The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly)

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Sidura Ludwig shares her adult short story collection, You Are Not What We Expected, fr…

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Lesléa Newman shares her picture book Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tail from Ch…

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Leslie Kimmelman shares her picture book Worse and Worse on Noah's Ark from Apples & H…

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The first episode in this special series features Gila Green, author of No Entry, a no…

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This Book of Life "Family Meeting" will fill you in on lots of information about the show that you may have bee…

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No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon's Battle for Women's Rights in Japan by Jeff Gottesfeld, illustrated by S…

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The Sydney Taylor Book Award recognizes the best in Jewish children's and teen litera…

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This virtual panel on Yiddish-related kidlit includes Sue Macy, author of The Book Rescuer, Debbie Levy, …

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ANNOUNCING: The World Premiere of the audiobook version of Hanukkah with Noshy Boy & Friends by Ann…

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On The Book of Life, we talk a lot about Jewish kidlit. But where do you go to find Jewish children's books…

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The 100 Most Jewish Foods, a Highly Debatable List, started as a fun interactive feature on the website of Table…

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Honeycake Magazine is a new Jewish magazine for kids ages 2 to 6. Creator Anna Caplan guest posted on The Book of Life …

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We are in a golden age of picture book biographies, and one prolific biographer is Nancy Churnin. She's got…

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In May 2019 I posted an interview with Jonathan Auxier, the author of Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster.…

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At the 2019 Association of Jewish Libraries conference in Los Angeles, California, we recorded a Book of Life …

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Sadaf Siddique and Gauri Manglick are the co-creators of Kitaab World, a website that promotes South Asian ch…

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Young Aria is a voracious reader. In this interview, she shares a few of her favorite titles:

• All Kinds of Strong…

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Anne Dublin is a Toronto-based author and retired synagogue librarian. She is the Canadian Correspondent for The Book …

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Natalie Silverstein is the New York volunteer coordinator of Doing Good Together, an organization that e…

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Craig Taubman is a long-time star in the world of American Jewish rock and roll, and the founder of the Pico U…