Recently added articles from The Horn Book Magazine:
January/February Horn Book.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Like Roger Sutton ("The Confounded Critic"), I was somewhat bewildered but intrigued by Weetzie Bat when she hit the literary scene. I bought the first book, then the sequels, for my daughter, who was then fourteen years old. I also recommended them to ...
Monsters and readers.(editorial)
May 01, 2009 ... Daniel Pennac's The Rights of the Reader (reviewed on page 331) closes with a series of brief expositions of those ten rights (ten because "it's the number of the Commandments, and it's gratifying, for once, to see them used to authorize rather than prohibit") that begins, most ...
Still hot: great food moments in children's literature.(Essay)
May 01, 2009; ... Many years ago, I heard a sociologist--alas, I have forgotten her name--talk about immigration. She said that when people immigrate to a new country, there are four things about their original culture that they lose, one by one. First to go is the mode of dress. Within one generation, ...
Linda Sue's Lentil Salad.(Recipe)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... Book + apple = bliss. That was a mathematical truth for me when I was young. I ate my way through entire orchards, which is probably why I have not eaten an apple out of hand since I was about thirteen. These days, I have two regular reading-and-eating habits. At home I almost ...
An interview with Sarah Dessen.(Interview)
May 01, 2009; ... As cyclically happens, there's a lot of attention being paid right now to boys reading or, more exactly, boys not reading. But what about the girls? In the interests of fair play, following the money, and not ignoring what's already on the radar, I decided it was time for a chat with YA ...
Truth can be beauty, beauty can be food, food can be love.(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... When I am awake in the night, my insomniac mind catches on whatever anxious thought floats by first. This time around, the thought was for our daughter, in the throes of a friendship rift. I lay there in the dark, harboring ungenerous feelings about the other parties involved, aware of how ...
Growing Up with Joan Aiken: A Daughter's View.(Brief biography)
May 01, 2009; ... It is usually assumed that Joan Aiken's famous writer father, Conrad Aiken, would have been her most formative literary influence, or even her stepfather, British author Martin Armstrong. Less often mentioned, but of huge importance in the development not only of her writing but of her ...
So Much in Love.(The Three Musketeers)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... In fifth grade, we boys were so much in love with The Three Musketeers that we pretended to be them and their servants Planchet, Mousqueton, Bazin, and Grimaud (you see I remember) and to have a lunch of fried chicken and Anjou wine on the ramparts of besieged La Rochelle. People who have ...
Reading under the midnight sun: implications of worldview.(Field Notes)(Essay)
May 01, 2009; ... When I first took my oldest son into the idyllic Minnesota forest of my childhood, he sat rigidly by my side, eyeing the trees above him through veiled and suspicious eyes, as though we were surrounded by a host of super-sized aliens. "Mom," he whispered, "let's get out of ...
sol y sombra.(Poem)
May 01, 2009; ... sol that hemingway summer of 1960 we followed the portable bull ring south from malaga: young and strong and slim with matching green olivetti portables and a bag of books and paper and we were hungry hungry always hungry each evening at casa quitapefia we would ...
What makes a good science book?(What makes a good ...?)
May 01, 2009; ... Google "best books for children," and you'll get lists of (mostly) fiction books characterized by imaginative writing and excellent pictures--great stories with captivating illustrations. Why should the elements of a good science book be any different? As far as engaging stories go, ...
Book & bar man.(books and reading)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I'd love to step into a book and join my favorite characters for dinner. Even more desirable, I'd like to take many of them out on the town for cocktails. For instance, wouldn't you love to take the Bad Hat from the Madeline books to the Bemelmans' bar at ...
Beatrice Boutignon: Not All Animals Are Blue: A Big Book of Little Differences.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Beatrice Boutignon Not All Animals Are Blue: A Big Book of Little Differences; illus, by the author 48 pp. Kane/Miller 3/09 ISBN 978-1-933605-96-8 $15.95 (Preschool) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Each double-page spread in this French import features a ...
Ed Briant: Don't Look Now.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Ed Briant Don't Look Now; illus, by the author 32 pp. Porter/Roaring Brook 5/09 ISBN 978-1-59643-345-8 $16.95 g (Primary) Playing in a wading pool, two brothers want whatever toy the other has and employ the old "don't look now" ruse to distract the other ...
Jacqueline Davies: Tricking the Tallyman.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Jacqueline Davies Tricking the Tallyman; illus, by S. D. Schindler 40 pp. Knopf 4/09 ISBN 978-0-375-83909-2 $17.99 g Library edition ISBN 978-0-375-93909-9 $20.99 (Primary) Phineas Bump's unexpected arrival in the hamlet of Tunbridge, Vermont, ...
Jack Gantos: The Nine Lives of Rotten Ralph.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Jack Gantos The Nine Lives of Rotten Ralph; illus, by Nicole Rubel 32 pp. Houghton 5/09 ISBN 978-0-618-80046-9 $16.00 (Preschool, Primary) Thirty-three years of rottenness take a toll on a guy. Starting with 1976's Rotten Ralph, Sarah's incorrigible cat has ...
Mordicai Gerstein: A Book.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Mordicai Gerstein A Book; illus, by the author 40 pp. Roaring Brook 4/09 ISBN 978-1-59643-251-2 $16.95 g (Primary) "What's my story?" asks a girl on an otherwise blank front flap. The title page answers: "Once, in A BOOK ... there lived a family of ...
Yumi Heo: Ten Days and Nine Nights.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Yumi Heo Ten Days and Nine Nights; illus, by the author 40 pp. Schwartz & Wade/Random 5/09 ISBN 978-0-375-84718-9 $16.99 Library edition ISBN 978-0-375-94715-5 $19.99 (Preschool, Primary) In this simply told story, a little Korean American girl ...
Ted Hughes: My Brother Bert.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Ted Hughes My Brother Bert; illus, by Tracey Campbell Pearson 40 pp. Farrar 3/09 ISBN 978-0-374-39982-5 $16.95 (Primary) "Pets are the Hobby of my brother Bert," an unnamed young girl announces to begin this exaggerated romp of a rhyming picture book. At ...
Helen Lester: Tacky Goes to Camp.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... * Helen Lester Tacky Goes to Camp; illus, by Lynn Munsinger 32 pp. Houghton 5/09 ISBN 978-0-618-98812-9 $16.00 (Preschool, Primary) Tacky the Penguin returns for a seventh adventure, his funniest yet. Tacky is a happy camper, but of course not a typical ...