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Afikomen: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour 2024
Welcome to our stop on the Sydney Taylor Book Award blog tour! Author Tziporah Cohen and illustrator Yaara Eshet were kind enough to answer my questions about Afikomen, which received a Sydney Taylor Honor in the Picture Book category and was on the Horn Book’s 2023 Fanfare list. This inventive...
Additional ALA Awards 2024
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon) The Talk by Darrin Bell (Holt) Maame by Jessica George (St. Martin's) Bad Cree by Jessica Johns [nehiyaw/Sucker Creek First Nation] (Doubleday) I Will Greet the Sun Again by...
When the Angels Left the Old Country: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour 2023
Welcome to our stop on the Sydney Taylor Book Award blog tour! Author Sacha Lamb was kind enough to answer my questions about When the Angels Left the Old Country just hours after the book won the STBA’s Gold Medal in the Young Adult category...and some other major accolades. The...
Additional ALA Awards 2023
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin (Pamela Dorman/Penguin Random House) Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager/HarperCollins*) I'm Glad My Mom...
The Passover Guest: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour 2022
Welcome to our stop on the 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Award blog tour! Author Susan Kusel (my own former STBA committee chair) and illustrator Sean Rubin were kind enough to answer my questions about The Passover Guest (Porter/Holiday), this year’s Gold Medal winner in the Picture Book category. In this...
Additional ALA Awards 2022
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (Tor/Tom Doherty Associates/Macmillan) The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin (Harper Perennial/HarperCollins) The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec, ACE (Berkley/Penguin Random House) The Library of...
Happy Anniversary: All-of-a-Kind Family
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor, illustrated by Helen John, was published by Follett in 1951, the first in a series of five novels. Taylor became the namesake for an award administered by the Association of Jewish Libraries for books for young people that “authentically portray the Jewish experience.” Here, Schneider...
Review of From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family by June Cummins with Alexandra Dunietz Yale University Press 383 pp. g 6/21 978-0-300-24355-0 $35.00 This long-awaited — and much anticipated — biography is the first ever of Sydney Taylor (1904–1978), author of the beloved All-of-a-Kind Family books about five Jewish...
Dancing at the Pity Party: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour 2021
Welcome to our stop on the 2021 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour! Author Tyler Feder was kind enough to answer my questions about Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir (Dial), this year’s Gold Medal winner in the Young Adult category. Feder’s look back at her...
Additional ALA Awards 2021
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press/Gallery Books/Simon) The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor Books/Tom Doherty Associates/Macmillan) The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice - Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O'Brady (Scribner/Simon)...
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