Our new home
The stress of moving our office location to the Simmons campus is finally over and now we can relax in our new digs. Wish you were here! The post Our new home appeared first on The Horn Book.
View ArticleWhat’s a children’s librarian to do?
Twice in the past week I’ve been asked to opine publicly about the future of books and libraries for children, first at the NYLA conference in White Plains and then at the investiture of Eileen Abels...
View ArticleThat gal down the hall
Cathie Mercier and the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature are profiled this week in the Simmons GSLIS newsletter. I’d be bragging about how the Horn Book team (“Goldilocks and the Free...
View ArticleOur secret garden
(Thanks to Kitty for the name!) During lunch break, Martha, Kitty, and I were walking around our new Fenway ‘hood and we came across the James P. Kelleher Rose Garden. After being called “girls” by two...
View ArticleParty down
Children’s Books Boston invites you to our second annual fall get-together on Thursday, September 11 from 5:30PM to 8PM in the Paresky Center at Simmons College. We perhaps wisely decided against trust...
View ArticleChildren’s Books Boston reminder
Don’t forget the Children’s Books Boston get-together tomorrow, 5:30 to 8, at the Simmons College Paresky Center, 300 The Fenway. We request a five-dollar donation to cover refreshments, and attendees...
View ArticleMake way for goslings
On my way to work this morning, I saw a modern-day Officer Michael helping a gaggle of adolescent goslings across the Fenway. When I got to work, I found out that Kitty was about a minute ahead of me...
View ArticleAre we doing it white?
Martha and I are teaching a class–that is, we are trying to teach a class, which has thus far been cancelled twice due to snow–on reviewing, and we’ve just assigned the students Malinda Lo’s...
View ArticleSynthia Saint James at Simmons
(Say *that* three times fast!) Next week, visual artist, author, and illustrator Dr. Synthia Saint James will be on the Simmons College campus as the Eileen Friars Leader-in-Residence. Right now some...
View ArticleGender by the numbers
A poster in our office lobby for the upcoming Simmons International Women’s Film Forum alerted me to the interestingly low–29%–number of female protagonists in films for children.* I guess it ain’t all...
View ArticleGoodnight Paresky Room
With apologies to Margaret Wise Brown, a recap of Homecoming inspired by the homiest book of them all. In the Paresky room, there were tweeting phones and thought balloons with pictures of the places...
View Article2015 Simmons Summer Institute: Homecoming
What an invigorating weekend here on the Simmons College campus, as current students, alums, authors, illustrators, teachers, librarians, academics, booksellers, book lovers, etc., etc., etc., came...
View ArticleHaunted home
With the theme “Homecoming,” Simmons College’s Center for the Study of Children’s Literature held its biennial Institute this weekend; the Horn Book staff provides an excellent summary. (And Shoshana...
View Article“What do you think of my labyrinth?”
As many of you know, the Horn Book offices are located on the Simmons College campus. Today, looking out my window, I can see a construction crew working on Simmons’s newest addition: a labyrinth. Now,...
View ArticleHarry Potter’s World, right on our doorstep
As you may have surmised if you keep up with the Horn Book, there are quite a few Harry Potter fans among us. So when we saw that our host campus, Simmons College, had a Harry Potter exhibit in its...
View ArticleCivic Engagement Fair at Simmons
Thanks to Simmons for hosting a Civic Engagement Fair today, featuring: the Boston Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement, City Hall to Go Truck, Emerge MA, Fenway Alliance, League of Women Voters MA,...
View ArticleThank you, David
Susan and David Bloom with their daughter Johanna; photo courtesy of Cathie Mercier Former director of Simmons’s Center for the Study of Children’s Literature and Horn Book Magazine reviewer Susan...
View ArticleAnd the world will be better for this
I hope I see some of you this weekend at Simmons’ Summer Children’s Literature Institute, (im)possible dreams. I had the coffee the other day with BPL children’s services manager Farouqua Abuzeit, and...
View Article2017 Simmons Summer Institute: (im)possible dreams
This past weekend was the biannual Summer Children’s Literature Institute at Simmons College, this year titled (im)possible dreams. The Institute began Thursday evening with a conversation between...
View ArticleAlways something there to remind me
Here is the sole note I took during last weekend’s “(im)possible dreams,” Simmons College’s Summer Institute, but for the life of me I cannot recall what it was intended to recall. Any ideas? Candy?...
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