Interviews
Roger interviewed Melissa Sweet on Sunday, June 24, 2012, at the ALA Convention in Anaheim. Melissa Sweet's book Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade is the 2012 Sibert Award winner, and she created the cover illustration for the July/August issue of The Horn Book...
Beach-Time Brenda's next adventure?In the May/June 2012 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, reviewer Christine Hepperman asks Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey author/illustrator Mini Grey about a new favorite character. Read the full review of Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey here.Christine M. Hepperman: Will Beach-Time Brenda reappear in...
Molly Bang has won many awards for her picture book illustration over the past forty years. She is also the author of Picture This, a book for adults about how pictures work. In 2009 Molly teamed with MIT ecologist Penny Chisholm on Living Sunlight, a picture book explaining how light...
On a visit with our downstairs neighbors Reach Out and Read, I learned that their CEO Earl Martin Phalen blogs for The Huffington Post on the topics of early education, literacy, and parenting.Phalen recently interviewed National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Walter Dean Myers about literacy and his ambassadorial platform...
In the May/June 2012 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, Jennifer Brabander asks The President's Stuck in the Bathtub author Susan Katz about writing presidential poetry. Read the full review of The President's Stuck in the Bathtub here.Jennifer Brabander: Which president was the hardest to write a poem about?Susan Katz:...
Yesterday, Shane Evans had me making music noises like the young people do these days; who knows what's in store today? Come to the Horn Book booth and see. (By the way, our guys Guy and Mike have been video-recording all of the interviews, and we'll be posting them to...
From the May/June 2012 issue of The Horn Book Magazine:Cynthia Ritter asks A Bus Called Heaven author/illustrator Bob Graham about the idea behind his new picture book. Read the full review of A Bus Called Heaven here.Cynthia Ritter: Was your inspiration for the book a real bus?Bob Graham: I did...
1. What are the Live Five Questions?Live Five Questions sprang from the "Five Questions for . . . ." feature in Notes from the Horn Book, our monthly e-newsletter. A few ALA's ago, we took this feature live, conducting brief, five-question interviews with authors and illustrators at the Horn Book...
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 byMister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls is Mary Downing Hahn's thirtieth novel, and a notable departure from her usual middle-school territory. Markedly YA, the book is based on an...
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