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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 A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion Mara Rockliff; Juana Martinez-Neal, illus. Children’s Duct Tape Purim Jill Collela Bloomfield Children’s On the Move: Home Is Where You Find It Michael Rosen; Quentin Blake, illus. Children’s Where You’ve Got to Be Caroline Gertler Children’s Nuri and the Whale Ronit Chacham; Moran Yogev, illus. Children’s Chunky Goes to Camp Yehudi Mercado Jewish Text Salt & Honey: Jewish Teens on Feminism, Creativity, and Tradition Elizabeth Mandel, Emmanuelle Sippy, Maya Savin Miller, and Michele Lent Hirsch, eds.; Michelle Shapiro Abraham, contrib. Children’s The Boston Chocolate Party Tami Lehman-Wilzig Deborah R. Prinz Fiction This Rebel Heart Katherine Locke Fiction The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen Isaac Blum Children’s What’s in Tuli’s Box? Ann D. Koffsky Fiction My Name Is Hamburger Jacqueline Jules Nonfiction Saved by Schindler: The Life of Celina Karp Biniaz William B. Friedricks Children’s Deborah’s Tree Jane Yolen; Cosei Kawa, illus. Fiction Faceless Kathryn Lasky Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 9 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 A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion Mara Rockliff; Juana Martinez-Neal, illus.
Jewish Text Salt & Honey: Jewish Teens on Feminism, Creativity, and Tradition Elizabeth Mandel, Emmanuelle Sippy, Maya Savin Miller, and Michele Lent Hirsch, eds.; Michelle Shapiro Abraham, contrib.
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