My friend Michelle Markel has been featured on my blog before so for her new release, we decided to try something new. To many authors, new books feel like their children. Michelle’s latest creative offspring is Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist…
Category: Interviews
Welcome Nancy Steiner – On This Night
Nancy Steiner is a freelance writer and author based in Los Angeles. I first met Nancy at a local SCBWI conference and we have been friends ever since! Nancy’s work has appeared in Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Jewish Journal…
Sydney Taylor Book Awards – 2013
2013 Sydney Taylor Book Awards Announced by the Association of Jewish Libraries The Sydney Taylor Book Award honors new books for children and teens that exemplify the highest literary standards while portraying the Jewish experience. The award memorializes Sydney Taylor,…
Hanukkah Hop! Welcome Erica Silverman!
Hanukkah starts early this year – it’s time to think about holiday books to share with the children in your life. One of my favorites is Hanukkah Hop! by Erica Silverman, illustrated by Stephen D’Amico. Hanukkah Hop! celebrates the delight of Hanukkah through…
Lesley Simpson – A Song for My Sister
Lesley Simpson is the author of A Song for My Sister (Random House) a lovely picture book about simchat bat, the Jewish baby naming ritual. Lesley takes young readers on a humor-filled journey as older sister Mira adapts to her…
Monique Polak – What World is Left
What World is Left (Orca, 2008) by Monique Polak tells the story of Anneke and her family as they are forced from their comfortable home and taken to Theresienstadt concentration camp, the site of a Nazi propaganda film. In the camp,…
Hanging Off Jefferson’s Nose Blog Tour – Tina Nichols Coury Celebrates America!
I am honored to be today’s stop on the Hanging Off Jefferson’s Nose Blog Tour 2012 ! I first met Tina Nichols Coury nearly two decades ago in a writing class taught by Alexis O’Neill. One day Tina shared her…
Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour – Welcome Robert Sharenow – The Berlin Boxing Club
I am honored to introduce Rob Sharenow, winner of the 2012 gold medal in the Sydney Taylor Book Award’s Teen Readers Category for The Berlin Boxing Club published by HarperTeen. This historical novel reveals the history of Nazi Germany through…
The Book of Life Podcast
So honored to be interviewed by Heidi Estrin on The Book of Life. Listen here!
Interview with Diane Heiman, author of The Mitzvah Project
Diane is the co-author of three non-fiction books for tweens, most recently, The Mitzvah Project Book Making Mitzvah Part of Your Bar/Bat Mitzvah… and Your Life (Jewish Lights). Her writing partner is her best friend from college, Liz Suneby. The…