Lynne Rae Perkins

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.

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.

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.

Jun 24, 2024 | hbook.com | Lynne Rae Perkins |Carole Lindstrom |Katherine Paterson |Duncan Tonatiuh

Illustrations (c) 2024 by Lynne Rae Perkins. Being a fine arts major at a large public university opened my ­small-town mind to a myriad of ideas, in a myriad of ways. And I loved it. My ­education there was not particularly strong on how to survive after ­college. Which I truly believe, in a way, is okay. I am not a proponent of let’s-turn-colleges-­into-widget-makers. Still, a few tips would have been helpful. I graduated with high honors, woefully unqualified to do much of anything.

Nov 2, 2023 | hbook.com | Lynne Rae Perkins |Amanda Lawrence

November/December 2023 Horn Book Magazine Table of Contents. Cover from The Magical Snowflake. Written by Bernette Ford. Illustration © 2023 by Erin K. Robinson. Published by Boxer Books Limited. The 2023 Zena Sutherland Lecture by Zetta ElliottAn excerpt from "'I Am Myrtilla's Daughter': Weaving Scotland, Slavery, and Siths into Historical Fantasies."EditorialCentennial Eve by Elissa GershowitzPlanning for the HB100.