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Fifteen years ago, I wrote an essay for The Horn Book Magazine, “Brave Orphans, Smelly Boys, and Girls Named Katie.” It began, “I was never a girly girl. But I loved reading about girls” — especially ones who were high spirited and misunderstood, like me. These novels, I explained, got...
Left to right: Dr. Henrietta M. Smith, Effie Lee Morris, and Dr. Claudette S. McLinn. Photo courtesy of Claudette S. McLinn. Throughout its hundred years, the Horn Book has reviewed the works of prominent BIPOC children’s librarians; their names have been mentioned within interviews, articles, book award recaps; and,...
To think that I have been reading The Horn Book Magazine for half of its lifetime! As a sophomore at the University at Albany about fifty years ago, I talked my way into a course in children’s literature offered by the graduate school of library science. The professor perched nimbly...
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...
When my first picture book was published over two decades ago, I had simply hoped to bring the story of one relatively unknown Negro League baseball pitcher to young readers. I wasn’t a fan of baseball, so I was pretty sure that was the reason I’d never heard of this...
Who would we be without the stories we read as children — or the stories we read to our children, and to our grandchildren? This is the truth: when we read our beloved stories out loud to children, cozy, side-by-side, the ribbon of love wraps around us. Together, we become...
My hope for the children’s book industry and the Horn Book is that both will continue to create and expose children to books that widen their world, not narrow it. Illustration (c) 2012 by Christy Hale from Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building. Shared with permission of the publisher, Lee...
For people whose identities are marginalized in mainstream culture, some of our most memorable experiences from childhood are painful and confusing: the times when we felt different or devalued, but we couldn’t express our feelings and therefore couldn’t get help to process them. They had nowhere to go, no outlet,...
I’m not one to pick favorites, but May (Mother’s Day! my birthday!) may be my favorite month. As may be the new May/June Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Our Centennial, with foldout cover by April Harrison from Go Forth and Tell, written by Breanna J. McDaniel. The Horn Book’s May/June...
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