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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 by What happens when a hero of middle-grade readers everywhere and a leading theorist of comics get together? In The Cartoonists Club, Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud bring story and...
On April 1 (no fooling!) I attended a "salon event" for Laurie Halse Anderson, hosted by Porter Square Books. Anderson was there to discuss her new middle-grade novel, Rebellion 1776, which will be starred in the upcoming May/June Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Perception and Reality. The salon was intimate and conversational —...
My name is Shifa, spelled S-h-i-f-a, for most of my life pronounced shee-fa, sometimes said Shiff-a, but really in Arabic it’s she-faa’ with an emphasis at the end like a silent t, although usually I just stay quiet and nod however it’s said, because for some reason, my ears have...
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 by The “We” of We Are the Scrappy Ones are a rainbow of disabled children and young people, celebrated by author and disability advocate Rebekah Taussig and illustrator Kirbi Fagan....
The Margret and H. A. Rey Curious George Lecture is always a good time, and this year the Cambridge (MA) Public Library hosted Jerry Craft. Craft is the author/illustrator of New Kid — the only book to have won the Newbery, CSK Author Award, and Kirkus Prize; and the first...
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 by Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Chains, set in 1776 New York, Laurie Halse Anderson comes up the coast for Rebellion 1776, a novel set...
In the stirring picture book When I Hear Spirituals (Holiday, 6–9 years), Cheryl Willis Hudson’s poetic text from the point of view of a contemporary Black child pairs with lyrics from spirituals, while London Ladd’s illustrations tell a story of that child and her family along with scenes from African...
I first met Cuban-born translator Emily Carrero Mustelier through poet and translator Alexis Romay. I was working on my middle-grade novel Sofía Acosta Makes a Scene, a book about a girl whose family danced with the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Alexis read a draft of the book and immediately put...
I recently picked up Philip Nel’s 2012 dual biography of children’s literature luminaries, Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature, and was immediately riveted. Nel did amazing due diligence: eighty interviews! Nearly six hundred (unobtrusive) footnotes! Research at three...
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