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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 There Was a Young Rabbi: A Hanukkah Tale Suzanne Wolfe, Jeffrey Ebbeler (illus.) Fiction Letters from Cuba Ruth Behar Children’s A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night Allison Ofanansky, Rotem Teplow (illus.) Fiction The Children’s Block Otto Kraus Fiction Fing’s War Benny Lindelauf, John Nieuwenhuizen (trans.) Children’s Worse and Worse on Noah’s Ark Leslie Kimmelman, Vivian Mineker (illus.) Fiction They Went Left Monica Hesse Children’s My Sister Is Sleeping Devora Busheri, Michel Kichka, (illus.), Shira Atik (trans.) Children’s Sweet Tamales for Purim Barbara Bietz, John Kanzler (illus.) Children’s A Ceiling Made of Eggshells Gail Carson Levine Children’s No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights in Japan Jeff Gottesfeld, Shiella Witanto (illus.) Children’s A Boy Is Not a Bird Edeet Ravel, Pam Comeau (illus.) Children’s Miriam at the River Jane Yolen; Khoa Le, illus. Children’s Judah Touro Didn’t Want to Be Famous Audrey Ades, Vivien Mildenberger (illus.) Children’s Ruth Objects: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Doreen Rappaport, Eric Velasquez (illus.) Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 18 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 No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights in Japan Jeff Gottesfeld, Shiella Witanto (illus.)
Children’s Ruth Objects: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Doreen Rappaport, Eric Velasquez (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
