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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 The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda Shoshana Nambi; Moran Yogev, illus. Children’s Rosalind Looked Closer: An Unsung Hero of Molecular Science Lisa Gerin; Chiara Fedele, illus. Children’s Miriam and the Sasquatch: A Rosh Hashanah Story Eric Kimmel; Tamara Anegon, illus. Children’s Alte Zachen / Old Things Ziggy Hanaor; Benjamin Phillips, illus. Children’s Sally Opened Doors: The Story of the First Woman Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Margeaux Lucas, illus. Nonfiction The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner Marissa Moss Children’s The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs Chana Stiefel; Susan Gal, illus. Children’s The Lost Ryū Emi Watanabe Cohen Fiction The Teacher of Warsaw Mario Escobar; Gretchen Abernathy, trans. Fiction The Ghosts of Rose Hill R. M. Romero Children’s My Hands Make the World Amalia Hoffman Children’s Until the Blueberries Grow Jennifer Wolf Kam; Sally Walker, illus. Children’s Mrs. Noah’s Doves Jane Yolen; Alida Massari, illus. Children’s Yossel’s Journey Kathryn Lasky; Johnson Yazzie, illus. Children’s José and the Pirate Captain Toledano Arnon Z. Shorr Joshua M. Edelglass Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 10 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 Rosalind Looked Closer: An Unsung Hero of Molecular Science Lisa Gerin; Chiara Fedele, illus.
Children’s Miriam and the Sasquatch: A Rosh Hashanah Story Eric Kimmel; Tamara Anegon, illus.
Children’s Sally Opened Doors: The Story of the First Woman Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Margeaux Lucas, illus.
Children’s The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs Chana Stiefel; Susan Gal, 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
