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The Horn Book Magazine, founded in Boston in 1924, is the oldest bimonthly magazine dedicated to reviewing children's literature. [1] It began as a "suggestive purchase list" prepared by Bertha Mahony and Elinor Whitney Field , proprietors of the country's first bookstore for children, The Bookshop for Boys and Girls.
Anita Silvey is an American author, editor, and literary critic in the genre of children’s literature.Born in 1947 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Silvey has served as Editor-in-Chief of The Horn Book Magazine and as vice-president at Houghton Mifflin where she oversaw children’s and young adult book publishing.
Before his tenure as editor, Heins was a teacher at the Boston English High School. During his editorship, he created the controversial Eleanor Cameron vs. Roald Dahl segment. He was also the author of two books: one being a retelling of Snow White illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman and the other Crosscurrents of Criticism: Horn Book Essays ...
She published works such as Paul Hazard's lyrical books. The Horn Book, Inc. also published books for which Mahony was editor or co-editor. Those works include: Illustrators of Children's Books: 1744-1945 (1957), Newbery Medal Books: 1922-1955 (1955), and Caldecott Medal Books: 1938-1957 (1957).
Picture Book King Stork: Howard Pyle: Trina Schart Hyman: 1974 Fiction M. C. Higgins, the Great: Virginia Hamilton: Picture Book Jambo Means Hello: Muriel Feelings: Tom Feelings: 1975 Fiction Transport 7-41-R: T. Degens: Picture Book Anno's Alphabet: Mitsumasa Anno: Mitsumasa Anno: 1976 Fiction Unleaving: Jill Paton Walsh: Nonfiction Voyaging ...
A hornbook (horn-book) is a single-sided alphabet tablet, which served from medieval times as a primer for study, [1] and sometimes included vowel combinations, numerals or short verse. [2] The hornbook was in common use in England around 1450, [ 3 ] but may have originated more than a century earlier. [ 4 ]
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Horns is a 2010 dark fantasy novel by Joe Hill and is the author's second published novel. The novel also incorporates elements of contemporary fantasy, crime fiction, and Gothic fiction.