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My journey to you today started in first grade, when my teacher Mrs. Wright, an impossibly kind woman with round-framed glasses and a short brown bob, told us one day that we were going to write our own books. I was seven years old. This made no sense at all,...
Illustration (c) 2024 by Selina Alko. From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may...
Susan Cooper. Photo: Benjamin Flythe. I’ve been here before. Long ago, in October 1974, when I was thirty-eight years old, the handsome fiftieth-anniversary issue of The Horn Book Magazine ended with a little two-page tribute from me. It was titled “A Love Letter to the Horn Book.” And it did tell...
Illustration (c) 2024 by Jillian Tamaki. From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may...
I sat down today to write about hope, but the truth is that we live in a fractured and fragile time, and it can be hard to feel hopeful, even with regard to children’s literature. Here, where I sit in Atlanta, Georgia, the state legislature is poised to curtail and...
Illustrations (c) 2024 by Lynne Rae Perkins. Being a fine arts major at a large public university opened my small-town mind to a myriad of ideas, in a myriad of ways. And I loved it. My education there was not particularly strong on how to survive after college. Which I...
Happy Anniversary, Horn Book! It’s been pure joy to watch you grow over the years. I read you voraciously as I honed my writing craft. And now I jump for joy to see my books so thoughtfully reviewed by you. I learned so much from you as an aspiring kidlit...
How did I end up in the picture-book world? It was all because of Nicole Rubel, the brilliant illustrator of the Rotten Ralph books, among many others. I was a creative writing student at Emerson College, and I was still on parole after an unsuccessful attempt to smuggle a ton...
My son John, who is not only a voracious reader but has also had the opportunity to meet many writers, librarians, editors, and publishers, said to me once, “You know, Mom, how lucky you are. You get to work with the best people in the world.” I do know that,...
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