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Photo: Augusten BurroughsEveryone is swooning over Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction Award winner Eleanor & Park (St. Martin's Griffin, 2013), which Horn Book reviewer Cindy Ritter called "an honest, heart-wrenching portrayal of imperfect but unforgettable love." With the acclaimed adult novel Attachments already on her CV and the much-anticipated YA book...
Photo: Alicia BozewiczJesse Klausmeier received a 2013 Boston Globe–Horn Book Picture Book Honor for her debut Open This Little Book (Chronicle, 2013). Horn Book reviewer Julie Roach wrote of this metafictional tale, "Lively art and text come together with clever design to make this ode to books and reading a...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byWith more than fifty books published since 1991, I can't think of a literary pool Donna Jo Napoli hasn't at least dipped her toe into: picture books,...
Robert Byrd took home the 2013 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award for his picture book biography Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Dial, 2012). As the author/illustrator of Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer (Dutton, 2003) and illustrator of Kathleen Krull's Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything (Viking, 2010)...
In her 2013 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Honor book Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building (Lee & Low, 2012), Christy Hale juxtaposes concrete poems and illustrations of children at building play with photographs of innovative architecture around the world. We asked her about the tipping point for this ingenious idea,...
Photo: Annie Hosfeld.Cat-and-mouse games are so over — what might a feline do when faced with little green men? My question is entirely literal, and David Wiesner’s answer, in the form of his new picture book Mr. Wuffles! (Clarion, 3–7 years), is completely reasonable. See five more questions below.1. History is...
Gerald McDermott and a young fan. Photo courtesy of ALSC.While doing the research for my article Arrow to the Sun and Critical Controversies (Sept./Oct. 2013 Horn Book Magazine), I came across several references to author Gerald McDermott's first children's book editor at Holt, Rinehart & Winston, George Nicholson, and the...
Here's where Roger Talks with Molly Idle.In the July/August 2013 Horn Book Magazine, reviewer Elissa Gershowitz asked Flora and the Flamingo author/illustrator Molly Idle where Flora gets her groove. Read the starred review here.Elissa Gershowitz: Is there music in your head to accompany the story? (I hear the Sugar Plum...
by Anita SilveyBeyond the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier is being published by Knopf on April 21, 1985. This interview, conducted at Robert Cormier’s home in Leominster, Massachusetts, took place on December 20, 1984, and focuses on the new book, his methods of writing, and the influences on his work.AS:...
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