Kevin Hawkes

Jun 12, 2024 | hbook.com | Barbara McClintock |Steve Sheinkin |M. T. Anderson |Kevin Hawkes

"An' they hollo'd, and they blew their horns, and general book pandemonium ensued..."Illustration (c) 2024 by Barbara McClintock. From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here.

Jun 10, 2024 | hbook.com | M. T. Anderson |Kevin Hawkes |Frank Morrison |Elizabeth Wein

M. T. Anderson: The first time I went to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, I was overwhelmed. I was a young man with only a couple of novels out, which had sold only a handful of copies, mainly to wincing relatives. This was back when YA was still considered the embarrassing side-door of the publishing industry, a dead-end genre that could never match the literary heights of Knopf novels about dreary infidelities in Connecticut.