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Show and Tell: Curating “The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter” 26 Aug 2013 | 09:35 pm
This wall panel near the exhibition entrance features a graphic of a children’s bookseller’s shop from eighteenth-century London. Not quite two years ago, The New York Public Library asked me to cura...
Ansel and Clair: Cretaceous Dinosaurs app review 23 Aug 2013 | 11:34 pm
In a series of apps by Cognitive Kid, child stand-ins Ansel (an alien) and Clair (a flying robot) travel through time to document Earth’s history for their planet Virtoos. In Ansel and Clair: Cretace...
Evaluating nonfiction: At War with the Empire 22 Aug 2013 | 10:07 pm
To better understand the criteria for judging children’s books, I started reading frequent Horn Book Magazine contributor Kathleen T. Horning‘s From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s...
Sign in Print 21 Aug 2013 | 09:01 pm
It’s 1995, and we’re standing on the sidewalk having a conversation. One of us is a six-year-old, and the other is her mother. We’re speaking in a language that’s not English, but this is Princeton, N...
Review of Romeo Blue 21 Aug 2013 | 08:16 pm
Romeo Blue by Phoebe Stone Intermediate Levine/Scholastic 350 pp. 6/13 978-0-545-44360-9 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-545-52070-6 $16.99 Romeo Blue is the best sort of sequel: one ...
Beat the heat with a wintry read 20 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
There’s something to be said for reading seasonal books as the year goes on, but it’s also fun to mix and match with abandon. Take, for instance, John Smelcer’s novel Lone Wolves (Leapfrog Press, Sept...
Build your character with the Horn Book! 19 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
Registration is now open for the 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards and Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium, October 4th and 5th at Simmons College. Cathie Mercier, Katrina Hedeen, and I are still shaping...
“Myth, Magic, and Making Stuff Up” with Mr. Gaiman 16 Aug 2013 | 10:44 pm
On Saturday, August 3rd, fellow Horn Booker Shara and I had the pleasure of attending Neil Gaiman’s lecture “Myth, Magic, and Making Stuff Up” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Being a devoted Gaimanph...
An Interview with Robert Cormier 16 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
by Anita Silvey Beyond the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier is being published by Knopf on April 21, 1985. This interview, conducted at Robert Cormier’s home in Leominster, Massachusetts, took place o...
The Best of Youth 15 Aug 2013 | 09:22 pm
I just finished reading The Best of Youth by Michael Dahlie (W.W. Norton & Co., 2013). In it, aspiring twenty-something author Henry agrees to ghostwrite a YA novel for a respected Hollywood actor nam...
