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The Horn Book's choices of the best books of 2021.

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.

I’m always happy to meet a fellow fan of D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, and first-novelist Julian Randall, author of Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa, and I talk below about how he married his childhood passion for mythology and fantasy with a modern tragedy — the murderous Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic — that brought his family to the United States two generations before him. And he’s a Chicagoan!

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.

With Red, Laura Vaccaro Seeger completes a picture-book trilogy begun with Green in 2012 and continued with Blue in 2018. (We talk below about the possibilities of yellow, but Laura insists she is done.)