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It’s wonderful to be here with all of you. I’d like to thank my agent, Brenda Bowen; my editor, Annie Kelley, and everyone at Random House Studio; and illustrator Brett Helquist, of course, who is a wizard. Thank you to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for this honor. [Read...
Thank you to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for honoring Fungi Grow. I have found the Horn Book to be a guiding voice and influence both in my time illustrating and writing picture books and as an avid reader of the genre. I have long admired Maria Gianferrari’s writing...
I am overjoyed to be in the company of all of these fine book creators. Congrats to you all! Many thanks to both the Boston Globe and the Horn Book, and congratulations on the Horn Book’s hundredth anniversary! A heart-filled “thanks, mush” to judges Cathryn Mercier, Katrina Hedeen Eftekhari, and...
As my mother's executor, I was exhilarated to find forty-four letters from the great Bertha Mahony Miller to my late mother in my attic. Simmons University Library later sent me copies of five of my mother's letters to Bertha for the war years 1941-1944. In her letters, my mother, Hilda van Stockum...
So much changes in a lifetime. And so much stays the same. Happy one-hundredth birthday to The Horn Book. Prayers and blessings for a hundred more. And because of this milestone, I will start with gratitude for another centenarian. My beloved’s grandmother, Hilda, lived to be a hundred and seven,...
When a writer is at a loss for words, you know something magical, meaningful, and surreal has occurred. When I heard Rez Ball had won a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor, I had to pinch myself. As a kid from a small reservation in rural northern Minnesota, things of this nature...
The Blood Years is my first work of historical fiction. And it’s more than that: It’s also what I’ve made of the stories my Nana shared with me about being a Jewish teenager in Czernowitz, Romania, during WWII and the Holocaust. Though she told me many things, and I knew...
Cover from Head Full of Clouds by Joanne Schwartz. Illustration © 2025 by Afsaneh Sanei. Published by Tundra Books. Betsy Groban shares scenes from the remarkable marriage of Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson. Author Emma Otheguy interviews translator Emily Carrero Mustelier. “When Fingers Are Fearless”: a poem by Shifa Saltagi...
I am deeply honored to receive this award. I feel profoundly grateful to the committee for recognizing this book. It has been an arduous journey that I would have thought impossible were it not for my editor, Neal Porter. At times like these, it feels appropriate to look closely at...
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