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Joyful Song: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour 2025
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...
Review of Joyful Song: A Naming Story
Joyful Song: A Naming Story by Lesléa Newman; illus. by Susan GalPreschool, Primary Levine/Levine Querido 40 pp.5/24 9781646143702 $18.99It’s Zachary’s baby sister’s first Shabbat, and the whole family is on their way to the synagogue for her naming ceremony. As they bump into people throughout their diverse neighborhood, a sweet...
The Writer's Page: Yes, And...
In improv comedy there is a hard and fast rule: whatever your scene partner asks you to do, no matter how ridiculous or outrageous, you always answer, “Yes, and…” Saying no ends the scene and cuts off all possibilities. Saying yes continues the scene and provides infinite opportunities. It’s a...
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Review of Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico /Un cuento de Puerto Rico
Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico /Un cuento de Puerto Rico by Lesléa Newman; illus. by Elizabeth Erazo Baez; trans. into Spanish by Georgina LázaroPrimary Children’s/Lee & Low 40 pp. g4/22 978-0-89239-455-5 $19.95Newman wrote this book in the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane...
"How Does Jane Yolen Write a Book?"
Author and poet Lesléa Newman wrote the following appreciation (with apologies to the How Do Dinosaurs? series) in honor of her friend and colleague Jane Yolen's 365th book -- a remarkable achievement. And what better time than Women's History Month to celebrate it? For more from The Horn Book on...
Massachusetts Book Awards 2016
On Tuesday, December 6th, I was lucky to be the plus-one, with amazing school librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro, at the sixteenth annual Massachusetts Book Awards ceremony at the State House, in recognition of "significant works of fiction, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ArchiveImages\/HB\nonfiction, poetry, and children’s/young adult literature published by Commonwealth residents or about Massachusetts...
AJL 2016
A few days before Roger and Martha set off for ALA, I flew to Charleston for the annual conference of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL). As a member of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee (named for the author of the All-of-a-Kind Family series; which sibling are you?), I...
Heather and Her Critics
As an out lesbian author of six picture books, five of which depict families with gay or lesbian members, I have been called one of the most dangerous writers living in America today. In fact, in 1994, my book Heather Has Two Mommies was the second most challenged book in...
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