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From M/J #HBMag #25YearsOfSibert "#HBWhatWeveLearned: Capturing the Bee's Essence" by 2021 #SibertAward winner Eric Rohmann: "There is an alchemy to painting: you come to a moment in the making when the subject becomes less influential, and the painting asserts itself." www.hbook.com/story/what-w...
Barbara Krasner revisits Eric A. Kimmel's #HBMag article "Confronting the Ovens": "I have developed a framework, using Kimmel’s foundational [typology for Holocaust books for children] as inspiration + reframed for the 21st century." www.hbook.com/story/revisi... @jewishlibraries.bsky.social #JAHM
⭐ #PictureBook #HBReviewoftheWeek WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN by @gregpizzoli.bsky.social (Knopf/ @randomhousekids.bsky.social ): "Comforting + steady in rhythm, the bk offers a reassuring way to ease into night while celebrating the small rituals shared among living beings" www.hbook.com/story/review...
#Fiction #HBReviewoftheWeek SASHIMI by @dansantat.bsky.social (Roaring Brook/ @mackidsbooks.bsky.social ): "Broad humor and slapstick antics leading up to the annual Barnacle Bay Beast Festival are grounded by Sashimi’s desire to find someone who can understand him" www.hbook.com/story/review...
From May/June #HBMag Special Issue: #25YearsOfSibert "#HBWhatWeveLearned: Moments I Hold Close" by 2021 #SibertAward winner Candace Fleming: "Art and words had reconnected them with a world where the next good thing IS possible." www.hbook.com/story/what-w...
On #MauriceSendakDay 2026 read more about the late author/illustrator: www.hbook.com/search?query... #kidlit
⭐ #Nonfiction #HBReviewoftheWeek PIECE BY PIECE: HOW STEPHEN SONDHEIM MADE MUSICAL PUZZLES COME ALIVE by Erin Frankel; illus. by Stacy Innerst (Calkins/Astra): "A focused introduction to Sondheim for budding young creatives." www.hbook.com/story/review...
From M/J #HBMag #25YearsOfSibert Issue "#HBWhatWeveLearned: What We Learned from Ben Shahn" by 2022 #SibertAward winners @cylev.bsky.social + Evan Turk: "His work was an amplifier for his most cherished beliefs, and that is something I think all artists can aspire to." www.hbook.com/story/what-w...
Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: www.hbook.com/section/book...
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From the May/June 2026 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: The Sibert Award at 25.
Barbara Krasner has developed a framework using Eric A. Kimmel’s foundational typology for Holocaust books for children as inspiration and reframed it for the twenty-first century.
