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National Jewish Book Awards
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Children’s Picture Book
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| 2025 | Tracy and Larry Brown Family Award |
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| 2024 | Tracy and Larry Brown Family Award |
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| 2023 | Tracy and Larry Brown Family Award |
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| 2022 | Tracy and Larry Brown Family Award |
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| 2001 | Louis Posner Memorial Award | Sylvia Rouss; Holly Harmon, illus.The Littlest Pair
Pitspopany Press
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| 2000 | Louis Posner Memorial Award | Laura Krauss Melmed; David Slonim, illus.Moishe's Miracle
HarperCollins
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| 1999 | Louis Posner Memorial Award | Simms TabackJoseph Had a Little Overcoat
Viking/ Penguin Putnam, Inc.
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| 1998 | Louis Posner Memorial Award | Francine Prose; Mark Podwal, illus.You Never Know
Greenwillow
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| 1997 | Louis Posner Memorial Award | Kathryn Lasky; Kevin Hawkes, illus.Marven of the Great North Woods
Harcourt Brace
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| 1994 | Louis Posner Memorial Award | Sheldon Oberman; Ted Lewin, illus.The Always Prayer Shawl
Boyd Mills Press
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| 1993 | Marcia and Louis Posner Award | Michael J. Rosen; Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, illus.Elijah's Angel
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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| 1992 | Marcia and Louis Posner Award | Michelle EdwardsChicken Man
HarperCollins
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| 1991 | Marcia and Louis Posner Award | RoniSchotter;Marylin Hafner, illus.Hannukah!
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
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| 1990 | Marcia and Louis Posner Award | Esther Silverstein Blanc; Tennessee Dixon, illus.Berchik
Volcano Press
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| 1989 | Marcia and Louis Posner Award | Barbara Diamond Goldin; Seymour Chwast, illus.Just Enough is Plenty: A Hannukah Tale
Viking Kestrel
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| 1988 | Miriam Chaikin; Charles Mikolaycak, illus.Exodus, Adapted from the Bible
Holiday House
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| 1987 | Myra C. Livingston; Lloyd Bloom, illus.Poems for Jewish Holidays
Holiday House
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| 1986 | Florence B. Freedman; Andrew Parker, illus.Brothers
Harper & Row
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| 1985 | Amy SchwartzMrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks
Jewish Publication Society
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| 1983 | Barbara Cohen; Michael J. Deraney, illus.Yussel's Prayer: A Yom Kippur Story
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
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