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Shoshana Flax

Boston

Associate Editor at The Horn Book Magazine

@HornBook-er. MG/PB author. Rep: @AmyRStern, Sheldon Fogelman Agency. #SCBWI. 2025 Walter Award judge. She/her. Opinions mine.

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  • 2 weeks ago | hbook.com | Shoshana Flax

    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 and Marjorie Ingall. With apologies and matzah ball soup to Chappell Roan.

  • 1 month ago | hbook.com | Shoshana Flax

    Find more great Horn Book content at these links: Interviews with authors and illustrators Recommended books: reviews and themed booklists App and e-book reviews Movie reviews Event news and recaps Events calendar Purim begins tonight! For more on this Jewish holiday of disguises and deliciousness, see the Holidays--Purim tag in the Guide/Reviews Database.

  • 2 months ago | hbook.com | Shoshana Flax

    Find more great Horn Book content at these links: Interviews with authors and illustrators Recommended books: reviews and themed booklists App and e-book reviews Movie reviews Event news and recaps Events calendar Tomorrow is Tu Bishvat, the Jewish holiday (of many spellings) considered the New Year of the Trees. Looking for tree-related inspiration? Tomorrow is Tu Bishvat, the Jewish holiday (of many spellings) considered the New Year of the Trees.

  • 2 months ago | hbook.com | Shoshana Flax

    Find more great Horn Book content at these links: Interviews with authors and illustrators Recommended books: reviews and themed booklists App and e-book reviews Movie reviews Event news and recaps Events calendar Welcome to our stop on the Sydney Taylor Book Award blog tour! Author Lesléa Newman and illustrator Susan Gal were kind enough to answer our questions about Joyful Song: A Naming Story, which received a Sydney Taylor Honor in the Picture Book category and was on the Horn Book’s 2024...

  • Nov 21, 2024 | hbook.com | Shoshana Flax |Adrienne L. Pettinelli

    The Many Problems of Rochel-Leah by Jane Yolen; illus. by Felishia HenditirtoPrimary    Apples & Honey/Behrman    32 pp. 9/24    9781681156392    $19.95“The first problem Rochel-Leah had was that she was a girl.” This picture book relates a “true(ish) story” set in a shtetl in Russia in the 1830s and inspired by a cousin of Yolen’s. Rochel-Leah wants to learn to read, but the cheder, or Jewish school, is only for boys.

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8 Dec 24

I'm on the other place with the azure heavens. Same handle.

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4 Dec 24

Spotify Wrapped says September was my "Theatrical Parody Musicals" phase. Help me try to remember that kind of September. Parodies for Charities proceeds are currently going to .@RAINN.

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Introducing Parodies for Charities! $10 for a ridiculous piece of writing; all proceeds to organizations in need. https://t.co/lMoGSIRbfL

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27 Oct 24

Remember, remember the fifth of November. Forgetful? Then go make a note. See reason this season and plan that you'll squeeze in the most urgent errand and VOTE. Parodies for Charities proceeds are currently going to .@RockTheVote.

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Introducing Parodies for Charities! $10 for a ridiculous piece of writing; all proceeds to organizations in need. https://t.co/lMoGSIRbfL