Recently added articles from The Horn Book Magazine:
Where we all join in.(Editorial)( hbook.com)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... After reading Lelac Almagor's "And Stay Out of Trouble: Narratives for Black Urban Children," published in our September/October 2009 issue, author Sharon G. Flake wanted to respond. But how? Printer schedules being what they are, it was too late to publish a response in this issue, and ...
An interview with Margaret Mahy.(Interview)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Acclaimed author Margaret Mahy has won accolades for her novels, including Carnegie Medals for both The Haunting and The Changeover. Her picture books The Great White Man-Eating Shark and The Three-Legged Cat have become classics, and Bubble Trouble, illustrated by Polly Dunbar, was ...
Reading and identity: Kiwi kids and books from afar.(Foreign Correspondence)
Nov 01, 2009; ... As a child growing up in New Zealand in the 1950s, my favorite picture books featured a policeman stopping traffic so ducks could cross a Boston street, a hard-working steam shovel, millions of cats, a curious little monkey, and many, many Little Golden Books by notable American authors ...
In defense of fanfiction.
Nov 01, 2009; ... I am not an internet phenomenon. I don't have a fan base. When people list fanfiction writers they love, I don't show up on anyone's list. I do have an account on fanfiction.net (an infamous behemoth of a fanfiction archive, and a common entry point for young fanfic readers and writers), ...
Life in the margins.(annotated editions)(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2009; ... In one of those odd literary convergences, two different annotated editions of The Wind in the Willows were published this year, one with Seth Lerer providing the added material and another with Annie Gauger doing the honors. Both titles are handsome volumes, chock-a-block with reproduced ...