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Belated welcome, 2025! We recently closed our next issue, so we finally have time to revisit everything that happened in 2024 — and what an exciting centennial year it was! We always enjoy looking back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA literature with our annual Horn Book Year in Review. We hope you do too.

Centennial landing page

2024 ALA Awards coverage

Horn Book Evening of Dialogue

2024 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards coverage, including our in-person awards ceremony 

Summer Reading

Horn BOO!

Holiday High Notes

Fanfare

2024 Horn Book Magazine features

• On the Cover by Jack Wong
• The Early Years by Horn Book editors
• "Reimagin[ing] Familiar Stories with Different Faces" by Kristen Joy Emack
• "Better Ask Somebody Else." by Marilyn Nelson
• Tall Tales by Noah Van Sciver and Marlena Myles
• "What Poetry's For" by Shoshana Flax
• Poetry & Folklore by Horn Book editors
• "With a Salute to All Children's Librarians": Amplifying the Work of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color by Sujei Lugo
• Nonfiction & Horn Book History by Horn Book editors
• Blowing the Horn
• The Year in Words and Pictures by Horn Book editors
• All About Awards by Horn Book editors
• The Robin Smith Picture Book Prize by Dean Schneider
• Much Ado About Middle Grade by Horn Book editors
• The Zena Sutherland Lecture: Finding Hope in the Abyss by Meg Medina
• L'Heure Joyeuse: The First Children's Library in France Turns 100 by Viviane Ezratty and Hélène Valotteau
• YA Finds Its Way by Horn Book editors
• "Tomorrow" by Nikki Giovanni

2024 Horn Book Magazine columns

• Board Book Roundup: 
  • Board Book Adaptations: When Picture Books Get on Board by Rachel G. Payne
  • A Golden Age of Board Books by Rachel G. Payne
• Cadenza: 
  • "No Poem Today" by Bob Odenkirk and Erin Odenkirk
  • 2024 Mind the Gap Awards
• Field Notes: I'm Dreaming of...Winter Reading! by Amanda Lawrence
• Horn Book Reminiscences: 
  • The Heart of the Horn Book by Roger Sutton
  • Growing Up at the Horn Book by Kari Brabander
  • A Boston Publishers Looks Back by Betsy Groban
  • A Full-Circle Moment by Claudette S. McLinn
  • Memory, Storytime, and Yaya by Emma Shacochis
• In Memoriam: 
  • To Tweeter from Curly: Thirty-Five Years of Making Picture Books with Lois Ehlert by Allyn Johnston
  • The Great Ed Young by Patricia Lee Gauch
• The Writer's Page: 
  • Yes, And... by  Lesléa Newman
  • Born in Babylon: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants by Alice Faye Duncan
  • Walking in Their Footsteps: An Impossible Escape Research Trip by Steve Sheinkin
  • The Lovely Dance: The Alone/Together Collaboration of Picture-Book Storytelling by Tanya Lee Stone
  • Mapping My Path by Jack Gantos
  • The Heroes Inside Us: Fighting for Truth, Justice and the Right to Share Our Stories by Kekla Magoon and Cynthia Leitich Smith
  • My Own Sa I Gu by Paula Yoo
  • Building Something New: A Time-Travel Novel, a Global Pandemic, and a Baby Boy by Maurene Goo

hbook.com articles

• Horn Book Reminiscences:
  • Stories That Matter by Heather Barrett
  • Small, Important Tasks by Michelle Campbell
  • What I Learned at the Horn Book by Marisa Finkelstein
  • To the Horn Book on Its Hundredth Birthday by Shoshana Flax
  • An Essential Experience by Mikayla Lawrence
  • An Industry Crash Course by Rachel Marsh
  • Internships Are What You Make of Them by Kate Smith
  • The Joy of Books by Jill Leibowitz
  • In the Company of Good Books by Monica de los Reyes
• A Report from The Rabbit Hole by Dean Schneider
• Honored by the Carle Honors by Elissa Gershowitz
• Boston Book Festival 2024
• A Shared Mysterious Universe by Allison Price
• Whoops!
• Who Was Alice-Heidi? by Renee Runge
• Horn Book Cover Madness by Julie Hakim Azzam, Kitty Flynn, Cynthia K. Ritter, and Summer Edward
• Horn Book trivia

Interviews

• Three Editors in Chief: A Conversation by Elissa Gershowitz, Anita Silvey, and Roger Sutton
• A Campfire Chat with the Boston Comic Arts Foundation
• Afikomen: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour 2024 by Shoshana Flax
• Five questions for:
  • Breanna J. McDaniel and April Harrison
  • Dean Robbins and Susanna Chapman
  • Renée Watson and Ekua Holmes by Nicholl Denice Montgomery and Horn Book editors
  • Sylvie Kantorovitz
  • Paula Yoo by Michelle Lee and Horn Book editors
  • Edel Rodriguez
  • Sarah Sax by Horn Book editors and Elisa Gall
  • Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Faith Schaffer
  • Nathalie Alonso and Rudy Gutierrez by Horn Book editors and Charlize Guerra
  • X. Fang
  • Tracey Baptiste
  • Kusum Mepani and Yasmeen Ismail
  • Gregory Maguire by Horn Book, Bethann Ritter Snyder, and Gwendolyn Snyder

Talks with Roger

• Kirby Larson and Quinn Wyatt
• Vera Brosgol
• Sophie Blackall
• Minh Lê and Dan Santat
• Rachel Lawson
• John Mendelson
• Hena Khan
• Kwame Mbalia
• Chuck Wendig
• Gayle Forman
• Kathleen Glasgow
• Daniel Nayeri and Matt Rockefeller
• Leslé Honoré
• Gennifer Choldenko
• Libba Bray
• Carole Boston Weatherford
• Matthew Cordell
• Rosanne Parry

Publishers' Previews

January/February: Books in the Middle

Lisa Yee and Dan Santat | Erin Entrada Kelly

March/April: Spring 2024

K. A. Cobell | Loren Long | Pablo Cartaya |  Minda Dentler | George Takei

May/June

Jen Wang | Erika Lee and Christina Soontornvat | Mae Respicio | Hayley Rocco and John Rocco | Jordan Ifueko

July/August: Debut Authors

Emma Hunsinger | Rob Cameron | Hannah Chung

September/October: Fall 2024

Katherine Rundell | Jasmine Warga | Codie Crowley | George M. Johnson and Charly Palmer | Christie Matheson | Sharon M. Draper

November/December: Picture Books and Graphic Novels

Hope Larson | Frank Weber | Kathryn Ormsbee and Molly Brooks

In memoriam

• Norman H. Finkelstein
• Robie H. Harris
• Dinah Stevenson
• Petra Mathers
• Kate Banks
• Laurent de Brunhoff
• Lynne Reid Banks
• Faith Ringgold
• Etienne Delessert
• Nonny Hogrogian
• Katey Howes
• Florence Minor
• Cynthia DeFelice
• James Proimos
• Dilys Evans
• Francine Pascal
• Kemie Nix
• Thomas Rockwell
• Lore Segal
• Jeanne Whitehouse
• Bruce Degen
• Nikki Giovanni
• Margaret Frith
• John Marsden
• Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Blogs

Calling Caldecott | Family Reading |Out of the Box

Miscellaneous

Booklists and resources

Book Reviews of the Week

Editorials

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