Besides being the oldest magazine of its kind in America, Horn Book remains one of the most well-known arbiters of excellence in children's publishing.
Shortly after, Mahony was employed as Assistant Secretary in Boston's Women's Educational and Industrial Union.
[3] Mahony enlisted the support of experts in children's literature to fill in her information gaps.
It does not seem possible that there can be any profession with greater satisfactions, a higher daily excitement or a more vital sense of the surging tides of life than that of a bookman in a bookshop.The Bookshop for Boys & Girls opened in the beginning of October, 1916.
The wrap-around balcony displayed children's books, while the ground floor contained adult literature.
The first issue, published in October 1924, was mainly a list of recommended new books, but the magazine grew to include more than just a booklist.
Mahony married William D. Miller in 1932 and resigned from The Bookshop in 1934 to concentrate solely on The Horn Book.
In 1937, the Women's Educational and Industrial Union sold The Bookshop for Boys & Girls, which ultimately killed it.
It will settle and take root wherever the soil is most favorable to it, and so while dispersed will not be lost.The Horn Book, Inc. was a publishing company Mahony created in her retirement.