Obituaries
We're sad to hear of the death yesterday of Frances Foster, publisher of Frances Foster Books at FSG. At the link, please read Leonard S. Marcus's interview with her from the September/October 2003 issue....
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Maya Angelou. Here are some books by which to help remember the great author and poet.Adoff, Arnold and Andrews, Benny, Editors I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans208 pp. Simon 1997. ISBN 0-689-81241-8 PE ISBN...
illustration by Maurice Sendak, from Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present.Former publisher of children's books at HarperCollins and immortal author of picture books Charlotte Zolotow has died at the age of 98. As an editor and publisher she was quite a force, bringing us such revelations as The Pigman and...
Anne Hoppe, editor of Marc Simont’s 2002 Caldecott Honor Book The Stray Dog, spoke at the memorial held for the acclaimed illustrator in Old Cornwall, Connecticut, on August 24, 2013. We are honored to share her remarks with our readers. For more from The Horn Book about Monsieur Simont, click...
Simont's spare, lovely cover for the March/April 2004 Horn Book Magazine.Illustrator extraordinaire Marc Simont died July 13, 2013, in Cornwall, Connecticut, at ninety-seven. Three of his picture books received Caldecott recognition — the 1957 Medal for A Tree Is Nice (text by Janice May Udry); 1950 and 2002 Honors for The...
We are saddened to learn of the death of author-illustrator Bernard Waber last week. Waber, the author of more than thirty children's books, is best known for his books featuring urban crocodile Lyle (The House on East 88th Street; Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile; Lovable Lyle; and more) and those about every-child...
We mourn the death (last Friday) of E.L. Konigsburg, who never wrote a book I didn't want to read. (Not that I love them all, but even where she went wrong, she did so magnetically.) I remember a slightly uneasy conversation with Konigsburg's editor Jean Karl right after Elaine had...
We were very sad to hear about the recent passing of E. L. Konigsburg. Konigsburg was the author of Newbery Award–winners From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and The View from Saturday, along with Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, which won a Newbery Honor the same...
Author Fredrick L. McKissack died April 28, 2013, at the age of seventy-three. With his wife, Patricia McKissack, he wrote more than one hundred books about the African American experience, many award-winning, including A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter; Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in...
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