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The author's childhood copy. Photo: Minh Lê. One of my favorite childhood picture books was A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams. In it, a community rallies to help a family following a devastating fire. Then, looking to move forward from the wreckage, the family starts collecting coins...
We have it all Brilliance, talent, artists, writers, philosophers, scholars, educators, scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, Activists, and me Illustration (c) by Frank Morrison. From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn"...
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Roger Sutton. Photo courtesy of Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. My most personal memories of the Horn Book began in 2012 when Andrew Karre, my editor at Lerner Books, called with news that No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem...
Betty Flocken with Elizabeth Wein in 1968. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Wein. In 1972, when I was seven years old, I lived in Jamaica. My Pennsylvanian grandmother, Betty Flocken, sent me a new book every month. When Beverly Cleary’s Ellen Tebbits arrived, I read it in a single afternoon. That...
Illustration (c) 2024 by Raúl the Third. From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and...
When I started at the Horn Book at the beginning of our current century, I apprenticed myself to a man who was in no rush to let go of the previous one. Born in 1917, a printer who was the son of a printer and the father of another, Thomas...
While I was attending art school in Boston in the 1990s, an illustration class piqued my interest in children’s book publishing. At that time Boston housed several publishers, the Horn Book, and Simmons College (now University), which made it a small hub for children’s literature. In a “right place, right...
Illustration (c) 2024 by Yuyi Morales. From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may...
Fifteen years ago, I wrote an essay for The Horn Book Magazine, “Brave Orphans, Smelly Boys, and Girls Named Katie.” It began, “I was never a girly girl. But I loved reading about girls” — especially ones who were high spirited and misunderstood, like me. These novels, I explained, got...
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