By: Roger Sutton,
on 3/17/2009
Okay, not really, but I just finished talking with Buzz Aldrin, who really has been over--and on--the Moon. How cool is that? I was interviewing him for the upcoming issue of Notes from the Horn Book, wherein we feature his and Wendell Minor's Look to the Stars.
Everybody has something that will get them talking, and for Mr. Aldrin it was SCUBA-diving.
By: Roger Sutton,
on 3/2/2009
The Horn Book has a snow day today but our latest issue is out and, partly, up. We've posted an intelligently bristling argument from Farah Mendlesohn what's wrong with contemporary YA SF as well as veteran Joanna Rudge Long's thoughts on what to look for in a "Three Little Pigs." The print Magazine also includes Susan Fletcher's moving account of her epistolary friendship with Elvand, an Iranian writer and translator and we solicited stories of similar friendships from a handful of other authors for children. Catherine Murdock weighs in on the absence of mothers in children's books--it's A Good Thing--and Elizabeth Wein looks back in time. In better bookstores, bathrooms, and libraries now (or soon).
By: Roger Sutton,
on 9/25/2008
Patrick Ness's The Knife of Letting Go has won the Guardian's children's fiction prize. The book was published this month in the U.S. by Candlewick and will be reviewed in the November issue of the Horn Book Magazine. It's an SF novel about a society where people can hear each other think. Like that dude on Heroes!
By: Roger Sutton,
on 8/13/2008
We've just emailed the latest issue of Notes from the Horn Book, which this month covers new books about school, nature study and space; some good recent chapter books, and five writers' (and an editor's) own summer reading choices. Sign up now!
And, especially for teachers, this issue provides a link to TeachingBooks.net that gives free access to Notes-related content (curricular connections, author videos, etc.) on their site. Lemme know how this works out for you.
About ten years ago, my husband, son, his new girlfriend (now wife),one of my authors--Kara Dalkey--and her then husband John who was writing a book with Aldrin all had dinner together.
Mostly we listened to Buzz talking. And individually we found ourselves thinking--whenever we worried maybe we should be part of the conversation, too, not just audience-- "He's been on the moon!"
We were absolutely awed.
Not a bad thing to be.
Jane
I liked when Ali G interviewed him and kept calling him Buzz Lightyear.