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The Margret and H. A. Rey Curious George Lecture is always a good time, and this year the Cambridge (MA) Public Library hosted Jerry Craft. Craft is the author/illustrator of New Kid — the only book to have won the Newbery, CSK Author Award, and Kirkus Prize; and the first...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Chains, set in 1776 New York, Laurie Halse Anderson comes up the coast for Rebellion 1776, a novel set...
In the stirring picture book When I Hear Spirituals (Holiday, 6–9 years), Cheryl Willis Hudson’s poetic text from the point of view of a contemporary Black child pairs with lyrics from spirituals, while London Ladd’s illustrations tell a story of that child and her family along with scenes from African...
I first met Cuban-born translator Emily Carrero Mustelier through poet and translator Alexis Romay. I was working on my middle-grade novel Sofía Acosta Makes a Scene, a book about a girl whose family danced with the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Alexis read a draft of the book and immediately put...
I recently picked up Philip Nel’s 2012 dual biography of children’s literature luminaries, Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature, and was immediately riveted. Nel did amazing due diligence: eighty interviews! Nearly six hundred (unobtrusive) footnotes! Research at three...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by The author-illustrator of more than a dozen picture books for young children, Maria van Lieshout discovered a hitherto hidden piece of her family’s history that serves as the source...
This interview originally appeared in the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New Books for Emerging Readers, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by Picture-book and chapter-book...
CHARLY PALMER: We want to start by thanking the committee for this incredible honor. We are truly surprised, humbled, and so grateful to be standing here today, receiving this special citation. It’s a rare acknowledgment — given only seven times in the entire history of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards...
Look what came Out of the Box: What a thrill to receive in the mail this gorgeous art from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art: Last fall we were co-honorees for the Carle Honors with Uri Shulevitz, who sadly passed away earlier this week. Shulevitz wasn’t in attendance,...
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