Page 8 - Roger Sutton News Today

In You Are Life, illustrated by Hannah Li, Minneapolis poet-author Bao Phi (winner of a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor for A Different Pond) addresses the reader directly to celebrate who you are. Bao and I talk below about poetry, picture books, and how and where the two can meet.

Carolyn Yoder is editorial director ofCalkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers. Calkins Creek specializes in books about American history, and, as you will see below, they take a refreshingly broad view of just what that history encompasses and how to write about it.

Former Editor in Chief Roger Sutton asks five questions of the new ninth Horn Book Editor in Chief, Elissa Gershowitz.

Elissa Gershowitz has been named Editor in Chief of The Horn Book, Inc.

The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide are the most distinguished journals in the field of children’s and young adult literature and the core of our company. Founded in 1924 by Bertha Mahony to herald the best in children’s literature, more than eighty-five years later, we are still following her lead.

In Each Night Was Illuminated, high school senior Cassie remembers secretly witnessing a disaster as a child, and the mysterious friend who saw it with her. Now that friend has returned just as an even greater crisis unfolds. Jodi Lynn Anderson — recently moved to Dakar! — and I talk spoiler-free about this ambitious story.

Kadir Nelsons re-imagining of the Caldecott Medal.

All summer weve been celebrating the Newbery Award with our May/June Horn Book Magazine special issue dedicated to the Newbery centennial (featuring this amazing Newbery cover by honoree Grace Lin), plus our annual July/August ALA Awards special issue, which featured

Heritage Open Days are returning with a Civil War re-enactment in Upton Upon Severn in September

The former Amaze shop in Malvern Link has been called an eyesore by residents.