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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 Bartali’s Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy’s Secret Hero Megan Hoyt, Iacopo Bruno (Illustrator) Nonfiction A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp Jack Fairweather Fiction The Seventh Handmaiden Judith Pransky Fiction Gottika Helaine Becker, Vero Navarro (Illustrator) Nonfiction Sylvie Sylvie Kantorovitz Children’s Nathan’s Song Leda Schubert, Maya Ish-Shalom (Illustrator) Fiction Chunky Yehudi Mercado Children’s Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World Dean Robbins, Mike Dutton (Illustrator) Children’s The Singer and the Scientist Lisa Rose, Isabel Muñoz (Illustrator) Children’s Saving Lady Liberty: Joseph Pulitzer’s Fight for the Statue of Liberty Claudia Friddell, Stacy Innerst (Illustrator) Children’s The Donkey and the Garden Devora Busheri, Menahem Halberstadt (Illustrator) Children’s Let Liberty Rise!: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty Chana Stiefel, Chuck Groenink (Illustrator) Fiction The Girl From Over There: The Hopeful Story of a Young Jewish Immigrant Sharon Rechter, Karla Gerard (Illustrator) Nonfiction From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family June Cummins, Alexandra Dunietz Fiction The Poetry of Secrets Cambria Gordon Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 14 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 Bartali’s Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy’s Secret Hero Megan Hoyt, Iacopo Bruno (Illustrator)
Nonfiction A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp Jack Fairweather
Children’s Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World Dean Robbins, Mike Dutton (Illustrator)
Children’s Saving Lady Liberty: Joseph Pulitzer’s Fight for the Statue of Liberty Claudia Friddell, Stacy Innerst (Illustrator)
Children’s Let Liberty Rise!: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty Chana Stiefel, Chuck Groenink (Illustrator)
Fiction The Girl From Over There: The Hopeful Story of a Young Jewish Immigrant Sharon Rechter, Karla Gerard (Illustrator)
Nonfiction From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family June Cummins, Alexandra Dunietz
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
