Roger Sutton

Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Fresh off winning the 2026 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction for A World Without Summer, about volcanoes, climate change, and Frankenstein, Nicholas Day — again — surprises us with a picture book foray into the eel, of all creatures, as exemplar of the limits on what we know. Illustrated by Corey R.

This interview originally appeared in the May/June 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Diverse Voices, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by For Gathering the Light, a Muscogee poet and Anishinaabe painter celebrate the circle of the day. Joy Harjo photo: Denise Toombs; Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley photo: Jake Kimble 2024. 1.

This interview originally appeared in the May/June 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Diverse Voices, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by In Such Great Heights, Siya finds her memories of her late mother, her school project on the Ramayana, and her participation in a mock trial competition coming together in enlightening ways. 1.