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An experienced editor of books for young people (as well as the editor of A Family of Readers by Martha Parravano and me), Marc Aronson is also one of the genre’s most distinguished historians. His Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado won both the Boston Globe–Horn Book...
V O L U M E 4 , N U M B E R 8 • A U G U S T 2 0 1 1In this issueFive questions for Marc Aronson • More new nonfiction • Dot-dot-dash — concept books with a twist • YA novels you've been waiting for • Of interest to adults • From the EditorFor a list of books mentioned in this issue, see link below.Masthead art © by William Steig,...
Katrina Hedeen, Cathie Mercier, and I are busy pulling together this year’s Horn Book at Simmons, a one-day colloquium on October 1st at Simmons College’s Center for the Study of Children’s Literature. Held the day after the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, the colloquium, titled “Engaging Worlds, Real and Imagined,” brings...
For adults passionate about children’s books, these new biographical works will, through very different approaches, foster appreciation of two prominent figures in children’s literature.After rereading the Little House books she loved as a kid, Wendy McClure renews her obsession with all things Laura Ingalls Wilder and chronicles it in The...
Three new concept books for preschool and primary ages play with the book form and go out of their way to keep kids involved.Newcomer Patricia Intriago brings a strong graphic sensibility to her deceptively minimalist Dot. This book of opposites uses a brief rhyming text and a playful touch, setting...
An illustrated book about an ocean voyage, a comic-strip biography of a Nobel physicist, and an examination of a controversial period of American history are just some of the new nonfiction titles hitting shelves alongside Marc Aronson’s Trapped.Feynman by Jim Ottaviani ingeniously uses a first-person narrative and the graphic novel...
Another entry in a beloved series about a high school Everygirl, the follow-up to a novel about two very different characters and their unlikely attraction, and the gripping sequel to a futuristic science fiction thriller are books teens will want to get their hands on.In Incredibly Alice, the twenty-sixth book...
The July issue of Notes from the Horn Book is out, featuring "Five Questions for . . ." Sophie Blackall, a recent BGHB Honor honoree who seems to be everywhere these days and doing some great work. Also: new picture-book bios (talk about something that's everywhere), middle-grade fiction, and a...
Where many picture book biographies give a few pages to a subject’s childhood and quickly skip to the more noteworthy adult years, Patrick McDonnell’s Me . . . Jane devotes itself to primatologist Jane Goodall’s youth. Through a powerful synthesis of simple text, artless paintings, and collaged regalia from Jane’s...
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