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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 In When Sally O’Malley Discovered the Sea, Newbery Medalist Karen Cushman takes readers on a journey across a small piece of Oregon geography and history, neither of which feels...
Amy Cherrix’s meticulously researched page-turner Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike (Harper/HarperCollins, 8–12 years) puts a timely topic in context by examining the important work of epidemiologists in six case studies at various moments in history. For more scientific middle-grade nonfiction, see our list “Real...
As my mother's executor, I was exhilarated to find forty-four letters from the great Bertha Mahony Miller to my late mother in my attic. Simmons University Library later sent me copies of five of my mother's letters to Bertha for the war years 1941-1944. In her letters, my mother, Hilda van Stockum...
So much changes in a lifetime. And so much stays the same. Happy one-hundredth birthday to The Horn Book. Prayers and blessings for a hundred more. And because of this milestone, I will start with gratitude for another centenarian. My beloved’s grandmother, Hilda, lived to be a hundred and seven,...
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 In Alone, Megan E. Freeman chronicled the survival of a girl who finds that everyone around her has unaccountably disappeared. In Away, she shows us where they went. Roger...
When a writer is at a loss for words, you know something magical, meaningful, and surreal has occurred. When I heard Rez Ball had won a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor, I had to pinch myself. As a kid from a small reservation in rural northern Minnesota, things of this nature...
The Blood Years is my first work of historical fiction. And it’s more than that: It’s also what I’ve made of the stories my Nana shared with me about being a Jewish teenager in Czernowitz, Romania, during WWII and the Holocaust. Though she told me many things, and I knew...
I am deeply honored to receive this award. I feel profoundly grateful to the committee for recognizing this book. It has been an arduous journey that I would have thought impossible were it not for my editor, Neal Porter. At times like these, it feels appropriate to look closely at...
My sincere thanks to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards committee for this honor. When the award was announced in June, the news of this recognition spread to Korea, and my picture was in the newspaper my parents read. So my father, who hadn’t really read a single picture book in...
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