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In the opening chapter of The Midnight Children, a lonely boy, Ravani, watches in wonder from his bedroom window as seven children move into the abandoned house across the street. Theres a hook.

The Horn Book editors report from the 2022 American Library Association Annual Conference

Longtime Peachtree publisher (and former owner) Margaret Quinlin moves over to Margaret Quinlin Books, one of two new Peachtree imprints (the other being Peachtree Teen). Margaret is inaugurating her list with a new book by Carmen Agra Deedy, the author of one of Peachtree’s first children’s books, published by Margaret in 1993. Seems like a good time for reflection, yes?

A large-scale solar farm planned in Mid Canterbury will have the capacity to power the district on its own and could impact power prices.

Gordon Korman published his first book (This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall!, Scholastic, 1978) when he was still a freshman in high school. Today we talk on the occasion of the publication of his hundredth book, The Fort.

From the May/June 2022 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: The Newbery Centennial.

With Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement, author Angela Joy (Black Is a Rainbow Color) and debut illustrator Janelle Washington collaborate to mourn a tragedy, honor a heroine, and engage young readers in the quest for racial justice.

With My Own Lightning, Lauren Wolk returns to the characters and setting of her first novel for young people, the Newbery Honor-winning Wolf Hollow, published in 2016. We talk below about why she went back.

Once teacher and student, now longtime collaborators, Alex Boersma and Nick Pyenson join forces in The Whale Who Swam Through Time: A 200-Year Journey in the Arctic to make us think differently about scales of size, time, and environmental change.

Maggie Stiefvater Bravely wanders into Disney intellectual property-land with the further adventures of Merida, heroine of the animated film Brave, released by Disney and Pixar in 2012.