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1 week ago | 
hbook.com | Roger Sutton
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored byWhen the widely beloved children’s book icon Tomie dePaola died in 2020, he left behind a brief, unillustrated manuscript, itself (gently) concerned with the subject of death. Below, I talk with Barbara McClintock about how she and Laurent Linn, art director at Simon & Schuster, turned that manuscript into Where Are You, Brontë?
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2 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Roger Sutton
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2025, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored byIbram X. Kendi very much keeps his audience in mind for Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers. 1.
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3 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Roger Sutton
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2025, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored byTV director Oz Rodriguez collaborates with Pura Belpré Award winner Claribel A.
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3 weeks ago | 
timescitizen.com | Roger Sutton
To the Editor:It’s way past time that EMS be considered an Essential Service for all residents of Hardin County. God bless the taxpayers of Eldora, Iowa Falls and Ackley for doing what they have done to provide life care services beyond their city limits.
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3 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Roger Sutton
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2025, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored byBand Nerd Lucy thinks that becoming first chair flute might solve everything, but this graphic novel, illustrated by Emma Cormarie, explores the complications in her quest.
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3 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Roger Sutton
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2025, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored byIn the picture book A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet, we learn how the “fortunately, unfortunately” game plays out in the natural world.
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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Roger Sutton
What happens when a hero of middle-grade readers everywhere and a leading theorist of comics get together? In The Cartoonists Club, Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud bring story and theory — and heart — together for a comic about making comics. Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored byWhat happens when a hero of middle-grade readers everywhere and a leading theorist of comics get together?
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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Roger Sutton
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored byThe “We” of We Are the Scrappy Ones are a rainbow of disabled children and young people, celebrated by author and disability advocate Rebekah Taussig and illustrator Kirbi Fagan. Roger Sutton: Who did you conceive this book for? Rebekah Taussig: It was originally a poem that I wrote after I met this group of disabled teenagers.
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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Roger Sutton
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored byWinner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Chains, set in 1776 New York, Laurie Halse Anderson comes up the coast for Rebellion 1776, a novel set in Boston during extremely turbulent times. Much, as we discuss below, like today.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Roger Sutton
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored byThe author-illustrator of more than a dozen picture books for young children, Maria van Lieshout discovered a hitherto hidden piece of her family’s history that serves as the source of her first graphic novel, Song of a Blackbird. Roger Sutton: This is such a change for you.
