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Gloomy weather and an almost-empty office provided the perfect opportunity to try Pop-Up: Everything You Need to Know to Create Your Own Pop-Up Bookby Ruth Wickings and Frances Castle (Candlewick). This book/activity kit introduces paper engineering mechanics from basic (angle folds and parallel folds) to complex (noisemakers and spirals), then...
Two novels from the late 1960s dawn of “the new realism” have resurfaced. Will they find new readers? The first thing that strikes me about John Donovan’s I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip (originally published by Harper in 1969) and June Jordan’s His Own Where (Crowell, 1971)...
Yes, I'm going to continuing mouthing off over here, but today the Horn Book debuts a second blog, Out of the Box. Although its nature will be defined as we go, its goal is to provide coverage of some of the many books, near-books and neo-books that don't need review...
Here is a short list culled from the myriad resources available, as well as a list of the books Potter wrote. Web resourcesBeatrix Potter Societywww.beatrixpottersociety.org.uk/The Potter Society has a quarterly newsletter and organizes regional gatherings both in the UK and abroad. Every other summer, they host a one-week tour and a...
(Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen Miss Potter and you do not knowthe full story of Beatrix and Norman, stop after number 7.)1. In the film, we see a ten-year-old Beatrix telling her brother the story of Hunca Munca (The Tale of Two Bad Mice) and we see a drawing...
Children’s literature enthusiasts have been anticipating the opening of Miss Potter with a mixture of amusement, dread, and hope. Amusement that anyone would think Potter’s life was exciting enough for a film, dread that she could be misrepresented as glaringly as she was by her first biographer, and hope that...
Have you heard about the "newly-discovered" Beatrix Potter story that's about to be published?Well, in fact it has been around for a while. Way back in [?1942? get date], Mrs. Heelis (call her Beatrix Potter at your peril!) sent several unpublished manuscripts to Bertha Mahony, the Horn Book's founder. Bertha...
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