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A Note from Me (Mar 19, 2021)
Dear friends: Happy anniversary? This week marks a year now that the Horn Book has been working from home, and I remain grateful and amazed that we’ve done it at all, much less as well as we have, thanks to our determined editors, Our Al, and our coworkers from the...
Editorial: A Book of One's Own (March/April 2021)
March is Women’s History Month, and although we didn’t plan it this way, it turns out that our book review section has a mind of its own, including no fewer than thirteen new nonfiction titles devoted to the achievements of a diverse gallery of women, heroes every one. Historically, they...
Review of Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation
Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation by Candy J. Cooper with Marc Aronson Middle School, High School Bloomsbury 243 pp. g 5/20 978-1-5476-0232-2 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5476-0233-9 $13.29 Imagine: a deadly health crisis hits and the government delays, makes light...
Review of Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism
Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalismby Marc Aronson and Marina BudhosHigh School Holt 294 pp.3/17 978-0-8050-9835-8 $22.99e-book ed. 978-1-2501-0967-5 $10.99This passionate, sprawling, multilayered biography begins like a Robert Capa photograph: right in the middle of the action....
The Writer's Page: What Is Narrative Nonfiction?
It’s been a topsy-turvy time in the education world recently: Common Core and high-stakes tests; then pushback; and now states are revising, revisiting, and renaming their standards. The recently passed ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) encourages this trend toward local choice. But if you look closely at the new standards...
Review of The Skull in the Rock
The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins by Lee R. Berger and Marc AronsonIntermediate National Geographic 64 pp.9/12 978-1-4263-1010-2 $18.95Library ed. 978-1-4263-1053-9 $27.90Paleontologist Berger, working in the fossil-rich hills near Johannesburg,...
Common Ground
As a historian, author, and longtime advocate for nonfiction, there are many things I like about the Common Core English/Language Arts Standards: their focus on historiography and authorial point of view, their mission of training young people to be problem-solvers, their validation of nonfiction-lovers’ passion for the genre. In this...
Five Questions for Marc Aronson
An experienced editor of books for young people (as well as the editor of A Family of Readers by Martha Parravano and me), Marc Aronson is also one of the genre’s most distinguished historians. His Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado won both the Boston Globe–Horn Book...
New Knowledge
Once upon a time, there were two sure signs that a nonfiction book was aimed at young readers: it had illustrations, and the facts, ideas, and insights were securely based on existing adult research. Authors saw themselves as translators whose job was to take the work of adult writers —...
>Sitting at the grownups table
>Over at Nonfiction Matters, Marc Aronson cautions us to think about the larger context in which debates about social responsibility and the Newbery take place: "What I'd like is a set of comments on the Newbery that is not drawn from a survey of four winners, or the latest demographic...
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