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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 Uprising Jennifer A. Nielsen Children’s Rachel Friedman Breaks the Rules Sarah Kapit; Genevieve Kote, illus. Children’s Sharing Shalom Danielle Sharkan; Selina Alko, illus. Children’s Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA Tanya Lee Stone; Gretchen Ellen Powers, illus. Children’s A Party for Florine: Florine Stettheimer and Me Yevgenia Nayberg Children’s An Etrog from Across the Sea Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky; Stacey Dressen McQueen, illus. Children’s Violin of Hope Ella Schwartz; Juliana Oakley, illus. Nonfiction Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance Ari Richter Nonfiction The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us Rachelle Bergstein Children’s The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout; Sammy Savos, illus. Fiction Don’t Want to Be Your Monster Deke Moulton Children’s This Is My Shabbat Chris Barash; Aviel Basil, illus. Children’s A Boy from Baghdad Miriam Halahmy Children’s Five Stories Ellen Weinstein Children’s The Apple Argument Jane Yolen; Anita Barghigiani, illus. Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 4 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 Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA Tanya Lee Stone; Gretchen Ellen Powers, illus.
Children’s An Etrog from Across the Sea Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky; Stacey Dressen McQueen, illus.
Nonfiction Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance Ari Richter
Children’s The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout; Sammy Savos, 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