The Horn Book Magazine September/October 2017

This issue includes:

• “To Inform and Delight: The Elements of Story” by Melissa Sweet
  The 2017 Zena Sutherland Lecture.
• “Looking for Queer Girls on the Shelves” by E. M. Kokie
  Our young queer and questioning readers deserve more of and from the stories we are publishing about their lives.
• “The Incomparable Robin Smith (1959–2017)” by Martha V. Paravanno
• BGHB at 50: The Adventures of Sparrowboy by Carole Boston Weatherford
  Brian Pinkney's 1997 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner for Picture Book was exactly what one author and parent was looking for. The fourth column in an ongoing series.
• The Writer's Page: “On Home, Empathy, and Voice” by E. Lockhart
  How our physical and narrative homes shape our perspectives.
• Cadenza: “For Mrs. Gill, Who Read Us Outside Over There” by Steven Withrow
  
• Books in the Home: “What My First Grader Taught Me About Learning to Read” by Summer Clark
• From The (Ghoulish) Guide: Horn BOO!
  A selection of reviews of Halloween books from The Horn Book Guide.