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Horn Book Podcast
In 2007 and 2008 the Horn Book had a (more-or-less) monthly podcast. The Horn Book’s new podcast aired in 2016 and 2017, hosted by Roger Sutton (editor in chief at the time) and Siân Gaetano (then Guide editorial assistant). We are happy to make these episodes available once again here. Our podcasts featured...
Blowing the Horn: A Gathering of Excellence
M. T. Anderson: The first time I went to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, I was overwhelmed. I was a young man with only a couple of novels out, which had sold only a handful of copies, mainly to wincing relatives. This was back when YA was still considered the...
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Review of Elf Dog & Owl Head
Elf Dog & Owl Head by M. T. Anderson; illus. by Junyi WuIntermediate Candlewick 240 pp.4/23 9781536222814 $18.99Clay and his family are suffering the accumulated tensions of a “global sickness” shutdown. Online school, isolation from friends, financial worries, too much togetherness—Clay needs escape, and he gets it via a charming...
Review of The Daughters of Ys
The Daughters of Ys by M. T. Anderson; illus. by Jo Rioux Middle School First Second/Roaring Brook 208 pp. g 8/20 978-1-62672-878-3 $24.99 e-book ed. 978-1-25079-036-1 $11.99 In graphic novel form, Anderson (Yvain, rev. 3/17; The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, rev. 9/18) and Rioux (The Golden Twine) tell the traditional...
Review of The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurgeby M. T. Anderson; illus. by Eugene YelchinMiddle School Candlewick 530 pp. g9/18 978-0-7636-9822-5 $24.99Historian and diplomat Brangwain Spurge has been sent from Elfland to the neighboring goblin kingdom to return a precious artifact. On the surface, it’s a gesture of goodwill to a...
The Book That Changed My Life: Oh, What a Circus
Dr. Seuss sketched the spiritual background of my childhood — particularly in books such as If I Ran the Circus, If I Ran the Zoo, and On Beyond Zebra! As a kid, I loved weird beasts, and each of these books featured a menagerie of goggle-eyed, fanged, tufty mammals with...
Review of Landscape with Invisible Hand
Landscape with Invisible Handby M. T. AndersonMiddle School, High School Candlewick 149 pp. g9/17 978-0-7636-8789-2 $16.99Parable, satire, dystopic sci-fi — Anderson’s take on a near future in which alien “vuvv” have colonized America’s economy, land, and airspace has so many shiveringly close resemblances to the contemporary world that it might...
Review of Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
Yvain: The Knight of the Lionby M. T. Anderson; illus. by Andrea OffermannMiddle School, High School Candlewick 134 pp.3/17 978-0-7636-5939-4 $19.99 gThe storyline of this graphic novel retelling of a twelfth-century epic poem is straightforward enough: after slaying Sir Esclados, Sir Yvain, a young knight-errant...
Massachusetts Book Awards 2016
On Tuesday, December 6th, I was lucky to be the plus-one, with amazing school librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro, at the sixteenth annual Massachusetts Book Awards ceremony at the State House, in recognition of "significant works of fiction, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ArchiveImages\/HB\nonfiction, poetry, and children’s/young adult literature published by Commonwealth residents or about Massachusetts...
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Author M. T. Anderson's 2016 BGHB NF Honor Speech
This book is a hymn, I hope, to a composer I love and to the power of music in general. It began when my interest was piqued by the idea of a symphony considered so important that it was transferred onto microfilm like some dossier in a spy novel and...
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