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According to the old adage, death and taxes are the two things in life we can’t avoid. Children know about a third: school. In the United States, youngsters of a certain age must attend school, receiving state-mandated instruction at home or in public, private, boarding, or parochial institutions. School is...
>Maybe Sherry Jones, whose The Jewel of Medina was cancelled by Ballantine for fear of Muslim terrorist rage, was just working with the wrong division of Random House. The copyright page of each fall 08 Random House ARC I've received states "Random House Children's Books supports the First Amendment and...
We've just emailed the latest issue of Notes from the Horn Book, which this month covers new books about school, nature study and space; some good recent chapter books, and five writers' (and an editor's) own summer reading choices. Sign up now!And, especially for teachers, this issue provides a link...
>Two books reviewed in the forthcoming issue of the Horn Book Guide:From Bearport, Meish Goldish's Deadly Praying MantisFrom Lerner, Sandra Markle's Praying Mantises: Hungry Insect HeroesNothing* p.o.'d the late Zena Sutherland more than a nonfiction children's book ascribing virtue or venality to animals.*Except maybe simultaneous translation in dialogue, as in...
>I'm intrigued by Arthur Laurents's plans to bring West Side Story to Broadway next winter in a "bilingual revival," having the Puerto Rican characters speaking Spanish and otherwise making the show "more realistic." (Here's hoping he doesn't try to set it in the present, though, because that gorgeous, swanky 1950s...
>Missed Connections: leaving Stony Brook station around 6:00 PM yesterday. Me, tall middle-aged man in a bowtie listening to iPod. You, medium-height young woman reading the Horn Book.Any authors out there ever similarly catch a reader unawares?...
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