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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 Children’s More than Enough: Inspired by Maimonides’s Golden Ladder of Giving Richard Michelson; Joe Cepeda, illus. Fiction I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir Eugene Yelchin Children’s A Field Guide to Broken Promises Leah Stecher Nonfiction Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature Miriam Udel Children’s Golemcrafters Emi Watanabe Cohen Children’s A Teddy Bear for Emily – And President Roosevelt, Too Nancy Churnin; Bethany Stancliffe, illus. Children’s Days of Awe Eric A. Kimmel; Sarah Green, illus. Children’s Right Back At You Carolyn Mackler Children’s Lily’s Hong Kong Honey Cake Erica Lyons; Bonnie Pang, illus. Fiction The Rooster Princess and Other Tales: Jewish Stories Re-populated with Spunky Heroines,Wise Women, Brave Crones, and Powerful Prophetesses Debra Gordon Zaslow The Jewish Women’s Storytelling Collective Children’s Fighter in the Woods: The True Story of a Jewish Girl who Joined the Partisans in World War II Hardcover Joshua M. Greene Children’s The Secret Recipe Ilan Stavans; Taia Morley, illus. Children’s The Bletchley Riddle Ruta Sepetys Steve Sheinkin Children’s Amazing Annie: The Spectacular and Mostly True Adventures of Annie Kopchovsky Stephen Krensky; Adriana Predoi, illus. Children’s Sweet Babe! A Jewish Grandma Kvells Robin Rosenthal Pagination Page 1 Next page ›› 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 More than Enough: Inspired by Maimonides’s Golden Ladder of Giving Richard Michelson; Joe Cepeda, illus.
Children’s A Teddy Bear for Emily – And President Roosevelt, Too Nancy Churnin; Bethany Stancliffe, illus.
Fiction The Rooster Princess and Other Tales: Jewish Stories Re-populated with Spunky Heroines,Wise Women, Brave Crones, and Powerful Prophetesses Debra Gordon Zaslow The Jewish Women’s Storytelling Collective
Children’s Fighter in the Woods: The True Story of a Jewish Girl who Joined the Partisans in World War II Hardcover Joshua M. Greene
Children’s Amazing Annie: The Spectacular and Mostly True Adventures of Annie Kopchovsky Stephen Krensky; Adriana Predoi, illus.
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
