#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: Mar/Apr #HBMag @marjorieingall.bsky.social on the pleasures and pitfalls of picture-book biographies; @ebgoodale.bsky.social #TalkswithRoger; #HBWomensHistoryMonth; February #HBHerald; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

E. B. Goodale Talks with Roger Robin and the Stick is the first in a projected series of three small-scale picture books by E. B. Goodale about a young child finding and establishing his-her-their (you choose) place in the world ou...

#TalkswithRoger: @ebgoodale.bsky.social talks with Roger Sutton about ROBIN AND THE STICK (Abrams): "It was important to me that readers should be able to have a direct emotional line to and relatability with Robin." www.hbook.com/story/e-b-go...

#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview March #NotesfromtheHornBook w/ #5Qs for Shamar Knight-Justice; @chrystaldgiles.bsky.social #TalkswithRoger; #HBWomensHistoryMonth; register for @jerrycraft.bsky.social 's #ZenaSutherland Lecture; #StPatricksDay; 1st day of #spring; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

Chrystal D. Giles Talks with Roger With Listen to the Girls, Chrystal D. Giles gives us one singular girl, Calla, who finds and creates community when she learns that a beloved teacher has been accused of sexually harassing former stud...

#TalkswithRoger: @chrystaldgiles.bsky.social talks with Roger Sutton about LISTEN TO THE GIRLS ( @randomhousekids.bsky.social ): "I try my best in all of my work to bring the community into the heart of the story." www.hbook.com/story/chryst...

#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: March/April #HBMag Writer's Page column by @sarapennypacker.bsky.social ; Katie Yamasaki #TalkswithRoger; #HBWomensHistoryMonth; We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices virtual event AND #MassFreedomToRead Advocacy Day; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

Katie Yamasaki Talks with Roger Ripples in a river are just the surface of Katie Yamasaki’s picture book, which gently leads readers to consider connections between themselves and others, and what can be done to nourish ourselves, o...

#TalkswithRoger: Katie Yamasaki talks with Roger Sutton about RIPPLES (Norton): "I always hope kids will feel like they have some agency." www.hbook.com/story/katie-...

#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: March/April #HBMag Table of Contents, Editorial, and cover surprise; @jashar.bsky.social #TalkswithRoger; #HBWomensHistoryMonth; #InternationalWomensDay; #Purim; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

Jashar Awan Talks with Roger I talked with author-illustrator Jashar Awan about his new picture book Loops just days after ALA announced he was a Caldecott Honor recipient for his last picture book Every Monday Mabel. Both books ...

#TalkswithRoger: @jashar.bsky.social talks with Roger Sutton about LOOPS ( @simonkids.bsky.social ): "I want to make sure that whatever a kid gets from my books, they get something positive." www.hbook.com/story/jashar...

#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: January/February #HBMag #BGHB25 #Nonfiction speeches by @ohtruth.bsky.social , Anita Yasuda, @yukoart.bsky.social , + Candace Fleming; #TalkswithRoger x2; #HBFamilyReading; #HBBlackHistoryMonth; early February's #HBHerald; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

Chana Stiefel and Susan Gal Talk with Roger Recently I had to have an MRI after a fall in the snow. After the exam was complete and the tech came back into the room, I asked her why I didn’t need to remove my wedding ring for the test. She said...

#TalkswithRoger: @chanastiefel.bsky.social and Susan Gal talk with Roger Sutton about AWE! (Scholastic): "CS: I think kids are natural repositories of awe because everything's new to them and fresh." www.hbook.com/story/chana-...

Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris Talk with Roger Partners in crime since childhood, now grown-up friends writer Mac Barnett andillustratorShawn Harriscollaborate onThe Future Book, in which everything abouttomorrowlooksthe samebut,somewhere along th...

#TalkswithRoger: Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris talk with Roger Sutton about THE FUTURE BOOK (Knopf/ @randomhousekids.bsky.social ): "MB: Coming into contact with things that you don’t understand is the fundamental experience of being a child" www.hbook.com/story/mac-ba...

#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: 2025 in review; February #NotesfromtheHornBook w/ #5Qs for Chanel Miller; Tracy Wolff #TalkswithRoger; #LunarNewYear; #Ramadan; #HBBlackHistoryMonth; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

Tracy Wolff Talks with Roger The popular YA-adult, fantasy-romantasy author Tracy Wolff ventures into middle-grade world-building in The Aftermyth. Penelope is looking forward to enrolling in Anaximander’s Academy, which, even on...

#TalkswithRoger: Tracy Wolff talks with Roger Sutton about THE AFTERMYTH (Aladdin/ @simonkids.bsky.social ): "This book flipped the Pandora’s box myth, and we’ll look at others as the series goes on." www.hbook.com/story/tracy-...

Amber McBride Talks with Roger The Leaving Roomdoesn’t start with much — a girl in a room talking to herself. But I knew, from interviewingAmber McBrideaboutGone Wolf, to trust that nothing was necessarily as it seemed.

#HBBlackHistoryMonth: @ambsmcbride.bsky.social #TalkswithRoger about THE LEAVING ROOM www.hbook.com/story/amber-... #BlackHistoryMonth @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

Alexs Pate Talks with Roger With his national teacher-training program, The Innocent Classroom, Alexs Pate explores a new paradigm for learning.Good, Pate’s picture book for young children (illustrated by Tequitia Andrews), puts...

#HBBlackHistoryMonth: Alexs Pate #TalkswithRoger about GOOD www.hbook.com/story/author... #BlackHistoryMonth @capstonepub.bsky.social

#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: January #NotesfromtheHornBook w/ #5Qs for Hyewon Yum; @adibkhorram.bsky.social #TalkswithRoger; #CallingCaldecott x2 (including the mock vote results!); + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

Adib Khorram Talks with Roger When ninth-grader Dayton, on a dare, shouts out a slur at a visiting poet, another boy, Farshid, wonders what that word —One Word, Six Letters— means for himself. Below, I talk with author Adib Khorra...

#TalkswithRoger: @adibkhorram.bsky.social talks with Roger Sutton about ONE WORD, SIX LETTERS (Holt/ @mackidsbooks.bsky.social ): "As Dayton and Farshid became people, I found myself remembering other people I had known who were just like them." www.hbook.com/story/adib-k...

#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: Nov/Dec #HBMag #HolidayHighNotes + Jan/Feb #HBStars; Nov #NotesfromtheHornBook with #5Qs for Laura Amy Schlitz; #CallingCaldecott x2; @taekeller.bsky.social #TalkswithRoger; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

Tae Keller Talks with Roger In Newbery Medalist Tae Keller's When Tomorrow Burns, middle schoolers Nomi, Arthur, and Vi — once inseparable childhood friends — need to come back together to face an ecological threat.

#TalkswithRoger: @taekeller.bsky.social talks with Roger Sutton about WHEN TOMORROW BURNS (@randomhousekids.bsky.social): "I think reading is a safe place to explore scary things." www.hbook.com/story/tae-ke...

#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: Sep/Oct #HBMag Cadenza by Shawn Harris; Yuyi Morales #TalkswithRoger; #CallingCaldecott x2; #5Qs for Hollins University's @dulemba.bsky.social; #Diwali; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

Yuyi Morales Talks with Roger Inspired by her own community advocacy for the environment in the Mexican town where she lives, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner (for Dreamers) Yuyi Morales explores what it can mean for children t...

#TalkswithRoger: Yuyi Morales talks with Roger Sutton about LITTLE REBELS (Porter/Holiday): "We are all trying to find what kind of rebel we are." www.hbook.com/story/yuyi-m...

Amber McBride Talks with Roger The Leaving Roomdoesn’t start with much—a girl in a room talking to herself. But I knew, from interviewingAmber McBrideaboutGone Wolf, to trust that nothing was necessarily as it seemed.

Amber McBride #TalkswithRoger about The Leaving Room: www.hbook.com/story/amber-... @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social

#HBWeekinReview: Brian Lies #TalkswithRoger, Mac Barnett's National Ambassador speech, #CallingCaldecott, Rosh Hashanah, and more: www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

Brian Lies Talks with Roger ACat Napturns into a fantastical museum tour for the titular feline and for child readers.Brian Liesuses “colored glass, lead, gold leaf, ink, graphite and colored pencil, plaster, wood, goatskin parc...

Brian Lies #TalkswithRoger about CAT NAP (@harperkids.bsky.social @harperstacks.bsky.social): "A CAT NAP turns into a fantastical museum tour for the titular feline and for child readers..." www.hbook.com/story/brian-...

Week in Review: #Caldecott Eligibility, Alexs Pate #TalkswithRoger, "Teaching Our Stories with the #LatinxKidLitBookFestival" + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

Alexs Pate #TalkswithRoger about GOOD (@capstonepub.bsky.social): RS: I'm curious to know what kind of a child reader you were. AP: Oh, I was a voracious reader. I’ve always said that my mom fed me books like candy: www.hbook.com/story/alexs-...

#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: August #NotesfromtheHornBook with #5Qs for @mcusolito.bsky.social and @jessicalanan.bsky.social; @joannahowrites.bsky.social and @carolinekpritchard.bsky.social #TalkswithRoger; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard Talk with Roger Arnold’s “all-time favorite thing to do” is read. Right on! His favorite thing to read about is airplanes. Right on again! But why don’t his classmates understand that their favorite thing to read abo...

#TalkswithRoger: @joannahowrites.bsky.social + @carolinekpritchard.bsky.social talk w/ Roger Sutton abt THE DAY THE BKS DISAPPEARED (Disney Hyperion) "JH: We landed on the idea of a kid w/ the power to
'disappear' bks, but we had convos abt how this maps to bk banning" www.hbook.com/story/joanna...

#HBOutoftheBox #hbweekinreview Preview September/October #HornBookMagazine #HBMag; Katherine Rundell #TalkswithRoger; Are We There Yet? at Simmons University and Boston Reads Comics at the Boston Public Library; #hbreviewoftheweek www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: Jul/Aug #HBMag Special Issue #ALA Awards Table of Contents and Editorial plus The Year in Words and Pictures; @danielmiyares.bsky.social #TalkswithRoger; #ALAAC25 recap; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...