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Editorial: We’re Not Rainbow Sprinkles

Editorial: We’re Not Rainbow Sprinkles
Roger Sutton,  Oct 30, 2015
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Last month at the Cambridge Public Library, I moderated a panel of five middle-grade writers brought to town by their publisher, Random House: Jeanne Birdsall, Bruce Coville, Alice Hoffman, R. J. Palacio, and Rebecca Stead. The place was packed and the conversation lively.With just a few minutes left for questions...
From the Editor — October 2015

From the Editor — October 2015
Roger Sutton,  Oct 12, 2015
I want to thank the Horn Book, Simmons College, and Boston Globe staff who worked so hard to make this year’s Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards and Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium: "Transformations" a big success. You can see a photo album of the events on our website, and look forward...
From the Editor - September 2015

From the Editor - September 2015
Roger Sutton,  Sep 09, 2015
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I’m happy to be attending the tenth anniversary Carle Honors, which this year honor the contributions to picture books by artist Helen Oxenbury, editor Neal Porter, the Cotsen Library at Princeton, and intellectual freedom advocate Joan Bertin. These recipients are matched in worthiness by the Eric Carle Museum of Picture...
Editorial: Read Before You Write

Editorial: Read Before You Write
Roger Sutton,  Sep 01, 2015
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A member of the child_lit listserv recently posted a query which anyone who works with children’s books will find familiar: “A former student contacted me to ask if I could give her information about how to get started in writing and publishing children’s books.” Even given this little information, the...
From the Editor—August 2015

From the Editor—August 2015
Roger Sutton,  Aug 25, 2015
When I was walking around the ALA exhibits in San Francisco earlier this summer, I kept running into publishers eager to show me their "narrative nonfiction." I knew this was a concept (see Elizabeth Partridge's article "Narrative Nonfiction: Kicking Ass at Last" and more on narrative nonfiction from The Horn...
From the Editor - August 2015

From the Editor - August 2015
Roger Sutton,  Aug 10, 2015
I’m happy to announce that Susan Cooper will be keynoting "Transformations," the 2015 Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium, to be held at Simmons College on October 3rd, following the presentation of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards the evening before. Susan, who won the BGHB Fiction Award in 1973 for The...
From the Editor - July 2015

From the Editor - July 2015
Roger Sutton,  Jul 06, 2015
I'm just back from ALA in San Francisco (conveniently also home to my two adorable grandchildren), where the term I kept hearing throughout the exhibit halls was narrative nonfiction (last year it was bullying). As is so often true of these trends, the term meant different things to different people,...
Editorial: What the Survey Doesn’t Say

Editorial: What the Survey Doesn’t Say
Roger Sutton,  Jun 29, 2015
Welcome to our annual issue devoted to the ALA book awards. You will find herein acceptance speeches by and profiles of the Coretta Scott King, Caldecott, Newbery, and Wilder award winners as well as some analysis of the winners and honor books; some Newbery history (where does K. T. Horning...
From the Editor - June 2015

From the Editor - June 2015
Roger Sutton,  Jun 08, 2015
2010 BGHB Fiction Award winner Rebecca Stead and Horn Book Editor in Chief Roger Sutton announce the 2015 BGHB winners. Photo by Mark Tuchman of SLJ.Who got it right, the Newbery and Caldecott or the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards? This isn't exactly a fair fight as the different awards have...
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