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Castle Cottage Sawrey Nr. Ambleside Dec 13. 34 Dear Mrs. Miller I have just been reading again your most interesting letter of Jan 30 — never answered by me yet. I think time slips away faster and faster as one grows older — partly because this person when tired falls...
Opening spread of a June 1929 article about Bertha Mahony (The Atlantic Monthly) by Alice Jordan I. Of all the factors influencing the selling of children's books in the last dozen years, perhaps the most widely loved is the Bookshop for Boys and Girls in...
May 20. 27 Sawrey Nr Ambleside Dear Miss Bertha Mahony, Some months ago the Horn Book contained a paragraph relating how the writer and illustrator of the “Peter Rabbit” books lived in the district of the Westmorland Lakes in the north of England. Peter Rabbit is not...
Ethel Heins and Lillian Gerhardt What prompted Lillian Gerhardt, editor of School Library Journal, to tell Horn Book editor Ethel Heins, “On second thought, I may fly up to Boston and hit you over the head with a chair after all”? It started with the tricky term “mainstream”...
Bertha Mahony Miller founder of Horn Book, editor from 1924 to 1951 Bertha Everett Mahony Miller was born in 1882. She joined the staff of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union which protected and promoted the status of Boston’s working women, in 1906. Ten years later, under the auspices...
Editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc. from 1996 to 2022, Roger Sutton advanced The Horn Book Magazine’s superb reputation for book reviewing while expanding its coverage of the cultural and social significance of children’s and young adult literature. Under Sutton’s direction, most notably in special issues published annually,...
All sorts of letters (and envelopes, too) have been sent to our attention over the years. Some were beautifully illustrated by renowned artists, some were sternly composed by famous writers, some were hilarious, and others surprisingly revealing. Posted below are a few favorites, available as images and as...
Ann A. Flowers co-founder of The Horn Book Guide, editor from 1989 to 1992 In 1989, Ann Flowers co-founded The Horn Book Guide (with Anita Silvey, editor of The Horn Book Magazine) and served as its first editor. She brought an impressive background as a librarian and a critic —...
Bertha Mahony Miller in 1929 Bertha Everett Mahony was born in Rockport, MA, in 1882. After a year at the Secretarial School at Simmons College, she joined the staff of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU), a Boston institution organized to protect and promote the status of working women,...
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