Preview May/June 2025 Horn Book Magazine

Special Issue: Perception and Reality

Original cover art by Edel Rodriguez.

Cathryn M. Mercier on the “playground” of metafiction in picture books.

A Publisher’s Perspective: Charlesbridge editor Karen Boss reflects on the “two-brained intersection” between creativity and commerce.

“Reality Reimagined”: essays and comic from Tracey Baptiste, Kamilah Cole, Adrianna Cuevas, Guojing, Frances Hardinge, Donna Barba Higuera, Shaun David Hutchinson, Jordan Ifueko, A.S. King, Sacha Lamb, Darcie Little Badger, Philip Reeve, Neal Shusterman, and Sabaa Tahir.

The Writer’s Page: Deborah Hopkinson on the “long road” to telling the true story in Evidence!: How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera.

“Real Talk”: A poem written by Shoshana Flax and illustrated by Grant Snider.


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