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A Profile of Bryan Collier
From left: Laban Carrick Hill, Alvina Ling, and Bryan Collier at the 2010 ALA Annual conference in Washington, DC. “What color was your day?” Bryan Collier often asks this question during his talks. He...
View ArticleEditorial: Don’t Speak!
What’s an award without the occasional scandal to make sure everybody’s paying attention? Marisa Tomei winning the Oscar. Wicked not winning the Tony. Rush Limbaugh being named Author of the Year. That...
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Bryan Collier’s 2014 CSK Illustrator Award Acceptance
I was inspired to create this book by Daniel Beaty’s wonderful monologue “Knock Knock.” His emotional delivery and moving text of a boy’s struggle to navigate his way toward manhood — not completely...
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A Profile of Rita Williams-Garcia: Being Eleven
From left: Kathleen T. Horning, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Rosemary Brosnan. I first met Rita Williams-Garcia three years ago, soon after One Crazy Summer was published. Prior to that, though, I had...
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Rita Williams-Garcia’s 2014 CSK Author Award Acceptance
Good morning, family. I am honored to stand before you all: Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee Chair Kim Patton and the committee; most distinguished fellow honorees; and all of us joined through...
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A Profile of Kate DiCamillo
Kate and a nutty pal at the Berdoll Pecan Farm in Cedar Creek, Texas. Superheroes come in all shapes and sizes: Incandesto is a towering beam of light; Ulysses is a squirrel; and Kate DiCamillo, of...
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B: A Profile of Brian Floca
An editor’s dream — smart authors, smart artists. They save so much time. That is, they’re up to speed without undue heaving or the need for sand on the tracks (see Locomotive for more on the subject)....
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Caldecott 2014: The Year in Pictures
Welcome to Las Vegas! City of lights, city of sin; of excess, exploitation, and glitter. It may be an unlikely spot for a library conference, but its unofficial slogan makes it an apt one: what happens...
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Newbery 2014: The Year in Words
“You’ve got winner written all over you,” says the Whack-a-Duck man in Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee’s Bink & Gollie: Two For One, winner of the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in...
View ArticleThe Voice of Reason
Thank you for the opportunity to respond to The Horn Book’s July/August 2014 editorial (“Don’t Speak!”) regarding the ALSC Policy for Service on Award Committees that was revised during the 2014 ALA...
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