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May/June 2012 Horn Book Magazine starred reviews
The following books will receive starred reviews in the May/June issue of the Horn Book Magazine: Animal Masquerade; by Marianne Dubuc; trans. from the French by Yvette Ghione (Kids Can) Demolition; by...
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Our Bertha
I’m over at Kidlit Celebrates Women’s History Month today, talking about Horn Book founder Bertha Mahony Miller. See also my review of a new picture book biography of one of Bertha’s great friends,...
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George Nicholson on Gerald McDermott’s Arrow to the Sun
Gerald McDermott and a young fan. Photo courtesy of ALSC. While doing the research for my article Arrow to the Sun and Critical Controversies (Sept./Oct. 2013 Horn Book Magazine), I came across several...
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Get Appy
Horn Book reviews have hit the mobile market as Book Verdict, available for free at the iTunes Store. I have just started playing with it but it seems pretty neat: including reviews taken from the Horn...
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An open letter to the self-published author feeling dissed.
image courtesy thesamerowdycrowd.wordpress.com Dear self-published author: I can imagine how frustrating it is to have your book refused possible review coverage by the Horn Book simply because it is...
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HB NB February
Carter G. Woodson —Elissa and Katie are ransacking the archives to honor Black History Month with an article every day about African American books, authors, and illustrators. Up today, Yolanda Hare’s...
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Happy Birthday to Us
Last Sunday marked the hundredth anniversary of the opening of Bertha Mahony’s Bookshop for Boys and Girls, whose “Suggestive Purchase List” begat The Horn Book Magazine and everything else we do today...
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Need a job?
With the lovely Siân Gaetano departing the Horn Book to become the children’s/YA editor of Shelf Awareness, we have an opening for an editorial assistant. See below. Position: Editorial...
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There’s only color and light
Today we are meeting with a group of consultants and some of the New York brass to rethink the Horn Book’s digital presence–the website, the Guide Online, maybe the newsletters and e-editions of our...
View ArticleR.I.P. Blanche
I was sad to hear from former Horn Book president Duncan Todd today that Blanche Egersheim, a stalwart of the Thomas Todd Company and the Horn Book for fifty years, died earlier this month at the age...
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