Jun 13, 2021
June is Pride Month, so I'm pleased to bring you The New Queer
Conscience, a 2021 Sydney Taylor Notable Book in the Young Adult
category. It's a manifesto by young activist Adam Eli, that holds
up k'lal yisrael, or Jewish solidarity, as a model for the queer
community to emulate.
For queer kidlit with identifiably...
May 10, 2021
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May is Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian/Pacific American
Heritage Month. We celebrate both on The Book of Life by talking to
Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang, co-authors of This
Is Just a Test and Not Your All-American Girl, a pair
of middle grade novels set...
Apr 18, 2021
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🕮 Ambika Sambasivan is the publisher at Yali Books, which opens a window to South Asia –India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and the Maldives —and invites the rest of the world to learn more about the incredible diversity of this...
Mar 18, 2021
Linda Elovitz Marshall was excited to get her COVID-19 shot, and back in the day she was glad to be vaccinated for polio too. That gratitude led her to create the picture book biography The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine illustrated by Lisa Anchin, a 2020 Sydney Taylor Notable Book.
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Mar 7, 2021
My good friend Susan Kusel has been on the podcast before, to talk about The Sydney Taylor Shmooze, and to announce the Sydney Taylor Book Award winners in 2018 and 2019. She also appeared in Beyond the Holocaust and Holidays, a 2019 episode about the Highlights Foundation's writing symposium, and in the 2020...
