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Editorial: Self Service

Editorial: Self Service
Roger Sutton,  Oct 31, 2014
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The Horn Book website was alight last month with a discussion of self-
publishing books for children. It began when I posted my thoughts on the subject in response to an email I received querying our policy of not reviewing books written and published by the same person. Like most good...
From the Editor – October 2014

From the Editor – October 2014
Roger Sutton,  Oct 07, 2014
When it comes to spooky stories, it’s always hard to know just how scared any given person wants to be. Maurice Sendak always said that children sent him drawings of Wild Things that terrified him; I, on the other hand, once drove a little girl screaming from a story hour...
From the Editor - September 2014

From the Editor - September 2014
Roger Sutton,  Sep 08, 2014
I hope you will join us for the fifth annual Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium, “Mind the Gaps,” on October 11th at Simmons College in Boston. This year’s program will examine the various diversity gaps in children’s book publishing, whether they be underrepresentation of nonwhite perspectives or the decreasing proportion...
Editorial: Upstate Over There

Editorial: Upstate Over There
Roger Sutton,  Sep 01, 2014
“Will there ever be another Sendak?” This is the question I posed last week to the 2014 Sendak Fellows, illustrators Nora Krug and Harry Bliss, at Scotch Hill Farm, the late artist’s upstate New York retreat now owned by Sendak’s longtime assistant Lynn Caponera.I had come to the farm —...
From the Editor - August 2014

From the Editor - August 2014
Roger Sutton,  Aug 11, 2014
I hope you can join Horn Book executive editor Martha V. Parravano and me at Fostering Lifelong Learners, a one-day conference the Horn Book, along with School Library Journal and the Cuyahoga County Public Library, is sponsoring on September 19th at the Parma-Snow branch of the CCPL in Parma, Ohio....
From the Editor — July 2014

From the Editor — July 2014
Roger Sutton,  Jul 07, 2014
We lost two significant pioneers of YA literature this past month. When Nancy Garden’s Annie on My Mind was published in 1982, the possibilities for GLBTQ characters in teen fiction changed forever. The book said to gay kids: you are not going through a phase, you will meet others like...
Editorial: Don’t Speak!

Editorial: Don’t Speak!
Roger Sutton,  Jun 27, 2014
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What’s an award without the occasional scandal to make sure everybody’s paying attention? Marisa Tomei winning the Oscar. Wicked not winning the Tony. Rush Limbaugh being named Author of the Year.That last should not have been a surprise, though. The Children’s Book Council’s Author and Illustrator of the Year awards,...
From the Editor — June 2014

From the Editor — June 2014
Roger Sutton,  Jun 09, 2014
On May 31st, I announced the winners of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards at the BookExpo convention in New York. The awards will be bestowed at a ceremony on October 10th at Simmons College; the next day brings the Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium, “Mind the Gaps: Books for...
From the Editor -- May 2014

From the Editor -- May 2014
Roger Sutton,  May 09, 2014
This week marks the debut of our new publication The Horn Book Herald, which will arrive in your inbox no more than four times a year. The first issue is devoted to our choices for the best summer reading and includes a link to a handy PDF you can take...
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