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Jaclyn MoriartyAround forty-five minutes northwest of downtown Sydney, Australia, is a pocket of suburbs known as The Hills: not quite city, not quite country. You only have to go back ten or twenty years to arrive at a time when these places — Castle Hill and Annangrove, Rouse Hill and...
Photo: Eric HinsdalePoet Christine Heppermann is a young adult book reviewer, a backyard chicken enthusiast, and the author of several nonfiction books for children and young adults. With her first YA poetry collection, Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty (Greenwillow, 14 years and up), Heppermann reveals herself to be...
Photo: Milton ViorstJudith Viorst, creator of Alexander (he of the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day), writes about another little boy who might just wish he could curl back up in bed. The young protagonist of And Two Boys Booed (Farrar/Ferguson, 4–7 years) is excited to perform in the...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byWhen I talked with Adi Alsaid about his first novel, Let's Get Lost, which is about a road trip, he was, appropriately enough, on a road trip...
In the July/August 2014 Horn Book Magazine, reviewer Jonathan Hunt asked author Candace Fleming about her intimate portrait of the last Imperial family of Russia, The Family Romanov. Read the starred review here.Jonathan Hunt: What was the most interesting thing you had to leave out of the book?Candace Fleming: So...
Photo: Kenneth B. GallVarian Johnson (who was co-valedictorian, with his twin brother, of his high school class, thank you very much) enjoys two careers: as an author and an engineer. It's not surprising, then, that his new book The Great Greene Heist (Scholastic, 12–16 years) is so meticulously — almost...
In the July/August 2014 Horn Book Magazine, reviewer Martha Parravano asked Emily's Blue Period author Cathleen Daly about the dual focus of this innovative picture book. Read the starred review of Emily's Blue Period here.Martha V. Parravano: Your book beautifully incorporates details about a particular artist (Picasso) and the young girl...
In her profile of Rita Williams-Garcia, K. T. Horning discusses the mutual love she and Rita have for The Jackson 5 — a love Rita infuses into her 2014 CSK Author Award–winning novel P.S. Be Eleven. After all, as K. T. writes, "nothing defined the era during which we [and...
On this day in 1865 — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued — abolition was finally announced in Texas, the last stronghold of slavery. In the May/June 2014 Horn Book Magazine, reviewer Robin Smith asked author Angela Johnson about the closing words and image of All...
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