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Field Notes: I'm Dreaming of...Winter Reading!

Winter is only a few months away. At my library in a seaside community sixty miles south of Boston, one welcome distraction from the plummeting temperatures is our very own award program: the ­Quahog Book Award, named for the local mollusk. It encourages third-through sixth-grade children to read popular literature...

The Writers' Page: The Heroes Inside Us: Fighting for Truth, Justice, and the Right to Share Our Stories

"In 2018, the Horn Book published Kekla's article 'The Un-Hero's Journey,' which celebrated the quietly heroic moments that are possible even when we feel our most ordinary. That message is more relevant now than ever, in a time when librarians are fighting to keep books on the shelves, teachers are...

Horn Book Reminiscences: In the Company of Good Books

In honor of our centennial, we asked interns from over the years to share their reminiscences. I didn’t know about the Horn Book before I saw the internship posting during my final semester of my master’s program in the spring of 2022. But I had always had a dream of...

Horn Book Reminiscences: The Joy of Books

In honor of our centennial, we asked interns from over the years to share their reminiscences. As an intern at the Horn Book, I was immersed in the world of children’s books. I remember sitting in on staff meetings where books were passed around and discussed by the group. Everyone...

Horn Book Reminiscences: Internships Are What You Make of Them

In honor of our centennial, we asked interns from over the years to share their reminiscences. I interned at the Horn Book during the summer of 2019, while earning a dual masters in children’s literature and library science at Simmons University. I miss having unfettered access to more ARCs than...

Horn Book Reminiscences: An Industry Crash Course

In honor of our centennial, we asked interns from over the years to share their reminiscences. I interned at the Horn Book while earning my MFA in writing for children from Simmons. It was the perfect industry crash course. If a children’s book was on its way to publication, I...

Horn Book Reminiscences: An Essential Experience

In honor of our centennial, we asked interns from over the years to share their reminiscences. I was a Horn Book intern in early 2020, when the world went on lockdown. I will always be grateful to my colleagues at the Horn Book for extending my time with them instead...

Horn Book Reminiscences: To the Horn Book on Its Hundredth Birthday

In honor of our centennial, we asked interns from over the years to share their reminiscences. When I was a Horn Book intern, I opened physical boxes of physical books, shelved those books around the physical Sullivan Square office, and mailed them physically to reviewers or, in the case of...

Horn Book Reminiscences: What I Learned at the Horn Book

In honor of our centennial, we asked interns from over the years to share their reminiscences. I was both an editorial and design intern at the Horn Book in the fall of 2012. It was my last internship before graduating from Emerson College as well as before I started a...
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