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Anne Wynter and Micha Archer Talk with Roger
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 Named a 2026 Boston Globe–Horn Book honoree for Picture Book last month, While We’re Here celebrates the art of the pivot: when things don’t go your way, find a different way to go.
Publishers' Preview: Fall 2026: Five Questions for Benjamin Alire Sáenz
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2026, 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 When the World Was Happy explores what happens in the lives of four teens after a school shooting leaves one of them disabled and all of them permanently changed.
Publishers' Preview: Fall 2026: Five Questions for Erin Bow
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2026, 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 Butter (a cat) and Owl (a…raven) are Witchward Bound (illustrated by Kelly Murphy) in pursuit of their missing mistress. 1. Who would you take on a Heroic Quest? And how would you travel?
Publishers' Preview: Fall 2026: Five Questions for Raj Haldar
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2026, 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 What Rhymes with Pterodactyl?: The Worst Rhyming Book Ever (illustrated by Emi Ordás) isn’t your usual rhyming book; its musician author takes great glee in bending the rules. 1.
Publishers' Preview: Fall 2026: Five Questions for Katherine Rundell
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2026, 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.
Publishers' Preview: Fall 2026: Five Questions for Kevin Henkes
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2026, 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 Little sister Poppy stars in the fifth book in Kevin Henkes’s series about the Miller family, and she has certainly come into her own. 1.
Tami Charles and Nikkolas Smith Talk with Roger
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 For That Beautiful Mind, Tami Charles worked with her son Christopher (himself the inspiration for Tami’s picture book All Because You Matter) and illustrator Nikkolas Smith to convey how one neurodivergent kid makes sense of the world. Roger Sutton: Tami, this book is based upon your son’s experience.
Scott Reintgen Talks with Roger
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 Third in Scott Reintgen's sci-fi Dragonships series, The Void Dragons finds the stakes for young teen protagonist Lunar and companions not just higher but interplanetary, bringing in the entire family of the Sun plus all its members’ attendant dragons. Below, Scott and I discuss what “writing big” means.
Kyle Lukoff Talks with Roger
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 The Vicious Cycle isn’t, himself, vicious — he’s just a unicycle that keeps going around in circles, again and again, over the same ground. Can a curious onlooker named Emily help? I talk below with Newbery Honor–author (for Too Bright to See) Kyle Lukoff about how a picture book gets moving. Roger Sutton: So let's talk about your book.
Misty Copeland Talks with Roger
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 For Firebird Waltz, prima ballerina Misty Copeland took inspiration from her signature role to start off a new series, Star Fire Academy, about young artists learning their particular crafts at a very special — magical, even — school in New York City. Roger Sutton: So, dancing wasn’t enough?
Publishers' Preview: New & Noteworthy: Five Questions for Sina Grace
This interview originally appeared in the July/August 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New & Noteworthy, 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 the graphic novel Game On, Sasan juggles family obligations, peer pressure, and his beloved video games to make it through seventh grade. 1.
Kate O'Shaughnessy Talks with Roger
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 In the cozy domestic fantasy Brittle Magic, everyone in Shiloh’s family has a modest magical talent that helps make the world a better place. Everyone, that is, but Shiloh, whose own gift remains unknown. What could it be? Newbery Honor (for The Wrong Way Home) author Kate O’Shaughnessy takes some chances with this first venture into more-than realism.
Publishers' Preview: New & Noteworthy: Five Questions for Melissa Sweet
This interview originally appeared in the July/August 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New & Noteworthy, 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 The Duck Can’t Sleep and neither, apparently, could E. B.
Bao Phi and Thi Bui Talk with Roger
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 In Ride / Ðạp Xe, their first book together since the Boston Globe–Horn Book and Caldecott honor-winning A Different Pond, Bao Phi and Thi Bui tell a story of learning to ride a bike. Two kids, two parents, two places, two languages — parallels are everything here. Roger Sutton: Thi, when did you learn to ride a bike? Thi Bui: I was twelve.
Publishers' Preview: New & Noteworthy: Five Questions for Molly Idle and Juana Martinez-Neal
This interview originally appeared in the July/August 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New & Noteworthy, 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 Two artists collaborate on Off the Wall: Making Stuff Together, a story about several children who themselves collaborate to make art. 1.
Publishers' Preview: New & Noteworthy: Five Questions for Bao Phi and Thi Bui
This interview originally appeared in the July/August 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New & Noteworthy, 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 Ride / Đap Xe, two children learn to ride a bike in distinctly different settings. What is their connection? 1. Bao, who taught you to ride a bike?
Publishers' Preview: New & Noteworthy: Five Questions for Tony DiTerlizzi
This interview originally appeared in the July/August 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New & Noteworthy, 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 Even the nicest among us have something like The Wump in our psyches, but what happens when that dark and vengeful shadow takes on a life of its own? 1.
Publishers' Preview: New & Noteworthy: Five Questions for Darianne Schramm
This interview originally appeared in the July/August 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New & Noteworthy, 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 Bequeathed with the dubious talent from her grandmother, Sydney knows whenever someone in her proximity is seventy-two hours from death. So what happens when it’s 72 Hours of You? 1.
Nic Stone Talks with Roger
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 For her new middle-grade novel Dasia (Forever), Nic Stone leans hard into the three dramatic unities: one plot, one place, one day. But even as we stay with one girl in her hospital room, we see a whole world come to life. Roger Sutton: Did you know from the start how circumscribed the world of the book was going to be? Nic Stone: You know, I did.
Andrea Beatriz Arango Talks with Roger
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 In No Place on Earth, Gustavo’s parents are “taking a break,” and his mother has decided to move from their home in Puerto Rico for a job in Yellowstone Park. Guess who she’s taking with her? This is the first prose novel by Andrea Beatriz Arango, who received a Newbery Honor in 2023 for Iveliz Explains It All. Roger Sutton: So, were you a Gustavo?
Nicholas Day Talks with Roger
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.
Publishers' Previews: Diverse Voices: Five Questions for Joy Harjo and Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley
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.
Publishers' Preview: Diverse Voices: Five Questions for Rajani LaRocca
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.
Daniel Nayeri Talks with Roger
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 Emblazoned on the cover painting of a door is the title, This Is a Door, just a hint of the play between language, image, and typography in 2026 Newbery Honor recipient (for The Teacher of Nomad Land) Daniel Nayeri’s new novel.
Publishers' Preview: Spring 2026: Five Questions for Jan M. Flynn
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2026, 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 Rain seems to be condemned to a life of working underground in the Tubes, until an encounter with a magnificent wild beast leads to a very different destiny as a Griffin Speaker.
Publishers' Preview: Spring 2026: Five Questions for Byron Graves
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2026, 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 Medicine Wheels, Byron Graves shares a summer full of family drama, new romance, and skateboarding as experienced by one Ojibwe teen. 1. How did you learn to skateboard?
Publishers' Preview: Spring 2026: Five Questions for Lauren Wolk
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2026, 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.
Publishers' Preview: Spring 2026: Five Questions for Christian Robinson
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2026, 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 Dad, author-illustrator Christian Robinson counts the ways fathers succeed (and sometimes fail) in demonstrating their love for their children. Photo (c) Christian Robinson. 1.
Publishers' Preview: Spring 2026: Five Questions for Sharon McMahon
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2026, 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 We Are Mighty: 12 Ordinary Americans Who Did the Next Needed Thing (illustrated by Susanna Chapman), Sharon McMahon profiles a dozen Americans who made a difference. 1.
Ari Tison Talks with Roger
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 Self-described below as “one of four” current Bribri Americans, Ari Tison explores her family’s Indigenous Costa Rican heritage in Together We See, a mystery story that takes bicultural teen Ulá from Minnesota to the Bribri reservation after her father’s suspicious death.
Matthew Burgess and Matthew Forsythe Talk with Roger
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 Still sometimes in awe of modern telecommunication, I Zoomed with author Matthew Burgess (whose Fireworks won this year’s Caldecott Medal for illustrator Cátia Chien) at his home in Berlin and illustrator Matthew Forsythe at a cafe in Montreal about their new picture book If the Moon, where dreams fly. Roger Sutton: Did you work on this book together?
Randy Ribay and Zeke Peña Talk with Roger
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 Two Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners (Randy for Everything We Never Had; Zeke for Photographic by Isabel Quintero) and fathers of young children bring their talents together for Hold, in which a dad and his young child learn to experience the world in alignment — all while trying to get out the door.
E. B. Goodale Talks with Roger
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 Robin and the Stick is the first in a projected series of three small-scale picture books by E. B. Goodale about a young child finding and establishing his-her-their (you choose) place in the world outside the home. Roger Sutton: Did you start out wanting to be an illustrator? E. B. Goodale: Not at first.
Chrystal D. Giles Talks with Roger
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 With Listen to the Girls, Chrystal D. Giles gives us one singular girl, Calla, who finds and creates community when she learns that a beloved teacher has been accused of sexually harassing former students. Roger Sutton: I’m thinking we’ve got something of the same thematic structure here as when we talked about your novel Not an Easy Win.
Katie Yamasaki Talks with Roger
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 Norton Young Readers Ripples in a river are just the surface of Katie Yamasaki’s picture book, which gently leads readers to consider connections between themselves and others, and what can be done to nourish ourselves, our communities, and our planet. Roger Sutton: Reading Ripples was such a beautiful respite from this horrible winter weather.
Jashar Awan Talks with Roger
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 I talked with author-illustrator Jashar Awan about his new picture book Loops just days after ALA announced he was a Caldecott Honor recipient for his last picture book Every Monday Mabel. Both books star young heroes taking destiny into their own hands — in the case of Loops, you can take that literally.
Chana Stiefel and Susan Gal Talk with Roger
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 Recently I had to have an MRI after a fall in the snow. After the exam was complete and the tech came back into the room, I asked her why I didn’t need to remove my wedding ring for the test. She said gold and silver are non-magnetic metals, and then from her pocket pulled out a key on one of those rubber coils.
Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris Talk with Roger
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 Partners in crime since childhood, now grown-up friends writer Mac Barnett and illustrator Shawn Harris collaborate on The Future Book, in which everything about tomorrow looks the same but, somewhere along the line, has acquired a new vocabulary.
Tracy Wolff Talks with Roger
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 The popular YA-adult, fantasy-romantasy author Tracy Wolff ventures into middle-grade world-building in The Aftermyth. Penelope is looking forward to enrolling in Anaximander’s Academy, which, even on her first day, is “everything — and nothing — like I thought it’d be.” Roger Sutton: So, Tracy, why the move into middle grade?
Publishers' Preview: New Year, New Books: Five Questions for Meera Subramanian and Danica Novgorodoff
This interview originally appeared in the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New Year, New Books, 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 A journalist and a graphic novelist find common cause in A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis.
Publishers' Preview: New Year, New Books: Five Questions for Jen Calonita
This interview originally appeared in the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New Year, New Books, 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.
Publishers' Preview: New Year, New Books: Five Questions for Ashley Belote
This interview originally appeared in the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New Year, New Books, 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.
Publishers' Previews: New Year, New Books: Five Questions for Corey R. Tabor
This interview originally appeared in the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New Year, New Books, 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 Whether competing in a Sled Race, or, as in their second volume, playing Hide-and-Seek, best pals Wally Mammoth and Wolf find friendship winning. 1.
Adib Khorram Talks with Roger
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 When ninth-grader Dayton, on a dare, shouts out a slur at a visiting poet, another boy, Farshid, wonders what that word — One Word, Six Letters — means for himself. Below, I talk with author Adib Khorram (who received a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Award for his first novel, Darius the Great Is Not Okay) about what that word means to him.
Publishers' Preview: Picture Books and Graphic Novels: Five Questions for Eric Velasquez
This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books and Graphic Novels, 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 When The Polar Bear and the Ballerina meet in Manhattan, a night of magic is in store for them both. 1. Polar bears or ballerinas — which are harder to paint?
Publishers' Preview: Picture Books and Graphic Novels: Five Questions for Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison
This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books and Graphic Novels, 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 A poet and a painter take us to a Family Feast! Frank Morrison photo: Lucas Garzoli. 1. Carole, what do people count on from you for the table?
Publishers' Preview: Picture Books and Graphic Novels: Five Questions for Norm Feuti
This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books and Graphic Novels, 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 Ethan and his mother are barely making ends meet in this graphic novel, and it seems like middle school is going to present challenges both social and economic.
Jason Reynolds in Conversation with The Horn Book
In Conversation with The Horn Book is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Horn Book Herald. This interview originally appeared in the October 2025 Horn Book Herald. To receive the Herald, sign up here. Sponsored by Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz: Grownups/authority figures as kids can be mind-blowing to young readers. Did you always know you would want to revisit Coach's story from childhood?
Tae Keller Talks with Roger
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 In Newbery Medalist Tae Keller's When Tomorrow Burns, middle schoolers Nomi, Arthur, and Vi — once inseparable childhood friends — need to come back together to face an ecological threat. Roger Sutton: You have written a picture book, but your zone is really middle grade, middle school. What did you read in middle school?
Publishers' Preview: Fall 2025: Five Questions for Nicholas Day
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2025, 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 It was A World Without Summer (illustrated by Yas Imamura) after Indonesia’s Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, bringing us climate change, hunger, and…Frankenstein. 1.
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