The Horn Book Magazine

The Horn Book Magazine is an American magazine for children's and youth literature. The magazine was founded in Boston in 1924 published every two months and is aimed at children and youth librarians, booksellers and publishers, but also to writers and literary scholars. The title is English Horn Book Horn Book, an early reading help for children.

The origin of the magazine is in a suggestive purchase list ( German proposal list for book purchase) that issued in Boston Bertha Mahony Miller and Elinor Whitney Field from 1924. Miller and Field were owners of the Boston Bookshop for Boys and Girls, which was founded in 1916 as the first children's bookstore in the USA by the Women 's Educational and Industrial Union. The bookstore closed in 1936, but the magazine continued to exist. The Horn Book Magazine was acquired in 2009 by the publisher MediaSource, who also acquired the journals Library Journal and School Library Journal ( SLJ ) in the following year.

In each issue of the magazine reviews are comprised of new releases of children 's literature, to articles and essays on developments in the field. Once a year, the editors choose under the name Fanfare their selection of the best new releases of the year.