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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...
Banned Books Week 2016
It’s Banned Books Week, "an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community; librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types,...
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...
Reviews of selected books by Marla Frazee
Roller Coasterby Marla Frazee; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Harcourt 32 pp.5/03 0-15-204554-6 $16.00Once a roller coaster is all loaded up, and the operator releases the brake to start the cars slowly chugging up the first hill, that’s that. “Now it is too late for anyone to change their mind,”...
Trouble Spots: Troubling White People
Summer. 1954. I was fifteen.At that time, the television stations in Nashville, Tennessee, came on the air at four in the afternoon and stopped broadcasting at eleven. One channel began its broadcast day by pointing a camera into the alley behind the studio, a place known as “Art Lane Alley.”...
"Alive": A Poem
Dear Abby, said someone from Oregon,I am having trouble with my boyfriend’s attachmentto an ancient gallon of milk still fullin his refrigerator. I told him it’s me or the milk,is this unreasonable? Dear Carolyn,my brother won’t speak to mebecause fifty years ago I whispereda monkey would kidnap him in the...
What Makes a Good Banned Book?
Max imagined himself into the land of the wild things, and the censors said NO. Mickey fell out of his clothes in full-frontal view, and the censors said NO. When Judy Blume gave Margaret her period, gave Tony Miglione wet dreams, and answered Deenie’s questions about masturbation, the censors said...
Field Notes: And Stay Out of Trouble: Narratives for Black Urban Children
Back when I taught fifth grade at an elite independent school, we used to laugh that all the children’s books we knew prepared our students for waking up one morning to find that they were required to save the world — which perhaps they were and one day would be....
Review of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Where the Mountain Meets the Moonby Grace Lin; illus. by the author282 pp. Little 6/09 isbn 978-0-316-11427-1 $16.99(Intermediate)Minli lives with her father, a storyteller and dreamer, and her disapproving mother in a poor village in the shadow of Fruitless Mountain. An encounter with a goldfish peddler prompts Minli to seek...
A Response to Sharon G. Flake
What's odd about the direction this discussion has taken is that I agree with Sharon Flake about almost everything. Flake points out that she and many other readers of every race are much more compelled by stories of triumph over immediate, real-world trouble than by distant fantasy or lighter fare....
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