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Hidden Heroine: Queen Esther in Children’s Books

Emily Schneider

March 9, 2020

Parrots, Pugs, and Pixie Dust: A Book About Fashion Designer Judith Leiber

Deborah Blumenthal, Masha D’Yans (illus.)

Clarence’s Topsy-Turvy Shabbat

Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod, Jennie Poh (illus.)

A Persian Princess

Barbara Diamond Goldin, Steliyana Doneva (illus.)

The Life of a Coat

Kadya Molodowsky, Batia Kolton (illus.), Ilana Kurshan (trans.)

Who Will Ask the Four Questions

Naomi Ben-Gur, Carmel Ben-Ami (illus.), Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann (trans.)  

The Generous Fish

Jacqueline Jules, Frances Tyrrell (illus.)  

Recommended Reading

New Year for the Trees: A Children’s Reading List for Tu Bishvat

Anna Caplan

February 3, 2020

The City of Light

Theodore Bikel, Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, Noah Phillips (illus.)  

The Passover Mouse

Joy Nelkin Wieder (auth.), Shahar Kober (illus.)  

We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

Deborah Hopkinson

A Fist for Joe Louis and Me

Trinka Hikes Noble (auth.), Nicole Tadgell (illus.)  

A Basket Full of Figs

Ori Elon (auth.), Menahem Halberstadt (illus.)  

Judith Kerr: The Illustrators

Essay

Hanukkah as History

Emily Schneider

December 22, 2019

Goodnight Bubbala: A Joyful, Jewish, Not-So-Quiet Parody of Goodnight Moon

Sheryl Haft (auth.), Jill Weber (illus.)