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The Horn Book by Bertha Mahony
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This week on hbook.com…
From the July/August 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards:
Children’s Literature Legacy Award acceptance by Christopher Myers on behalf of Walter Dean Myers
Newbery Medal acceptance by Meg Medina and profile by R. J. Palacio
Caldecott Medal acceptance by Sophie Blackall and profile by Sergio Ruzzier, Brian Floca, Johnny Marciano, John Rocco, Edward Hemingway, Rowboat Watkins, and Doug Salati, as told to Josh Greenhut
CSK Author Award acceptance by Claire Hartfield and profile by Ronne Hartfield
CSK Illustrator Award acceptance by Ekua Holmes and profile b ..read more
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Lesa Cline-Ransome
My ALA began on Friday afternoon with a lunch hosted by Holiday House for their O’Dell Award winner Lesa Cline-Ransome, for Finding Langston. She’s a Malden girl! So we two townies had a blast with back-in-the-day. Lesa’s husband James and I discussed sartorial choices for that evening’s Event, the CSK Gala. Thank you Terry and Mary and Holiday House for a lovely time.
Kadir Nelson
So the Gala. As Horn Book readers will know, we have been spending more than a year for our part in celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Awards, culminating in our M ..read more
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Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City, an event that laid the groundwork for the first Gay Pride parade and celebrations that have evolved into a month-long recognition of LGBTQ+ identities and communities.
During my 1990s childhood in a pervasively conservative, Christian, Southern environment, I never read any overtly queer literature. I had no idea what the word gay meant, other than its being something undesirable to be called on the playground. I vaguely remember the cover of Heather Has Two Mommies, which I probably encountered at the library during ..read more
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Portrait of Louise Latimer, 1914, painted by Suzanne Warriner
Most children’s book connoisseurs have heard of New York Public Library’s Anne Carroll Moore, if only for her outspoken opinions on what was not good literature (including E. B. White’s Stuart Little). Many know of Boston Public Library’s Alice M. Jordan, whose name graces a BPL collection of rare books. Louise Payson Latimer — Director of Work with Children at Washington (DC) Public Library from 1919 to 1948 — may not be as familiar a name, but she, too, deserves a place in the pantheon. And following the ALA Annual conference in D ..read more
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Ekua Holmes. Photo courtesy of Ekua Holmes.
Congratulations to all of the 2019 awardees on the podium today. Along with you, I am deeply honored to receive this award, on its fiftieth anniversary, given in the name of Coretta Scott King — a woman whom I deeply admire for her work and legacy. I feel a specific connection because she and I both lived in Boston (where I still reside) and walked the same important streets, like Huntington Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue. Although it was an earlier decade, Coretta Scott made Boston her home while attending school at the New England Conservatory of ..read more
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Ekua Holmes is love. I am but one grateful member of an immense and inspired community that cherishes, and is beloved by, Ekua. At its heart, this community is local, centered on the place of Ekua’s birth — Roxbury, Massachusetts — via Arkansas and the U.S. American South, via Africa. Ekua’s community has widened over decades, and is now global — ancestral and otherwise. It remains intimate and in-person, while also being far-reaching and digital. A small but mighty portion of voices of Ekua’s community — friends, loved ones, fans, collaborators — are humbly rendered here. Their reflections on ..read more
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When I was a young girl, growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was lucky enough to have weekly visits with my grandmother, Thelma Shepherd Rone, whom the adults called Dearest or Day but whom I always knew as Grammie. I was a quiet little girl, but I loved listening to stories. And Grammie was a great storyteller, painting a picture for me of what life was like when she was young. She was born in Woodville, Mississippi, but her mother died in childbirth when Grammie was just three years old, and her father was killed by a lightning strike when Grammie was a teenager. So she moved to the b ..read more
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Claire Hartfield is a storyteller. It might be fair to say that she is a born storyteller, just-right words flowing through her pen with ease, creating images that allow her readers to see, to hear, even to breathe just as Claire did while writing. This gift might have come to Claire as an inherited one, passed down, like a relay runner’s baton, through many generations. Certainly it has been strengthened and honed by a lifelong commitment to research, to getting the facts right, to telling the truth.
Claire Hartfield came into the world of writing as part of a long and proud history of women ..read more
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I’ll be reporting tomorrow about My ALA but in the meantime wanted to make sure you knew we have posted the acceptance speeches and profiles of the Caldecott, Newbery, and Legacy winners, which together appear in print in the Horn Book Magazine issue being held by Carol Merrill seated to your left. Katie and Elissa are adding ALA material to the site throughout the month so keep coming back, it works ..read more
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The Iliad
adapted by Gareth Hinds; illus. by the adapter
Middle School, High School Candlewick 264 pp.
3/19 978-0-7636-8113-5 $27.99
Paper ed. 978-0-7636-9663-4 $16.99
As with his treatment of The Odyssey (rev. 11/10), Hinds offers an ambitious and compelling comics adaptation of a Homerian epic. This complex, winding tale picks up in the tenth year of the Trojan War, with a focus on an internal conflict between two Greek leaders (Achilles and King Agamemnon) as they seek to conquer the city of Troy. Zeus and the other gods and goddesses prove to be fickle and meddlesome wa ..read more