Skip to main content

Notes from the Horn Book


Good News! Horn Book Magazine, one of the leading journals in the field for book reviews and articles on children's literature, has just published its first electronic newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. According to the announcement, the newsletter will "provide brief recommendations of new children’s books, interviews with writers and illustrators, and news from the children’s book world."

The first issue is full of great information. First, up is a review the winners of the the Newbery Medal (for writing) and the Caldecott Medal (for illustration), the biggest prizes in American children’s literature, both awarded annually by the American Library Association. Then, there is an interview with children's author Jon Scieszka (The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and many more) who was recently named by the Library of Congress as the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.

There is also a review of "three books to get you outside,": The Brook Book: Exploring the Smallest Streams by Jim Arnosky, Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City by Janet Schulman, and A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee. Familiar charaters from the picturebooks, Not a Box and Dog and Bear return in two new sequels that are also mentioned. Fun!

To receive the monthly newsletter, click here, sign-up, and enjoy!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fun and Inspiration

In this post, I'm sharing a few YouTube videos that have been quite inspiring and some that are just fun. Below is a TED presentation by spoken word poet and teacher, Sarah Kay . You MUST watch it and be inspired! I also watched a documentary titled, Louder Than A Bomb , about the spoken word poetry contest held in Chicago Public Schools. It was also extremely inspiring. Below is the trailer : Finally, does everyone but me know about the book, Goodnight iPad , a parody of the original by Margaret Wise Brown? Hilarious! See the YouTube video below...does it not perfectly capture what goes on in the homes of many of our children today? Reminds me of a colleague who told me she texts her children to tell them to come to dinner. The video below it is in stark contrast, titled: The Joy of Books . Enjoy!
Post a Comment
Read more

NCTE was AMAZING!

I loved NCTE --not the "getting ready to go" part, which I hate, but the actual "being there" part. I learned so much from many great educators and authors. One of the many highlights of the conference for me was the Authors' Blog session, which I chaired. Laurie Halse Anderson, Maureen Johnson, Justine Larbalestier, Barbara O'Connor, and Lisa Yee were all on the panel and let me tell you -- these women are amazing! I didn't have my camera but several of the authors have already blogged about the session--check out Laure Anderson , Barbara O'Connor , Lisa Yee and Justine Larbalestier's blog posts. During the question/answer phase of the presentation, the authors discussed and raise very important issues that I think all teachers should consider. One of the questions I asked was about receiving posts that contained personal information. Children and young adults become very connected to these authors through their books and the authors' blog...
2 comments
Read more