receive starred reviews in the July/August 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Heatwave by Lauren Redniss (Random House Studio/Random) The Mango Tree / La mata de mango by Edel Rodriguez (Abrams) Bye Land, Bye Sea by René...