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Up, Up, Ever Up!: Yuko Shimizu’s 2025 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
Photo: Susannah Richards. Illustrators and writers spend much of our time working alone. Making a book is a long process. Mine usually take about a year from start to finish, and six months of that time is spent researching the subject by reading books, looking at photos, and watching video...
Up, Up, Ever Up!: Anita Yasuda’s 2025 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
Have you ever woken above clouds? Greeted by a rising fire that crests on a wave in a simmering sea of ice and mist and wonder? Or watched the light spread out from a peak, over the land, to the farthest dark edge like a hand? Junko Tabei did. And...
Imogen
The refrain “something was missing” drives Elizabeth Partridge’s narrative about her grandmother, photographer Imogen Cunningham, until Imogen discovers photography, specifically the ability to develop her own film — and then, “Nothing was missing.” The Caldecott criteria that first comes to mind for Imogen is Yuko Shimizu’s “appropriateness of style of illustration to the story, theme, or concept.”...
Review of Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham
Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Yuko Shimizu Primary, Intermediate Viking 40 pp. 8/25 9781984835185 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781984835208 $10.99 Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was born into a large, loving family in the Pacific Northwest at the tail end of the nineteenth century. As...
2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards at Cambridge Public Library
Photo: Cynthia K. Ritter. The 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards took place last Thursday, November 6, at the Cambridge (MA) Public Library — and what a time we had! It was only our second time back in person post-COVID-19 (last year was at the beautiful and historic Boston Public Library) and...
Presenting the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners
On Monday, June 23, 2025 at 12 pm EDT, Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz announced the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. If you want to relive the excitement, you can watch the archived video here: 2025 BOSTON GLOBE–HORN BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED Prestigious Program Honors...
Review of Up, Up, Ever Up!: Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains
Up, Up, Ever Up!: Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains by Anita Yasuda; illus. by Yuko Shimizu Primary Clarion/HarperCollins 48 pp. 9/24 9780063242418 $19.99 In this inspiring picture-book biography, readers meet renowned Japanese mountain climber, educator, and environmentalist Junko Tabei (1939–2016), the first woman to successfully summit Mount Everest....
Review of The Cat Man of Aleppo
The Cat Man of Aleppo by Irene Latham and Karim Shamsi-Basha; illus. by Yuko Shimizu Primary, Intermediate Putnam 32 pp. g 4/20 978-1-9848-1378-7 $17.99 In 2012, civil war comes to Aleppo, then the largest city in Syria. Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel is an ambulance driver who remains behind while many of his neighbors...
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