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A Scarf for Keiko

Ann Malaspina Illustrated by Merrilee Liddiard

Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines

Sarah Aronson; Robert Neubecker, illus.

Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story

Lesléa Newman; Amy June Bates, illus.

Resistance

Jennifer A. Nielsen

The Princess Dolls

Ellen Schwartz; Mariko Ando, illus.

Gal Gadot: Soldier, Model, Wonder Woman

The Creation Book

Chani Gansburg; Dena Ackerman, illus.

Bitter and Sweet

Sandra V. Feder; Kyrsten Brooker Brooker, illus.

Jerusalem: The Experiential Guidebook

Tali Kaplinski Tarlow

Silver Stars (Front Lines)

Purple Hearts (Front Lines)

How It’s Made: Hanukkah Menorah

Allison Ofanansky; Eliyahu Alpern

Interview

Interview: Susan Krawitz

Michal Hoschander Malen

February 6, 2018

Interview

Interview: Barbara Bietz

with Michal Hoschander MalenBarbara Bietz, author of The Sundown Kid, talks to Michal Hoschander Malen about the pioneer Jews of the American West, their reception…

Michal Hoschander Malen

May 22, 2017

Interview

Interview: Devra Lehmann

with Michal Hoschander MalenDevra Lehmann is the author of Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker, winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Children’s…

Michal Hoschander Malen

February 21, 2016

Interview

Interview: Laura Amy Schlitz

with Michal Hoschander MalenJewish Book Council and Laura Amy Schlitz sat down to talk about Laura’s young adult novel The Hired Girl, which recently won both the…

Michal Hoschander Malen

February 9, 2016

Interview

Interview: Rabbi Sandy Sasso

by Michal Hoschander MalenJBW’s Michal Hoschander Malen interviewed Rabbi Sandy Sasso about the many children’s books she has authored and about where she finds the…

Michal Hoschander Malen

November 13, 2014

Essay

Doreen Rappaport Speaks on Holocaust Remembrance Day

by Michal Hoschander MalenDoreen Rappaport, author of numerous highly acclaimed books for children and young adults, spoke on Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Great…

Michal Hoschander Malen

November 6, 2014

Interview

Interview: Yaffa Ganz

by Michal Hoschander MalenJewish Book Council’s Michal Hoschander Malen speaks with children’s author Yaffa Ganz from her home in Israel. Michal Hoschander Malen:…

Michal Hoschander Malen

October 30, 2014

Interview

An Interview with Author and Illustrator Ann Koffsky

by Michal Hoschander MalenAn interview with author and illustrator Ann Koffksy, whose most recent book, Frogs in the Bed: My Passover Seder Activity Book (Behrman…

Michal Hoschander Malen

April 1, 2014

Essay

The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter

by Michal Hoschander MalenThe New York Public Library has curated an outstanding new exhibit titled The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter. On display is…

Michal Hoschander Malen

March 13, 2014

Interview

Interview: Sarah Aronson

JBW’s Michal Hoschander Malen spoke to Sarah Aronson, author of the recently published young adult novel Believe.Michal Hoschander Malen: Believe is a book which is…

Michal Hoschander Malen

March 11, 2014

Interview

Interview: Maryann Macdonald

by Michal H. MalenMaryann Macdonald is the author of Odette’s Secrets (Bloomsbury).Michal H. Malen: Please tell us some more about the real Odette Meyers, the person on…

Michal Hoschander Malen

July 1, 2013

Recommended Reading

2013 Children’s Passover Favorites: New and Old

JBC children’s editor Michal Malen compiled a list of children’s Passover books below, including new and recent titles, as well as older favorites. Feel free to comment…

Michal Hoschander Malen

March 11, 2013