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After interviewing Eoin Colfer about Illegal I’m happy to welcome him back, joined this time by co-author Andrew Donkin, to talk about their follow-up, Global, again illustrated by Giovanni Rigano.

From the January/February 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

From the January/February 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

Alexander and Coulter have created a powerful counternarrative in their efforts to answer the question, “How do you tell a story about slavery?” Starting before Africans were forcibly brought to the Americas, both text and art reinforce the family structures, cultural traditions, and ways of life Africans enjoyed. When chattel slavery enters the story and white colonizers work “to steal them away / from their lives / and sell them / in America,” the pain of separation and removal is poig...

From the January/February 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

From the January/February 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

In this at once funny and moving novel, it’s been just over a year since seventeen-year-old Asher’s mom died in a car accident, and “everyone says...

From the January/February 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

“You are you, and I am I. We are people…This makes us different from most of the things on Earth.” Head crowned with a mass of brown curly hair, this...

You might guess that a children’s book editor who publishes a lot of fantasy grew up loving the Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Prydain, but Fear of Flying? Liesa Abrams, Vice President and Editor in Chief of the new Random House Children’s Books imprint Labyrinth Road, talks about how the young reader she was became the editor she is today.