Special Issue: Awards

• Jack Gantos's Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech for Dead End in Norvelt and a profile of Gantos by his editor Wesley Adams.


• Chris Raschka's Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech for A Ball for Daisy and a profile of Raschka by his wife Lydie Raschka.


• Coretta Scott King Author Award Acceptance Speech by Kadir Nelson for Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans and a profile of Nelson by his editor Donna Bray.


• Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Acceptance Speech by Shane W. Evans for Underground and a profile of Evans by actor Taye Diggs.


• The Year in Pictures: Caldecott 2012: "everything...which is yes" by Joanna Rudge Long.


• Newbery 2012: The Year in Words by Nina Lindsay.


• Kathleen T. Horning revives a decades-old Newbery debate about "distinguished" books.


• Cadenza: Horn Book editors present the 2012 Mind the Gap Awards: The books that didn't win.


• Previous medalists reveal My Favorite Caldecott / My Favorite Newbery.