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This week on hbook.com... From the September/October 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Happy Anniversary: It's Perfectly Normal by Kitty Flynn Horn Boo! Halloween Book Recommendations From the November/December 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Letter to the Editor from Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley, November 2019 Calling Caldecott: The Caldecott Torch...
Cindy Ritter: I started off the morning setting up our booth. Two moments of pride: figuring out how to hang up our banner using some zip-tie chain-link magic; and discussing with passersby the 2019 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award–winning books we had on display, which I’d chosen this year with committee...
If you were inspired by this morning's history-making all-woman spacewalk -- like we were! -- here are some booklists about: strong women making an impact, picture-book biographies of pioneering women, collective biographies of "brazen" women, and groundbreaking women in STEAM. And don't miss the new picture book Astro Girl, by...
This week on hbook.com... From the September/October 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Field Notes: Readers and Refugees by Theo Heras Reviews of the Week: Starred Picture Book: Double Bass Blues by Andrea J. Loney; illus. by Rudy Gutierrez Fiction: Butterfly Yellow by Thanhhà Lai Starred Nonfiction: Crossing On Time:...
Interested in learning more about the children’s book industry, book reviewing, or how magazines and review journals operate? A Horn Book internship is a great place to start. Our editorial interns are an invaluable help in managing the gazillion books that enter and leave our office (and if the phrase...
It’s Indigenous Peoples' Day! We urge you — today and all year — to seek out and share books respectfully representing indigenous North American peoples and cultures. For an extensive resource by a cultural insider and a children’s literature scholar, please visit Dr. Debbie Reese’s website American Indians in Children’s Literature (and in particular...
This week on hbook.com... Tonight is the 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony! Visit our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts for highlights from the evening's festivities, and stay tuned for more BGHB content coming on the website next week. Starred reviews coming in the November/December 2019 Horn Book Magazine Kimberly Jones and...
Rainbow Rowell and Margaret Willison (and Baz and Simon!). Photo: Shoshana Flax. Rainbow Rowell wrote Wayward Son in secret. A sequel to Carry On — a risky proposition itself, in that it’s set in the fictional universe for which the protagonist of her realistic novel Fangirl writes fanfiction (got...
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the world, but then you read.” -James Baldwin What do you do when the world is trying to erase you for not being white, male, and heterosexual? You write books. At least that what’s Gabby Rivera and Roxane Gay do....
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