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NF Notes: Letter from the Editor

NF Notes: Letter from the Editor
Roger Sutton,  Oct 31, 2012
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book, a quarterly supplement to our monthly e-newsletter Notes from the Horn Book. Each issue of Nonfiction Notes will contain brief reviews, taken from the Horn Book Guide, of new and recent informational books we think would be especially...
Core Publishing

Core Publishing
Roger Sutton | Blogs,  Aug 27, 2012
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You can sometimes feel like the Old Stage Manager in this job, watching ’em all come and go for their hour upon the stage. Big picture books, little picture books, good girls and bad girls, vampires, angels, fallen angels, books for boys, fantasy, and realism. The players have producers: not...
King of All the Caldecotts

King of All the Caldecotts
Roger Sutton,  Jun 20, 2012
1
“If this book doesn’t win the Caldecott Medal I’m going to kill myself.” I heard that from Zena Sutherland, quoting Ursula Nordstrom, while Zena and I were at Philadelphia’s Rosenbach Museum in 1982, viewing an exhibition of the complete original art for the book in question, Maurice Sendak’s Where the...
Editorial: We Belong Together

Editorial: We Belong Together
Roger Sutton,  May 01, 2012
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Like you (I’m guessing), I felt my soul give a little lurch at the news that Encyclopaedia Britannica was getting out of the book business to go online, all the time. Part of my reaction was nostalgia—when I was a child we owned the first four or five volumes of...
Editorial: Remixing Reading

Editorial: Remixing Reading
Roger Sutton,  Mar 01, 2012
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Circumstance as well as preference dictated that I read the 2012 Newbery Medal– and Scott O’Dell Award–winning Dead End in Norvelt in four flavors: advance reading copy, finished book, iBook, and as an audio download from Audible.com. I read the ARC and bound book in editing the Horn Book Magazine...
In Which We've Done Only Half the Work

In Which We've Done Only Half the Work
Roger Sutton,  Dec 30, 2011
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In our last issue I suggested that the creation of new and imaginative books for youth can’t be left entirely to authors, illustrators, and publishers; librarians and other interested adults need to do their part by getting these books into readers’ hands and, we hope, hearts.At a time when so...
The Sign on Sendak's Door

The Sign on Sendak's Door
Roger Sutton,  Nov 01, 2011
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Although grateful for the support of publishers who place advertisements in The Horn Book, I’ve never before felt the need to direct you to such from this page. But I do so now: please go and read the advertisement on page 57 and then come back here. I’ll wait.Imagine a...
Editorial: What Books Can Do

Editorial: What Books Can Do
Roger Sutton,  Aug 17, 2011
In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11th ten years ago, there were many books published for children and teens about the tragedy. Some were informative, and at least two transcended the moment: Maira Kalman’s Fireboat and Mordicai Gerstein’s The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. But there was...
Boys and Girls

Boys and Girls
Roger Sutton,  Sep 01, 2007
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We have called this special issue “Boys and Girls” in tribute to where the Horn Book’s great adventure began, as the newsletter of Bertha Mahony’s Bookshop for Boys and Girls, est. 1916. But as someone who came of age with the second-wave feminism of the 1970s, I’m anxious that we...
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