The Horn Book Magazine -- May/June 2012

 







May/June 2012 Horn Book Magazine cover

   Table of Contents


 









































































































Features


Roger Sutton
10

What Hath Harry Wrought?
How Harry Potter changed children’s publishing.


Uma Krishnaswami

19

No Joke!
Yes, multicultural fiction can be funny.



Barbara Bader
27
Cleveland and Pittsburgh Create a Profession
Early children’s librarianship in
two cities of the industrial heartland.



Jane Yolen
35A Children’s Books Poetics
Pithy takes on seven iconic authors.

Rebecca Donnelly
41
Hitting the Ground of Joy
Finding shared pleasures in children’s literature.



Columns



Roger Sutton

7

Editorial
We Belong Together
What will it mean to promote reading in a post-book world?



Leonard S. Marcus

44

Sight Reading
Good Vibrations
Picture books and color.



Hilary Rappaport

50

Books in the Home
On the Rights of Reading and Girls and Boys
Equality for all.


April Spisak
54




122

From The Guide
Mythology
A selection of reviews from The Horn Book Guide.


Elissa Gershowitz
and Leo Landry

132

Cadenza
If Babies Ran the Horn Book
We go baby crazy, here and throughout the issue.



Reviews


65



Departments


5
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May/June Starred Books
Impromptu
Index to Advertisers
Index to Books Reviewed



Cover © 2012 by José-Luis Olivares.
Page 1 art from Ruby Lu, Brave and True.
Illustration © 2004 by Anne Wilsdorf.


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