Features - The Horn Book

January/February 2011
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Volume LXXXVII Number 1
Features
10 Horn Book Fanfare
Our choices for the best books of 2010.
18 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Gallery 2010
Celebrating the year’s winners and honor books.
Elizabeth Partridge 19 Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary
Laurel Croza 25 I Know Here
Matt James 29 I Know Here
Rebecca Stead 35 When You Reach Me
Leonard S. Marcus 40 An Interview with Sheldon Fogelman
The trailblazing agent talks past (his start),
present (the changing agent-author relationship),
and future (electronic publishing).
Barbara Bader 60 Virginia Haviland: Children’s Librarian, U.S.A.
First in a three-part series paying homage to the
second generation of pioneering children’s librarians.
Columns
Editorial
Roger Sutton
7 Library Lineage
Tracing the profession’s family tree.
Special Agents
Daniel Pinkwater
Stephanie Greene
Lane Smith
Elizabeth Partridge
Jacqueline Woodson
47 54 67 118 126 Why I love my agent.
Jennifer Laughran
Nancy Gallt
Steven Malk
Ken Wright
Charlotte Sheedy
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Columns(continued)
Foreign Correspondence
BrianAlderson 49 WilliamMayne
Laying claim to the greatness
of the late writer’s work.
DeirdreF.Baker 52 Sidebar:HearingfromWilliam
Borderlands
KathrynL.Nolfi 55 YAFatphobia
A plea for fat acceptance in literature for teens.
What Makes a Good…?
DeanSchneider 68 WhatMakesaGoodSportsNovel?
Sight Reading
—The Horn Book
LeonardS.Marcus 119 PictureBookParade
Some favorite picture books of 2010.
Guide Supplement
13
124 GoodSportsBooks
A selection of reviews from
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eHornBookGuide.
Cadenza
LaneSmith 132 ABirthdayCardforStevenMalk
More agent love.
—Kirkus Reviews
Reviews
13
75 BookReviews
Departments
—Booklist
4 LetterstotheEditor
5 January/FebruaryStarredBooks
127 Impromptu
130 IndextoAdvertisers
131 IndextoBooksReviewed
Cover © 2011 by Matt James.
Page 1 art from Pocketful of Posies.
Illustration © 2010 by Salley Mavor.
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