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Review of (S)Kin
(S)Kin by Ibi ZoboiHigh School Versify/HarperCollins 400 pp.2/25 9780062888877 $19.99e-book ed. 9780062888891 $10.99In this verse novel with a basis in Caribbean folklore, fifteen-year-old Marisol and her mother, Lourdes, have recently emigrated from the Caribbean to Brooklyn. The two are soucouyant, shapeshifting “monsters” who shed their skin during the new moon...
Profile of 2024 CSK Author Award winner Ibi Zoboi
At Ibi Zoboi's 2014 graduation from the Writing for Children Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts: husband Joseph, son Zuber, daughters Abadai and Bahati, and mother Monique. Photo courtesy of Ibi Zoboi. My whole life, my mother has been an avid writer. Between leading writing workshops for teenage girls...
2023: The Year in Words and Pictures
Some of the most indelible imagery in Big, this year’s Caldecott Medal–winning title by Vashti Harrison, is of breaking free of constraints, as a protagonist who feels trapped “make[s] more space for herself,” emerging into a stunning double gatefold. Big was a BIG deal this year, with additional accolades including...
2024 CSK Author Award Acceptance by Ibi Zoboi
I have been writing and telling stories my entire adult life. My first love was journalism — what I consider to be truth-telling. Then I fell in love with spoken word poetry — what I consider to be testifying. The need to tell the truth and to testify has always...
Reviews of the 2024 CSK Author Award Winners
Winner Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi High School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 384 pp. 5/23 9780062888846 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780062888860 $12.99 Sixteen-year-old Nigeria is expected to lead the youth of the Movement (which is “like a small African West Philly village in the big, white state of Pennsylvania”) and model what...
Review of Nigeria Jones
Nigeria Jones by Ibi ZoboiHigh School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 384 pp.5/23 9780062888846 $19.99e-book ed. 9780062888860 $12.99Sixteen-year-old Nigeria is expected to lead the youth of the Movement (which is “like a small African West Philly village in the big, white state of Pennsylvania”) and model what it means to be a...
Seeing Ourselves: Our Stories Could Fly: The Future of Books for Black Children
I own a well-read copy of Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales. It’s a classic in many households, as it should be. It’s not just the stories that I return to over and over again; it’s the magical illustrations by the dynamic duo Leo and Diane Dillon....
Review of Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi Intermediate, Middle School Dutton 128 pp. g 1/22 978-0-399-18738-4 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-399-18739-1 $9.99 A biography that’s as unique in form and content as the groundbreaking sci-fi/fantasy author herself. Zoboi (The People Remember, rev. 11/21) came to this...
Punching the Air: Ibi Zoboi's 2021 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Speech
Firstly, I always have to thank my co-author, Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam, for extending such warmth and grace throughout our process of drafting, revising, publishing, and promoting Punching the Air, a story inspired by Yusef’s experiences as a wrongfully incarcerated teen. We can never truly understand Yusef’s journey. However,...
Review of The People Remember
The People Remember by Ibi Zoboi; illus. by Loveis Wise Primary, Intermediate Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 64 pp. g 9/21 978-0-06-291564-1 $19.99 Through art and words, with the framework of the seven principles of Kwanzaa, Zoboi (American Street, rev. 3/17; Black Enough, rev. 1/19) and Wise beautifully “sew together a...
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