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Emily Schneider Emily Schneider writes about literature, feminism, and culture for Tablet, The Forward, The Horn Book, and other publications, and writes about children’s books on her blog. She has a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures. Website Reviews Articles Fiction Song of a Blackbird Maria van Lieshout Children’s The Bagel Who Wanted Everything Alan Silberberg Visual Arts Megillat Esther: The Graphic Tale JT Waldman Children’s The World Entire: A True Story of an Extraordinary World War II Rescue Elizabeth Brown Melissa Castrillón Nonfiction The Sky Was My Blanket: A Young Man’s Journey Across Wartime Europe Uri Shulevitz Children’s The Henna Helper Tami Lehman-Wilzig Yinon Ptahia Nonfiction Judy Blume: A Life Mark Oppenheimer Children’s Kayla and Kugels Super Sweet Rosh Hashanah Ann D. Koffsky Children’s Hallelujah: The Story of Leonard Cohen Alicia Jo Rabins Gene Pendon Children’s A Place Called Galveston Andrea Shapiro Valerya Milovanova Fiction Scattergood H.M. Bouwman Children’s Rembrandt’s Blessing Tami Lehman-Wilzig Anita Barghigiani Children’s Claudia Said Sí!: The Story of Mexico’s First Woman President Deborah Bodin Cohen Kerry Olitzky Carlos Vélez Aguilera Children’s The Peddler and the President Ann D. Koffsky Pedro Rodríguez Nonfiction Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) Deborah Heiligman Pagination Page 1 Next page ›› Essay The World is Round: Jewish Children’s Books Welcome the New Year Emily Schneider September 26, 2019 Interview “Moments Like That”: A Conversation with Author and Illustrator Jane Breskin Zalben Emily Schneider June 24, 2019 Essay Marilyn Sachs, Forgotten Pioneer in Children’s Literature At a time when children’s literature was filled with picture-perfect families, Marilyn Sachs painted a darker, richer reality. Emily Schneider June 3, 2019 Interview A Conversation with Children’s Author Debbie Levy Emily Schneider February 25, 2019 Interview On Golems and Empathy: An Interview with Jonathan Auxier Emily Schneider February 11, 2019 Essay I Re-Read American Girl’s Rebecca Rubin Books, and They Hold Up Emily Schneider December 3, 2018 Essay—From the Journal Louisa May Alcott and the Jews of ‘Little Women’ Revisiting Louisa May Alcott’s classic 150 years afters its release, and its minor (and mildly offensive) Jewish characters. Emily Schneider November 19, 2018 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 3
Children’s The World Entire: A True Story of an Extraordinary World War II Rescue Elizabeth Brown Melissa Castrillón
Children’s Claudia Said Sí!: The Story of Mexico’s First Woman President Deborah Bodin Cohen Kerry Olitzky Carlos Vélez Aguilera
Essay The World is Round: Jewish Children’s Books Welcome the New Year Emily Schneider September 26, 2019
Interview “Moments Like That”: A Conversation with Author and Illustrator Jane Breskin Zalben Emily Schneider June 24, 2019
Essay Marilyn Sachs, Forgotten Pioneer in Children’s Literature At a time when children’s literature was filled with picture-perfect families, Marilyn Sachs painted a darker, richer reality. Emily Schneider June 3, 2019
Interview On Golems and Empathy: An Interview with Jonathan Auxier Emily Schneider February 11, 2019
Essay I Re-Read American Girl’s Rebecca Rubin Books, and They Hold Up Emily Schneider December 3, 2018
Essay—From the Journal Louisa May Alcott and the Jews of ‘Little Women’ Revisiting Louisa May Alcott’s classic 150 years afters its release, and its minor (and mildly offensive) Jewish characters. Emily Schneider November 19, 2018
