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G-O-T T-O G-O, It’s Almost Passover!
Passover begins Saturday night! For more on the holiday, see the Passover tag on hbook.com and the Holidays--Passover tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. And for a…slightly sillier look at Seders, matzah, and the afikomen, here’s a song commissioned for Parodies for Charities by friends of the Horn Book Sylvie Shaffer...
Afikomen: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour 2024
Welcome to our stop on the Sydney Taylor Book Award blog tour! Author Tziporah Cohen and illustrator Yaara Eshet were kind enough to answer my questions about Afikomen, which received a Sydney Taylor Honor in the Picture Book category and was on the Horn Book’s 2023 Fanfare list. This inventive...
Whatcha up to this weekend?
Whether you and your loved ones are observing Passover, Easter, or Ramadan, or just spending a spring weekend together, enjoy! We think every occasion is made better with books, so here are some booklists recommending titles to take along, whatever the festivities. And if you, like Shoshana*, are having a hard time...
The Passover Guest: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour 2022
Welcome to our stop on the 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Award blog tour! Author Susan Kusel (my own former STBA committee chair) and illustrator Sean Rubin were kind enough to answer my questions about The Passover Guest (Porter/Holiday), this year’s Gold Medal winner in the Picture Book category. In this...
A Note from Me (Apr 2, 2021)
Dear friends: Awww, Beverly Cleary. Tributes are everywhere (including the front page of the Times, featuring yours truly) and we’ve rounded up several from among the many that have appeared in the Horn Book over the years. And I have a new “I’m so old…”: “I’m so old I remember...
Passover 2021
Passover begins Saturday night at sundown. Last year Shoshana wrote eloquently about how "this night" was extra different for many, and this year may be similarly different or otherwise in transition. Two recent picture books, both by Friends of the Horn Book, could nicely supplement the Haggadah. The Passover Guest by Susan Kusel...
Review of The Passover Guest
The Passover Guest by Susan Kusel; illus. by Sean Rubin Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 1/21 978-0-8234-4562-2 $18.99 This reimagining of I. L. Peretz’s 1904 Yiddish story “Der Kunzen-Macher” (“The Magician”) follows Muriel, a young girl living in Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression. On the first night of Passover,...
This Night Is Different
I’ve been hearing a lot about virtual story times these days, and I have some family experience with them. Reading over Skype or Zoom or anything else may not be exactly the same as reading on the same couch and passing the book around to give everyone a better look,...
Recommended reading for Passover
Here's an updated list of Passover books to nibble on when the matzo runs dry. With the exception of board books, these titles were recommended by The Horn Book Magazine and Guide at the time of their publication; reviews are reprinted from the Guide/Reviews Database. Please visit the Association of Jewish...
On Hazel Rochman's "Beyond Oral History: What Makes a Good Holocaust Book?" (from 2006)
Dear White House Press Secretary:I don't hold out much hope that you think this way, but if I were you on this day after your epic what-I-hope-was-a-gaffe regarding Hilter, Assad, and chemical weapons, I'd be frantically trying to educate myself about what we mean when we refer to the Holocaust.Here's...
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