Recently added articles from The Horn Book Magazine:
Real reading.(Editorial)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... There used to be a fairly neat division between reading-for-school and reading-for-fun. Of course, there was some blurring of the lines--book reports, for example, could stem from pleasure reading, and there was a certain competitive thrill to racing up through the colors of the SRA ...
Let's call her Mrs. Shropsharp.(Stories out of school)
Sep 01, 2008; Kinney, Jeff ... I attended an all-boys' high school, and it could be an unforgiving place. If you were so unfortunate as to drop your lunch tray in the cafeteria, you could count on a ten-minute invective-filled harangue from the entire student body. The law of the jungle ruled in the lunch room, the gym, ...
An interview with Pat Scales.(Interview)
Sep 01, 2008; Sutton, Roger ... Currently president of ALA's Association for Library Service to Children, Pat Scales is a longtime advocate for children's reading. She has created programs adopted across the country for using books in the classroom, reading with parents, and supporting intellectual freedom. After serving ...
Teaching art in America.(Stories out of school)
Sep 01, 2008; Sis, Peter ... I grew up in the country of Czechoslovakia, which doesn't exist anymore. Because of my creative bent as a child, I became an art student, first at the High School of Applied Arts and then at the Academy of Applied Arts. Czechoslovakia was a Communist country then, but art education had a ...
Children's Literature Application Test.(CLAT: Level III)
Sep 01, 2008; Edinger, Monica ... Instructions: CLAT is designed to test your knowledge of child readers. Please read the following items carefully before choosing your answers. Do not peek at the solutions. Whenever you don't know the answer, guess. (We recommend the number 3 and the letter B when all else fails.) Do the ...
Reading became my life.(Stories out of school)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008; Myers, Walter Dean ... My last two years in high school were absolutely miserable. In the junior and senior years of a highly competitive school, one's whole existence becomes the frantic preparation to enter the next highly competitive situation. Even the most casual conversations turned to SAT scores and grade ...
Love and geometry.(Stories out of school)(Poem)
Sep 01, 2008; Mills, Claudia ... I have saved all the poems I wrote in high school. Most of them are poems of desperate, despairing, unrequited love, to a boy I called Apollo (real name: Dick T.), written in a style heavily influenced by Sara Teasdale and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Here is one of them: <Pre> Written ...
A few truths about school visits.(Field Notes)
Sep 01, 2008; Shahan, Sherry ... When I go to schools as a visiting author, I fret over the Q&A session at the end of my presentation. I don't mind the silly questions that really come from kids, such as "Have you ever met J. K. Rowling?" It's the ones that are prepared in classrooms before my visit that I dread. I know ...
Getting to school.(Stories out of school)
Sep 01, 2008; Tan, Shaun ... I grew up in a suburb without any kind of public transport whatsoever. As you can imagine, getting around was quite difficult if you didn't drive a car--a problem acutely felt by us children. One day, however, some municipal workers, digging trenches for underground cables, struck what ...
Fortification.(Stories out of school)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008; Hale, Shannon ... I had a sacred tradition--on the last day of summer, armed with a book, a blanket, a Sprite, and unsalted saltine crackers, I would plop down in a shady backyard spot and read all day. I remember most fondly the years I read Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt and The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin ....
Not an essay.(Stories out of school)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008; Nelson, Kadir ... As a kid, I prided myself on being a good student. However, it wasn't until my sophomore year in high school that I realized I wasn't really being challenged in my classes, which were generally pretty basic. That year, I found myself in an advanced English course with a teacher who was a ...
Schools of thought.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008; Coats, Karen ... Over the door to the Children's Reading Room of the Hopkinton (Massachusetts) Public Library, a classically sentimental poem by Emilie Poulsson once read: <Pre>Books are keys to wisdom's treasure;Books are gates to lands of pleasure;Books are paths that upward lead; ...
Books are keys to wisdom's treasure.(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2008; Coats, Karen ... English professors who study children's literature are often mildly defensive about their work, and with good reason. As Francelia Butler noted in a 1973 article in the New York Times, "To many humanists ... the most embarrassing literature to study is not [about] autoeroticism or ...
Books are paths that upward lead.(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2008; Enciso, Patricia ... About the same time that English professors formed the Children's Literature Association, Charlotte Huck and Janet Hickman began Ohio State University's first doctoral program in children's literature in education. No cuddly bunnies here, either, because their vision bridged the ...
Books are gates to lands of pleasure.(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2008; Jenkins, Christine A. ... The field of library and information science (LIS)--specifically the specialization of youth services librarianship--has had a longstanding interest in texts for young readers. Indeed, most of the major U.S. book review journals for children's and young adult books have been published by ...
Books are friends. Come, let us read.
Sep 01, 2008; Trites, Roberta Seelinger ... In reading these three disciplinary-based essays, I can't help noticing how they share a subtle concern with status and ownership. Surely this concern is inspired by the obsession with the marketplace that informs the study of children's literature in the United States, regardless of where ...
Silent voices.(Stories out of school)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008; Lester, Julius ... One of the ironies of racial segregation was that it prevented the best and the brightest in the black community from sharing their intelligence and creative gifts with the wider society. And so in the 1940s and 1950s many of those best and brightest black minds in America taught in public ...
One Child Left Behind.(Poem)
Sep 01, 2008; Lewis, J. Patrick ... <Pre> One Child Left Behind After Charles Causley Damien Dyer, late for school,bundled up in his ridicule.Heart aflutter, brain on fire,was Damien "D/D Minus" Dyer. He wished that he had stayed in bed;they kissed him off to school instead.For it ...
An art school?(Stories out of school)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008; Wiesner, David ... A guy walked into my tenth-grade art class at Bridgewater-Raritan High School in New Jersey and changed my life. Sounds like the setup for a classic punch line, but this was no joke. This guy had graduated from my school two years earlier and was now a student at someplace called the Rhode ...
I still wish.(Stories out of school)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008; Alexie, Sherman ... I was popular in high school. At various points, I was class president, student body officer, captain of the basketball team, and prom royalty. But I was also one of only five Native Americans in a white school. I was popular and a member of a historically oppressed racial minority. ...