>March/April 08 Horn Book

by Roger Sutton
Mar 03, 2008 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
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The new issue of the Horn Book is out; online articles include Lolly Robinson's guide to alphabet books and Madelyn Travis's profile of Michael Rosen (the British one), including a gorgeous poem of his about reading:

. . . Some of these things
you may have never seen before.
But now you know them.
Some are as familiar to you as potatoes.
But these potatoes are different.

There's much more in the print edition, including a fascinating oral-history portrait of Ursula Nordstom compiled by Leonard S. Marcus from interviews he did with Nordstrom's writers and colleagues. As a companion (although she would probably sniff to see what company we're putting her in), we've resurrected the equally legendary Edna Albertson and the rejection letters that made generations of authors shake in their shoes. Save yourself from Edna's scorn and read all the web extras.
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Roger Sutton

>Edna Albertson is of course fictional, but that didn't stop a children's lit. textbook from obliviously reproducing some of her letters!

Posted : Mar 05, 2008 04:16

Anonymous

>Is the Edna Albertson piece a joke or is it true? It's funny, yet I feel like the author is pulling my leg.

Sara

Posted : Mar 05, 2008 03:59

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