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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 ...
In the early 1990s, he was among the first reviewers for The Horn Book Guide, and was a regular contributor to The Horn Book Magazine from then until his death. As an avid collector of children's books, Sieruta also maintained a blog, Collecting Children's Books, beginning in 2007.
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 ]
The Horn Book, Inc. was a publishing company Mahony created in her retirement. [4] 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.
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The Horn Book Guide said "the highlight here is the inclusion of forty poems by beloved poets; artful overlays and foldout pages provide further interest; the cursive font of Pippa's narrative may make the book difficult for some children to enjoy". [14]