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Pick Your Favorite May/June Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the March/April covers. Next up are the May/June 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...
Books in the Home: The Boy Ramona
After a particularly hard day at school, my then nine-year-old son, Rory, forlornly and aptly announced, “I think I’m the boy Ramona.”Rory is thirteen now, and he continues to turn to books and their characters for escape and solace as he sets out to slay the particular dragon that he...
Review of Countdown
Countdown [The Sixties Trilogy]by Deborah WilesIntermediate Scholastic 394 pp.5/10 978-0-545-10605-4 $17.99 gEven the weakest history student knows that the world didn’t end during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, yet it can be hard to shrug off the old-time geopolitical jitters in this first-rate novel — especially when its eye-grabbing...
Eating Reading Animals
by Jennifer ArmstrongThe children’s book industry is as full of animals as Noah’s Ark. I found a list of the 150 all-time best-selling hardcover children’s books tabulated as of the end of 2000; fifty-two of them are explicitly “animal books” — books that are about animals or that feature animals...
Generosity: What I Learned from Doreen Rappaport
Doreen Rappaport has given me my entire arsenal of Yiddish terms and helped clarify whether mensch was a compliment or an insult. Doreen has taught me, in a number of knee-quaking moments, that people can disagree vehemently — even profanely — yet still maintain a deep mutual affection for each...
"Harbours That Please Me Like Sonnets": On the Pleasures of Literary Maps
By Julie LariosLet me tell you about a small map I have framed and hanging in my house. It’s from a book published in 1778; across the top of the map, in an elegant hand, it reads “Road from Dublin to Clonegall and Carnew.” Specifically, it shows the portion of...
What Makes a Good Graduation Gift?
Since you know you can count on somebody else to purchase Oh, the Places You’ll Go! and Chicken Soup for the Soul for the new graduate, the Horn Book staff and reviewers thought we might offer some alternative suggestions, based on personal experience — both what we’ve given and what...
Two Potholders: What I Learned from Lynne Rae Perkins
by Virginia DuncanI am the proud owner of two potholders handmade by Lynne Rae Perkins. One of them is quilted; the other, woven. I adore them. They are the kind of potholders that beg to be used — both beautiful and utilitarian. But I can’t cook. I was one of...
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