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March Madness: Pick Your Favorite September/October Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the July/August covers. Next up are the September/October 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...
Reviews of Louise Erdrich's Birchbark House series
The Birchbark Houseby Louise Erdrich ; illus. by the authorIntermediate Hyperion 235 pp.5/99 0-7868-0300-2 $14.99 gLibrary edition ISBN 0-7868-2241-4 $15.49With a title and structure that inescapably recall Laura Ingalls Wilder’s family stories, Louise Erdrich here paints a detailed portrait of Ojibwa life in the mid-nineteenth century. Seven-year-old Omakayas...
Reviews of Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy
The Hunger Games [Hunger Games]by Suzanne CollinsMiddle School, High School Scholastic 374 pp.10/08 978-0-439-02348-1 $17.99Survivor meets “The Lottery” as the author of the popular Underland Chronicles returns with what promises to be an even better series. The United States is no more, and the new Capitol, high in the...
Review of Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan Tender Morsels435 pp. Knopf 10/08 isbn 978-0-375-84811-7 $16.99 gLibrary edition isbn 978-0-375-94811-4 $19.99(High School)Raped repeatedly by her father and, after his death, brutally gang-raped by village youths, fifteen-year-old Liga determines to kill herself and her baby. Instead of dying, the two enter a parallel world; a place without...
An Interview with Frances Foster
In the September/October 2003 Horn Book Magazine, Leonard S. Marcus interviewed longtime editor Frances Foster, head of Frances Foster Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Leonard S. Marcus: How did you come to be a children’s book editor?Frances Foster: I came to New York on the rebound, following a...
The Other Half
by Diana Wynne JonesThis is not about my own school. I prefer to forget that. This is about how a large part of the job description when you write for children is the remorseless visiting of schools. When I was young and strong, I was required to do this almost...
Stories Out of School: Silent Voices
One of the ironies of racial segregation was that it prevented the best and the brightest in the black community from sharing their intelligence and creative gifts with the wider society. And so in the 1940s and 1950s many of those best and brightest black minds in America taught in...
Independence Day: What Makes a Good First-Day-of-School Book?
According to the old adage, death and taxes are the two things in life we can’t avoid. Children know about a third: school. In the United States, youngsters of a certain age must attend school, receiving state-mandated instruction at home or in public, private, boarding, or parochial institutions. School is...
Not an Essay
[A special guest article by Kadir Nelson, originally published in the September/October 2008 issue of Horn Book Magazine.]As a kid, I prided myself on being a good student. However, it wasn’t until my sophomore year in high school that I realized I wasn’t really being challenged in my classes, which were...
Let's Call Her Mrs. Shropsharp
by Jeff KinneyI attended an all-boys’ high school, and it could be an unforgiving place. If you were so unfortunate as to drop your lunch tray in the cafeteria, you could count on a ten-minute invective-filled harangue from the entire student body. The law of the jungle ruled in the...
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