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Jun 28, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Susan Cooper |Jillian Tamaki |Laurel Weber Snyder
Illustration (c) 2024 by Selina Alko. 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. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may be ordered from:Horn Book Magazine Customer [email protected] subscription information is here.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Susan Cooper |Jillian Tamaki |Laurel Weber Snyder |Lynne Rae Perkins
Susan Cooper. Photo: Tsar Fedorsky. I’ve been here before. Long ago, in October 1974, when I was thirty-eight years old, the handsome fiftieth-anniversary issue of The Horn Book Magazine ended with a little two-page tribute from me. It was titled “A Love Letter to the Horn Book.”And it did tell a story of falling in love.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Jillian Tamaki |Laurel Weber Snyder |Lynne Rae Perkins |Carole Lindstrom
Illustration (c) 2024 by Jillian Tamaki. 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. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may be ordered from:Horn Book Magazine Customer [email protected] subscription information is here.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Laurel Weber Snyder |Lynne Rae Perkins |Carole Lindstrom |Katherine Paterson
I sat down today to write about hope, but the truth is that we live in a fractured and fragile time, and it can be hard to feel hopeful, even with regard to children’s literature. Here, where I sit in Atlanta, Georgia, the state legislature is poised to curtail and defund the American Library Association, while so many of our best-loved books are being censored nationwide.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Tanya Lee Stone |Steve Sheinkin |Alice Faye Duncan |Laurel Weber Snyder
A picture book is a dance that begins with a solitary dancer, whose success depends on sharing the stage with future partners. In truth, it is a company of dancers: author and illustrator, editor, designer, and art director. And only together will the dance flourish. But as Patrick Swayze famously said in Dirty Dancing, “This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don’t go into yours; you don’t go into mine.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Steve Sheinkin |Alice Faye Duncan |Laurel Weber Snyder |George O'Connor
Early on the morning of August 1, 2022, I joined a group of hikers at the gates of what was once the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and we set off on a six-day, 140-kilometer trek across southern Poland. Within a couple of hours, it became clear that I was in for the most challenging research trip of my writing life. I’d come to this part of Europe to explore the sites in my then-upcoming nonfiction book, Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Lesléa Newman |Laurel Weber Snyder |George O'Connor
In improv comedy there is a hard and fast rule: whatever your scene partner asks you to do, no matter how ridiculous or outrageous, you always answer, “Yes, and…” Saying no ends the scene and cuts off all possibilities. Saying yes continues the scene and provides infinite opportunities. It’s a good rule to follow in the writing life, too, whether writing silly, serious, or somewhere in between.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Roger Sutton |Rachel Payne |Pamela Brunskill |Laurel Weber Snyder
While it has been two years since relinquishing the Horn Book editorship, and two more since getting to work meant going to work, I dream almost every night about being back in the office. Recently, identical twins dressed like Stanley Kubrick’s came to visit me there. A few weeks ago, I became incensed when word came down from management that I had to plug a sweepstakes promotion right smack in the middle of the review I was writing.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Pamela Brunskill |Laurel Weber Snyder |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Allyn Johnston
Lois Ehlert (1934–2021) and I first met when I was twenty-four and an editorial assistant at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ) in San Diego. We went on to work together for thirty-five years, and we made twenty-nine books. Lois had a fondness for nicknames, and while we were working on one of our earliest picture books, Feathers for Lunch, she learned that I had been a birder since I was a girl, so she started calling me Tweeter.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Pamela Brunskill |Laurel Weber Snyder |Adrienne L. Pettinelli
Cover (c) 2024 by Jack Wong. FeaturesOn the Cover by Jack WongArtist’s statement by this issue’s cover artist and 2023 BGHB Picture Book Award winner. Horn Book Fanfare by Horn Book editorsOur choices for the best books of 2023. Boston Globe–Horn Book AwardsBGHB Awards Gallery 2023Celebrating the winners and honorees. NonfictionFiction and PoetryPicture BookThe Early Years by Horn Book editorsStarting our centennial coverage at the beginning with picture books.
