Lisa Yee

Jun 5, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Lisa Yee |Kelly Yang |Nanette Sawyer |Jon Mathieu

Living in Southeast Texas as a teenager, I belonged to one of the few Asian families in our small town. My parents owned a Chinese buffet, where I worked every Saturday and many evenings. Pentecostal groups, their women’s uncut hair in sweeping updos, settled on the place in droves after their evening services, just as we were about to close. A man wearing a “Jesus Is My Homeboy” baseball cap always came on weekends and ate unthinkable quantities of salt-and-pepper crab.

Jun 3, 2024 | hbook.com | Elizabeth Wein |Anne Quirk |Liza Woodruff |Lisa Yee

Betty Flocken with Elizabeth Wein in 1968. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Wein. In 1972, when I was seven years old, I lived in Jamaica. My ­Pennsylvanian grandmother, Betty Flocken, sent me a new book every month. When Beverly Cleary’s Ellen Tebbits arrived, I read it in a single afternoon. That day inspired me to become a children’s author. When I headed to Yale at seventeen, I was already working on what would become my first published novel, The Winter Prince.

May 31, 2024 | hbook.com | Anne Quirk |Liza Woodruff |Lisa Yee

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.

May 28, 2024 | hbook.com | Liza Woodruff |Lisa Yee |Gregory Maguire |James E. Ransome

While I was attending art school in Boston in the 1990s, an illustration class piqued my interest in children’s book publishing. At that time Boston housed several publishers, the Horn Book, and Simmons College (now University), which made it a small hub for children’s literature. In a “right place, right time” moment, I was given an entrée into the world of children’s literature as an intern at the Horn Book.

May 27, 2024 | hbook.com | Yuyi Morales |Lisa Yee |Gregory Maguire |James E. Ransome

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.