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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 When the World Was Ours Liz Kessler Nonfiction The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain Eugene Yelchin Fiction Rescue Jennifer A. Nielsen Fiction Once More with Chutzpah Haley Neil Children’s Hold On to Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Lane Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, Emil Sher (Adaptor), Sonia Possentini (Illustrator) Children’s But Perhaps, Just Maybe… Tuvia Dikman Oro, Menahem Halberstadt (Illustrator), Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann (Translator) Children’s Dear Mr. Dickens Nancy Churnin, Bethany Stancliffe (Illustrator) Nonfiction The Light of Days Young Readers’ Edition: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos Judy Batalion Children’s The Chocolate King Michael Leventhal, Laura Catalan (Illustrator) Children’s A Boy Is Not a Ghost Edeet Ravel Children’s A Bear for Bimi Jane Breskin Zalben, Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator) Children’s I’ll Keep You Close Jeska Verstegen, Bill Nagelkerke (Translator) Fiction Upstaged Diana Harmon Asher Children’s In the Market of Zakrobat Ori Elon, Menahem Halberstadt (Illustrator), Shira Atik (Translator) Nonfiction The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival Thomas Geve Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 12 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 Hold On to Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Lane Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, Emil Sher (Adaptor), Sonia Possentini (Illustrator)
Children’s But Perhaps, Just Maybe… Tuvia Dikman Oro, Menahem Halberstadt (Illustrator), Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann (Translator)
Nonfiction The Light of Days Young Readers’ Edition: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos Judy Batalion
Children’s In the Market of Zakrobat Ori Elon, Menahem Halberstadt (Illustrator), Shira Atik (Translator)
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
