Elissa Gershowitz

Massachusetts

Editor-in-Chief at The Horn Book Magazine

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We believe you, SJP!

2 weeks ago | hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz |Hannah Peterson

Find more great Horn Book content at these links: Interviews with authors and illustrators Recommended books: reviews and themed booklists App and e-book reviews Movie reviews Event news and recaps Events calendar As people are questioning whether Sarah Jessica Parker is really reading two books a day as a Booker Prize judge, I am reminded to say: THANK YOU Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee! We all know reading is not a competition.
Greater Roxbury Book Fair 2025

2 weeks ago | hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz

Last Saturday I spent the morning at the third annual Greater Roxbury Book Fair: "Springing from the Roxbury community's deep connections to books and reading, the fair features local and aspiring authors — and showcases the creativity of the residents of Greater Roxbury."Kicking off the storytime sessions at the library was Hannah Moushabeck reading her 2023 picture book debut Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine, winner of The New England Book Award and The Arab American Book Award.
FREADOM Town Hall & Rally

2 weeks ago | hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz

Find more great Horn Book content at these links: Interviews with authors and illustrators Recommended books: reviews and themed booklists App and e-book reviews Movie reviews Event news and recaps Events calendar If you're in the DC area, check out FREADOM Town Hall & Rally on May 31 at 5:00 PM ET at the MLK Library (and streaming on YouTube @dcpubliclibrary).
From the Editor - May 2025

2 weeks ago | hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz |Cynthia K. Ritter |Shoshana Flax

With Mother’s Day (and my birthday!) just past and Father’s Day coming soon, this issue of Notes features books about families in various configurations and with differing experiences…some supernatural! (Librarians with Superpowers, anyone?) Find more at our Family Reading blog, where Summer Reading also lives... Illustration: Liza Woodruff.
Past National Ambassadors for Young People's Literature speak out

2 weeks ago | hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz

We, the former National Ambassadors of Young People’s Literature, are united in our strong opposition to the recent removal of Dr. Carla Hayden as the Librarian of Congress. As advocates for the reading lives of children and their families, we believe in promoting libraries as places for young people to learn, grow, and connect.
Librarians with Superpowers Redux 2025

3 weeks ago | hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz

Find more great Horn Book content at these links: Interviews with authors and illustrators Recommended books: reviews and themed booklists App and e-book reviews Movie reviews Event news and recaps Events calendar We often talk, somewhat tongue-in-cheekily, about "Librarians with Superpowers," but it's not really a joke: this profession requires smarts, compassion, AND fortitude...
Acoustic Rooster on PBS Kids

3 weeks ago | hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz

Find more great Horn Book content at these links: Interviews with authors and illustrators Recommended books: reviews and themed booklists App and e-book reviews Movie reviews Event news and recaps Events calendar GBH Boston's latest, lively, book-to-show offering is Acoustic Rooster based on the 2011 picture book by Kwame Alexander...
Mother's Day 2025

1 month ago | hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz

Welcome to the Horn Book's Family Reading blog, a place devoted to offering children's book recommendations and advice about the whats and whens and whos and hows of sharing books in the home. Find us on Twitter @HornBook and on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheHornBook Mother's Day is this Sunday, May 11. Here are some recommended books, articles, and blog posts featuring moms, grandmoms, mother figures, and Mother’s Day...
Roger Sutton and Harry Bliss at Harvard Book Store

1 month ago | hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz

Photo courtesy of Elissa Gershowitz. On a rainy evening earlier this week, Roger Sutton and Harry Bliss packed the house at Harvard Book Store for a conversation about Bliss's book (for adults) You Can Never Die: A Graphic Memoir. The two first met "at Maurice's farm" in 2014 when Bliss was a Sendak Fellow. You Can Never Die is Bliss's "reflections on life and his relationship with Penny, his beloved dog," a mainstay of his cartoons, who passed away.
Once a youth services librarian...

1 month ago | hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz

Photo by Shawn Miller, Library of Congress. The best youth services librarians are a special character of human. Warm, smart, creative, curious, patient, constant, strong; shaped by their service to young people, their appreciation for books and reading, the courage of their convictions, and their professional expertise in a challenging field.