Erin Kelly

Jul 2, 2024 | audible.com | Susie Dumond |Carmen Machado |Erin Kelly |Bryan Stevenson

As his 18-year-old nephew lay unconscious in a hospital bed after being shot nine times, award-winning musician and filmmaker MK Asante turned to prose, verse, and music to make sense of tragedy. Asante realized there was so much about their family's history that his nephew hadn't yet learned. In this lyrical, dynamic memoir, Asante collects letters to his nephew, journal entries, rap lyrics, prayers, funeral programs, and more to explore his family's past, present, and future.

May 10, 2024 | hbook.com | Kevin Henkes |Erin Kelly |Rita Williams-Garcia |Peter Reynolds

Earlier this year, the Horn Book's eighth (and current) editor in chief, Elissa Gershowitz, spoke with longtime editors in chief numbers six and seven: Anita Silvey (from 1985–1995) and Roger Sutton (from 1996–2021). Currently an adjunct professor at Simmons University, Silvey is an author (Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book, Roaring Brook, 2009) and frequent lecturer and guest speaker.

May 9, 2024 | hbook.com | Kevin Henkes |Erin Kelly |Rita Williams-Garcia |Peter Reynolds

The memory of my first trip to the Horn Book offices is both hazy and vividly clear. I had to do a bit of detective work to figure out the date, but I’ve deduced that it must have been in July of 1991. I’d gone with editor Susan Hirschman to Boston to speak at the Simmons College (now University) Summer Institute in Children’s Literature. Sometime after the conference I made a trip to the Horn Book offices on Beacon Hill for an arranged visit.

May 8, 2024 | hbook.com | Erin Kelly |Rita Williams-Garcia |Peter Reynolds

A fifth grader once told me — with all the blunt honesty that comes with being a ten-year-old — that her mother didn’t like any of my books. “I like your books, but she doesn’t. We just read You Go First and she didn’t like that one, either,” this girl — let’s call her Alice — said. “She said your characters should talk to their parents more. That way, the parents can solve their problems for them.”“That’s a nice thought,” I said. And it is.

Nov 19, 2023 | allthatsinteresting.com | Erin Kelly |John Kuroski

Kyron Horman disappeared while going to school on June 4, 2010. Though the investigation has centered on his stepmother Terri Moulton, the case remains unsolved today. Shortly after 8 a.m. on Friday, June 4, 2010, second grader Kyron Horman arrived at Portland’s Skyline Elementary School. It was the day of the science fair and he was setting up his project with the help of his stepmother.