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Week in Review, December 16th-20th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine: The Writer's Page: Building Something New: A Time-Travel Novel, a Global Pandemic, and a Baby Boy by Maurene Goo Horn Book Reminiscences: Memory, Storytime, and Yaya by Emma Shacochis   Calling Caldecott: Call Me Roberto by Brian...

Week in Review, December 9th-13th

  This week on hbook.com... December Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: Fanfare Edition, featuring annotations of all fifty-three books on 2024's list Rosanne Parry Talks with Roger about A Wolf Called Fire   From the November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Tomorrow by Nikki Giovanni   Calling Caldecott: Golden Gate...

Five questions for Gregory Maguire

The December issue of Notes usually just consists of Fanfare, an embarrassment of riches in itself. But we couldn’t be luckier — and we couldn’t be happier — to have a chance to interview longtime Friend of the Horn Book Gregory Maguire. Maguire wrote the 1995 adult book Wicked: The...
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Fanfare 2024 extras

Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2024 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2024 booklist here and our newly annotated list here.   Picture Books Sophie Blackall Sophie Blackall Talks with Roger A Conversation with Sophie Blackall by Julie Danielson 2019 Caldecott Medal Acceptance by...

Fanfare 2024 Annotations

Welcome to Fanfare, the Horn Book’s annual best books list! What a way to close out the Horn Book’s centennial year, with our fifty-three (think of it as one per week plus a bonus!) most highly recommended titles. All year long we’ve been exploring the theme of “Past, Present, and...

Fanfare 2024 Booklist

Below is Fanfare, a list of the books that the Horn Book editors and reviewers have selected as the best of 2024. The annotated list will be published in the December issue of Notes from the Horn Book (sign up!) and in the January/February 2025 issue of the Horn Book Magazine...

Week in Review, December 2nd-6th

  This week on hbook.com... Matthew Cordell Talks with Roger about To See an Owl   From the November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine: YA Finds Its Way by Horn Book editors The Writer's Page: My Own Sa I Gu by Paula Yoo   From the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine:...

Preview January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine

Original cover art and artist’s statement by Charly Palmer. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2024. Coverage of the 2024 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration (once again in person, and including rare Special Citation!): judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. A conversation between Jonda C. McNair and Dianne...

YA Finds Its Way

We started our centennial year of mini-themed issues with picture books in the January/February issue, and now end, fittingly, with YA in November/December. It seemed like a natural progression — from “the early years,” as we were calling it, to young adult, with stops at poetry and folklore; nonfiction and...
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