THE 2011 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARDS
ANNOUNCED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES

The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Younger Readers:
Gathering Sparks by Howard Schwartz with illustrations by Kristina Swarner (Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)

The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Older Readers:
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch (Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams)

The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Teen Readers:
The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt (Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books)

Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winners for Younger Readers:
Modeh Ani: A Good Morning Book by Sarah Gershman with illustrations by Kristina Swarner (EKS Publishing)
Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty by Linda Glaser with illustrations by Claire A. Nivola (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children)
Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale by Barbara Diamond Goldin with illustrations by Jaime Zollars (Marshall Cavendish Children)

Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winners for Older Readers:
Resistance by Carla Jablonski with illustrations by Leland Purvis (First Second, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
One Is Not a Lonely Number by Evelyn Krieger (YM Books)
Black Radishes by Susan Lynn Meyer (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books)

Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winners for Teen Readers:
Hush by Eishes Chayil (Walker & Company, a division of Bloomsbury Publishing)
Once by Morris Gleitzman (Henry Holt and Company)
Life, After by Sarah Darer Littman (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.)

Notable Books for Younger Readers:
Engineer Ari and the Sukkah Express by Deborah Bodin Cohen with illustrations by Shahar Kober (Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner)
Feivel’s Flying Horses by Heidi Smith Hyde with illustrations by Johanna van der Sterre (Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner)
Miriam in the Desert by Jacqueline Jules with illustrations by Natascia Ugliano (Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner)
The Little Red Hen and the Passover Matzah by Leslie Kimmelman with illustrations by Paul Meisel (Holiday House)
Say Hello, Lily by Deborah Lakritz with illustrations by Martha Aviles (Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner)
Beautiful Yetta, The Yiddish Chicken by Daniel Pinkwater with illustrations by Jill Pinkwater (Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan)
A Tale of Two Seders by Mindy Avra Portnoy with illustrations by Valeria Cis (Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner)
Jackie’s Gift by Sharon Robinson with illustrations by E.B. Lewis (The Viking Press, an imprint of Penguin)
Zishe the Strong Man by Robert Rubenstein with illustrations by Woody Miller (Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner)
Sara Finds a Mitzva by Rebeka Simhaee with illustrations by Michael Weber (Hachai Publishing)
Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to be Kosher by Laurel Snyder with illustrations by David Goldin (Tricycle Press, an imprint of The Crown Trade Group/Random House)
The Rooster Prince of Breslov by Ann Stampler with illustrations by Eugene Yelchin (Clarion, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Dear Tree by Doba Rivka Weber with illustrations by Phyllis Saroff (Hachai Publishing)

Notable Books for Older Readers:
Is It Night or Day? by Fern Schumer Chapman (Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan)
Kings and Carpenters: One Hundred Bible Land Jobs You Might Have Praised or Panned by Laurie Coulter with illustrations by Mary Newbigging (Annick Press)
Hot Pursuit: Murder in Mississippi by Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon with illustrations by Craig Orback (Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner)
The Orphan Rescue by Anne Dublin with illustrations by Qin Leng (Second Story Press)
The Year of Goodbyes by Debbie Levy (Hyperion Books, an imprint of Disney Book Group)
Sharing Our Homeland: Palestinian and Jewish Children at Summer Peace Camp by Trisha Marx
with photographs by Cindy Karp (Lee & Low Books)
Mitzvah the Mutt by Sylvia Rouss with illustrations by Martha Rast (Yaldah Publishing)

Notable Books for Teen Readers:
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin
(Carolrhoda Books, an imprint of Lerner)
Annexed by Sharon Dogar (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children)
Inconvenient by Margie Gelbwasser (Flux, an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.)
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon (Hill and Wang)
Queen of Secrets by Jenny Meyerhoff (Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan)
Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania by Haya Leah Molnar (Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan)
Cry of the Giraffe by Judie Oron (Annick Press)

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