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Kate Gavino Michal Hoschander Malen Michal Hoschander Malen is the editor of Jewish Book Council’s young adult and children’s book reviews. A former librarian, she has lectured on topics relating to literacy, run book clubs, and loves to read aloud to her grandchildren. Reviews Articles Staff Picks Nonfiction Countering Antisemitism & Hate: A How-To Guide for Youth (8−18), Family & Educators Lynne Azarchi Harlene Lichter Galen Children’s The Schlemiel Kids Save the Moon Audrey Barbakoff; Rotem Teplow, illus. Children’s When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary Alice Hoffman Children’s Baila the Klopper Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod; Shirley Waisman, illus. Children’s Mixed-Up Mooncakes Christina Matula and Erica Lyons; Tracy Subisak, illus. Children’s Space Torah: Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman’s Cosmic Mitzvah Rachelle Burk; Craig Orback, illus. Children’s Ping-Pong Shabbat: The True Story of Champion Estee Ackerman Ann D. Koffsky; Abigail Rajunov, illus. Children’s The Sisters Z Kerry Olitzky and Deborah Bodin Cohen; Lena Tohoff, illus. Children’s Rebecca’s Prayer for President Lincoln Jane Yolen; Laura Barella, illus. Children’s Every Wrinkle Has a Story David Grossman; Ninamasina, illus.; Jessica Cohen, trans. Children’s Where Is Poppy? Caroline Kusin Pritchard Fiction Finn and Ezra’s Bar Mitzvah Time Loop Joshua S. Levy Children’s What Jewish Looks Like Liz Kleinrock and Caroline Kusin Pritchard; Iris Gottlieb, illus. Children’s Things That Shimmer Deborah Lakritz Children’s The Devash Megillat Esther Shoshanna Lockshin and Efrayim Unterman; Rivka Tsinman, illus. Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 3 Next page ›› 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 Malen An 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… Michal Hoschander Malen March 11, 2013 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 2 Fiction A Visit to Moscow Anna Olswanger, adapted from a story by Rabbi Rafael Grossman, Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator) Nonfiction Raising Raffi: The First Five Years Keith Gessen Children’s Mrs. Noah’s Doves Jane Yolen; Alida Massari, illus. Children’s The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda Shoshana Nambi; Moran Yogev, illus.
Nonfiction Countering Antisemitism & Hate: A How-To Guide for Youth (8−18), Family & Educators Lynne Azarchi Harlene Lichter Galen
Children’s Space Torah: Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman’s Cosmic Mitzvah Rachelle Burk; Craig Orback, illus.
Children’s Ping-Pong Shabbat: The True Story of Champion Estee Ackerman Ann D. Koffsky; Abigail Rajunov, illus.
Children’s What Jewish Looks Like Liz Kleinrock and Caroline Kusin Pritchard; Iris Gottlieb, illus.
Children’s The Devash Megillat Esther Shoshanna Lockshin and Efrayim Unterman; Rivka Tsinman, illus.
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 Malen An 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… Michal Hoschander Malen March 11, 2013
Fiction A Visit to Moscow Anna Olswanger, adapted from a story by Rabbi Rafael Grossman, Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator)
