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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 Parrots, Pugs, and Pixie Dust: A Book About Fashion Designer Judith Leiber Deborah Blumenthal, Masha D’Yans (illus.) Children’s The Life of a Coat Kadya Molodowsky, Batia Kolton (illus.), Ilana Kurshan (trans.) Children’s A Persian Princess Barbara Diamond Goldin, Steliyana Doneva (illus.) Children’s Who Will Ask the Four Questions Naomi Ben-Gur, Carmel Ben-Ami (illus.), Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann (trans.) Fiction Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life and Work Victoria Ortiz Children’s The City of Light Theodore Bikel, Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, Noah Phillips (illus.) Children’s My Survival: A Girl on Schindler’s List Rina Finder, with Joshua M. Greene Children’s Don’t Tell the Nazis Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Children’s Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice Debbie Levy (auth.), Whitney Gardner (illus.) Children’s Red Menace Lois Ruby Children’s We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport Deborah Hopkinson Children’s A Fist for Joe Louis and Me Trinka Hikes Noble (auth.), Nicole Tadgell (illus.) Visual Arts Judith Kerr: The Illustrators Joanna Carey Children’s Goodnight Bubbala: A Joyful, Jewish, Not-So-Quiet Parody of Goodnight Moon Sheryl Haft (auth.), Jill Weber (illus.) Children’s Daniel and Ismail Juan Pablo Iglesias (auth.), Alex Peris (illus.), Ilan Stavans (trans.) Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 19 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 Parrots, Pugs, and Pixie Dust: A Book About Fashion Designer Judith Leiber Deborah Blumenthal, Masha D’Yans (illus.)
Children’s Who Will Ask the Four Questions Naomi Ben-Gur, Carmel Ben-Ami (illus.), Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann (trans.)
Children’s Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice Debbie Levy (auth.), Whitney Gardner (illus.)
Children’s A Fist for Joe Louis and Me Trinka Hikes Noble (auth.), Nicole Tadgell (illus.)
Children’s Goodnight Bubbala: A Joyful, Jewish, Not-So-Quiet Parody of Goodnight Moon Sheryl Haft (auth.), Jill Weber (illus.)
Children’s Daniel and Ismail Juan Pablo Iglesias (auth.), Alex Peris (illus.), Ilan Stavans (trans.)
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
