Cover from One Foggy Christmas Eve. Illustration © 2024 by Kerilynn Wilson.

Features

Finding Hope in the Abyss by Meg Medina
An excerpt from the 2024 Zena Sutherland Lecture.

L’Heure Joyeuse by Viviane Ezratty and Hélène Valotteau
The first children’s library in France turns 100.

YA Finds Its Way by Horn Book editors
Continuing our centennial coverage with ­discussion of this issue’s mini-theme.

Tomorrow by Nikki Giovanni
A poem.

Columns

Editorial

All Is Calm by Elissa Gershowitz
Finding moments of quiet during a busy season.

The Writer’s Page

My Own Sa I Gu by Paula Yoo
Reflections on telling a difficult true story about the 1992 Los Angeles uprising for teens.

The Writer’s Page

Building Something New by Maurene Goo
A YA time-travel novel, a global pandemic, and a baby boy.

Horn Book Reminiscences

Memory, Storytime, and Yaya by Emma Shacochis
A former intern on sharing the joy of books and the Horn Book with her grandmother.

Reviews

Holiday High Notes
Selected new and reissued holiday titles.

Book Reviews

Departments

November/December Starred Books

Impromptu

Index to Advertisers

Index to Books Reviewed

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