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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 Run and Hide: How Jewish Youth Escaped the Holocaust Don Brown Children’s Everybody’s Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah Linda Leopold Strauss; Tim Smart, illus. Children’s Matzah Man to the Rescue! Eric A. Kimmel; Charlie Fowkes, illus. Children’s Afikoman, Where’d You Go?: A Passover Hide-and-Seek Adventure Rebecca Gardyn Levington; Noa Kelner, illus. Nonfiction The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories Matt Reingold Fiction Artifice Sharon Cameron Children’s The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate Janice Cohn; Bill Farnsworth, illus. Children’s A Beautiful World Yael Gover; Paul Kor, illus.; Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann, trans. Fiction Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II (Operation Kinderspion) Adam Gidwitz Fiction Shira and Esther’s Double Dream Debut Anna E. Jordan Children’s Just One More Thing … and Then Bedtime Menahem Halberstadt; Romy Ronen, trans. Children’s Across So Many Seas Ruth Behar Fiction The Pomegranate Gate Ariel Kaplan Nonfiction Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe Steve Sheinkin Fiction Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews during World War II: A Graphic Novel Ralph Shayne; Tatiana Goldberg, illus. Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 6 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 Everybody’s Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah Linda Leopold Strauss; Tim Smart, illus.
Children’s Afikoman, Where’d You Go?: A Passover Hide-and-Seek Adventure Rebecca Gardyn Levington; Noa Kelner, illus.
Nonfiction The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories Matt Reingold
Nonfiction Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe Steve Sheinkin
Fiction Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews during World War II: A Graphic Novel Ralph Shayne; Tatiana Goldberg, 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
