Recently added articles from The Horn Book Magazine:
March/April 2009 Horn Book.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I love the Horn Book. I give reading and writing support to kids who struggle in a K-8 charter school in Denver. As part of that job, I have a small library that I try to fill with good books. In what I do, it would be easy to drown in the alphabetic ...
May/June 2009 Horn Book.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I think Linda Sue Park has opened a can of worms (indeed, a favorite childhood book of mine was called Angelworms Creamed on Toast by McKinley Kantor) with her recollections of meals in books. I'm certain that every reader has favorite dishes that they ...
Worth the Trouble.(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2009 ... Happenstance allowed that at the same time we were preparing this special issue about "Trouble," Simmons College's Center for the Study of Children's Literature was engaged in its biennial Summer Institute with a sympathetic theme: "Crimes and Misdemeanors." For the month of ...
Nobody knows ...
Sep 01, 2009; ... Trouble come upon you when you have your eyes shut; he come on you from the side you can't see.--Julius Lester Some people dread trouble, others find it irresistible, a few bump into it accidentally. There are even folks who, like Brer Alligator, seem eager to meet trouble ...
Car trouble.(Trouble Spots)(Short story)
Sep 01, 2009; ... My brother used to torture me by being three years older--and three years smarten He knew how to goad me into arguing, then he'd set out to annihilate me. I'd argue back till I knew I had lost, then I'd resort to a quick, twisting pinch to his skinny ribcage. It always made him howl with ...