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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.
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 ]
Referring to the Horn Book Award, Avi wrote that it came in "the proverbial nick of time" and that he has "absolutely no doubt that the award saved Poppy", allowing him to write all the other books in the series. [3] The novel was also listed on the American Library Association's (ALA) Notable Books for Children list in 1996. [5] [6]
From primer to pleasure in reading : an introduction to the history of children's books in England from the invention of printing to 1914 with an outline of some developments in other countries (1st American ed.). Boston: The Horn book. ISBN 978-0-87675-275-3. Zipes, Jack, ed. (2006). The Oxford encyclopedia of children's literature. Oxford ...
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).
Children's literature portal; Chrysanthemum is a 1991 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Kevin Henkes. [1]The book was chosen as an ALA Notable Book and the School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and it is on the Horn Book Fanfare Honor List. [2]
By The Great Horn Spoon is a children's novel by Sid Fleischman, published in 1963. It tells the story of a 12-year-old boy and his English butler and their adventures in the California Gold Rush . It was adapted into the Disney film The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin , starring Roddy McDowall and Suzanne Pleshette .
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.