The Horn Book Magazine
| The Horn Book Magazine | |
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| description | About books for children and young adults |
| Area of Expertise | Children's and young people's literature |
| language | English |
| First edition | 1924 |
| Frequency of publication | every two months |
| Editor-in-chief | Roger Sutton |
| Web link | hbook.com |
| ISSN |
0018-5078 |
The Horn Book Magazine is an American specialist magazine for children's and young adult literature . The magazine, founded in Boston in 1924 , appears every two months and is aimed at librarians for children and young people, booksellers and publishers, but also at authors and literary scholars. The title Horn Book is English for horn book , an early reading aid for children.
The origin of the magazine lies in a suggestive purchase list ( German suggestion list for book purchase ), the Bertha Mahony Miller and Elinor Whitney Field in 1924 out gave in Boston. Miller and Field owned the Boston Bookshop for Boys and Girls , which was founded in 1916 as the first children's bookstore in the United States by the Women's Educational and Industrial Union . The bookstore closed in 1936, but the magazine continued to exist. Horn Book Magazine was acquired by Media Source in 2009, which also acquired Library Journal and School Library Journal (SLJ) the following year .
Each issue of the magazine includes reviews of new publications in children's and youth literature, as well as articles and essays on developments in the field. Once a year the editors choose their selection of the best new publications of the year under the name Fanfare .
literature
- Leonard Marcus, Leonard S. Marcus: Minders of make-believe: idealists, entrepreneurs, and the shaping of American children's literature . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Orlando (FL) 2008, ISBN 0395674077 .
Web links
- A Little History of The Horn Book Magazine ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Horn Book Magazine website
- 2015 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winners