Horn Book Magazine September/October 2026

Cover art by Zuzana Čupová from Scritch! Scratch!, written by Teri Sloat.

In this Issue:

• “Little Tipi on the Prairie”: Carole Lindstrom on expanding the narrative around Native Peoples.
• Dean Schneider visits The Rabbit hOle museum’s immersive exhibit on Ashley Bryan’s Beautiful Blackbird.
• “Daddy King: How Martin Luther King Jr. Found His Thunder”: A golden acrostic poem by Alice Faye Duncan.
• The Writer’s Page: Eugene Yelchin on crafting a memoir and unexpected personal realizations.
• Field Notes: writer and teacher Frieda Wishinsky wrote letters to classic children’s authors — and they wrote back.
• Horn BOO!: A roundup of Halloween books.