Welcome, 2021! 2020 was a year no one will soon forget (though in-person Midwinter may be a distant memory). Revisit the past twelve months — is that all it has been?! — and lose yourself in the world of children's and YA literature with our annual Horn Book Year in Review.  

2020 ALA Awards coverage, from in-person Midwinter to virtual #TheBookAwardCelebration

May/June 2020 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Breaking the Rules

2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards coverage, including our virtual celebration throughout October 

Summer Reading

Horn BOO!

Holiday High Notes

Fanfare

Books beyond buildings: Support your local bookstore and library! by Cynthia K. Ritter and Shoshana Flax

Baby Ross, meet baby Rachel: The new craze of TV-to-book adaptations

COVID-19 coverage

2020 Horn Book Magazine features

• Middle-Grade Graphic Novels Make Good by Elissa Gershowitz
• How Do You Solve a Problem like Nonfiction? by Horn Book editors
• "Give Me a Decent Bottle of Poison": Writing a Mystery by Marthe Jocelyn
• Our Modern Minstrelsy by Kekla Magoon
• Revolution Kid Style Now!*: Writing Books (About Kids) That Break the Rules by Celia C. Pérez
• Children's Books and Contradictions by Emma Otheguy
• Writing as an Act of Defiance by Elizabeth Partridge
• A Call to Action by Paula Chase, Cheryl Willis Hudson, Wade Hudson, Kelly Starling Lyons, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, and Renée Watson

2020 Horn Book Magazine columns

• Books in the Home: The Joys of Cooking: Good Books About Good Food by Dean Schneider
• Happy Anniversary: The Janitor's Boy by Roger Sutton
• The Writer's Page: Compassion, as Well as Correctness by Padma Venkatraman
• "Rule Breakers" series
• Happy Anniversary: Black and White and Read All Over Again by Cathryn M. Mercier
• Cadenza: The Rules That "Jack" Broke by Shoshana Flax
• Happy Anniversary: The People Could Fly by Nicholl Denice Montgomery
• The Writer's Page: "At the Mercy or Whim of Others": Policing Protest in Children's Publishing by Zetta Elliott
• Field Notes: Teaching Infinite Hope by Dean Schneider
• Happy Anniversary: His Dark Materials by Katie Bircher
• The Writer's Page: Navigating the N-Word by Nikki Grimes
• New for New Readers: How to Publish (What I Think Are) Great Books for New Readers by Grace Maccarone
• What Makes a Good Hanukkah Picture Book? by Marjorie Ingall
• Field Notes: Books Everlasting: Teaching Children's Literature to Older Adults by Amy Kellman

Interviews

• Kacen Callender
• A.S. King
• Someday We Will Fly: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour by Shoshana Flax
• We Need Diverse Jewish and Muslim Books: A Conversation by Heidi Rabinowitz and Sadaf Siddique
• Alice Faye Duncan
• Diana Murray and Zachariah OHora
• Disturbing the Universe: Books That Broke the Rules by Roger Sutton and Betsy Hearne
• Lucy Knisley
• Elizabeth Acevedo
• Monica Brown
• Ryan T. Higgins
• Evette Dionne
• Grace Lin
• An Interview with MacArthur Fellow Jacqueline Woodson by Elissa Gershowitz, Monique Harris, Nicholl Denice Montgomery, and Dr. Kim Parker
• Jordan Scott and Sydney Smith
• A Conversation with Literary Agents on Diversity and Inclusion by Jason Low

Talks with Roger

• Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey
• Sara Pennypacker
• Carmen Agra Deedy
• Henry Cole
• Jon Lasser
• Jordan Ifueko
• Jessie Sima
• Candace Fleming
• Trudy Ludwig
• Traci Chee
• Daniel Kraus
• John Rocco
• Jonathan Auxier
• Katie Yamasaki
• Cecily Kaiser
• Cynthia Leitich Smith and Rosemary Brosnan
• Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng
• Lincoln Peirce
• Sarwat Chadda

Publishers' Previews

January/February: Middle-Grade Novels

Lily Williams & Karen Schneemann | Janae Marks | Amy McCulloch

March/April: Spring Preview

Kelly Yang |Angela DiTerlizzi | Linda Sue Park| Carole Lindstrom & Michaela Goade | Rebecca Stead | Michael Genhart

May/June: Diversity Five Ways

Tae Keller | Kiku Hughes | Gayle E. Pitman | Erin Entrada Kelly  | Christian Robinson

July/August: Debut Authors

Seamus Kirst | Aiden Thomas | Tessa Allen | Kim Johnson | Lynnette Mawhinney | Julie Lee 

September/October: Fall Preview

Amanda McCrina | Jan Thomas | Saadia Faruqi | Nic Stone | James Patterson & Kwame Alexander

November/December: Picture Books and Graphic Novels

Lily LaMotte | Oge Mora | Elizabeth Zunon | Three Demigoddesses | Alexandra Bracken | John Hare | Raj Haldar | Kat Leyh

In memoriam

• Myron Levoy
• Susan Jeffers
• Ann Grifalconi
• Katherine Johnson
• Betsy Byars
• Teresa Mlawer
• Tomie dePaola
  • In Memoriam: Tomie dePaola
• Jean Little
• Gene Deitch
• Robert Kimmel Smith
• Karen Blumenthal
• Thomas Low
• In Memoriam: Lee Kingman Natti
• Stella Pevsner
• Joanna Cole
• John Lewis
• Elaine Moss
• Sam McBratney
• Bette Greene
• David Gale
• Jill Paton Walsh
• Virginia Buckley
• William B. Eerdmans Jr.
• Ava Weiss
• Alison Lurie
• Mitsumasa Anno

Blogs

Calling Caldecott | Family Reading |Out of the Box |Read Roger

Miscellaneous

Booklists and resources

Book Reviews of the Week

Editorials

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