I have to admit, I don’t always read The Horn Book. But when I heard they were devoting an entire issue to nonfiction, well, I was all in. 

From cover to cover, the issue is bursting with articles by all the children’s nonfiction authors I love–Deborah Heiligman, Tanya Lee Stone, Elizabeth Partridge, Chris Barton, Kathleen Krull, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, Steve Jenkins, Canadace Flemming.

And that’s not all. There was a great article by Erica Zappy, editor of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Scientists in the Field series. Laurie Halse Anderson wrote a wonderful piece about her research for the historical fiction novel Forge. There were also some great overview articles.

If you’re interested in nonfiction for kids, you need to read this issue of The Horn Book.