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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 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 Children’s Rising Sidura Ludwig; Sophia Vincent Guy, illus. Children’s Tree. Table. Book. Lois Lowry Fiction The Judgment of YoYo Gold Isaac Blum Nonfiction An American Girl Anthology: Finding Ourselves in the Pleasant Company Universe KC Hysmith Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler Children’s The Keeper of Stories Caroline Kusin Pritchard; Selina Alko, illus. Children’s Max in the Land of Lies: A Tale of World War II Adam Gidwitz Children’s Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library Katherine Paterson; Sally Deng, illus. Children’s Roadside Seder Anna Levine; Naama Lahav, illus. Children’s Workitu’s Passover Maayan Ben Hagai and Zahava Goshen; Eden Spivak, illus. Children’s Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama’s First Presidential Seder Richard Michelson; E. B. Lewis, illus. Children’s Ellis Island Passover Marissa Moss Children’s One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe Dara Horn Theo Ellsworth Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 2 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 Amazing Annie: The Spectacular and Mostly True Adventures of Annie Kopchovsky Stephen Krensky; Adriana Predoi, illus.
Nonfiction An American Girl Anthology: Finding Ourselves in the Pleasant Company Universe KC Hysmith Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
Children’s Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library Katherine Paterson; Sally Deng, illus.
Children’s Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama’s First Presidential Seder Richard Michelson; E. B. Lewis, 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
