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The City of Light

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

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

Anna Caplan

February 3, 2020

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.)

Interview

Mirrors and Windows: A Conversation with Lesléa Newman on Diversity in Children’s Books

Emily Schneider

December 3, 2019

Crushing the Red Flowers

Jennifer Voigt Kaplan

Daniel and Ismail

Juan Pablo Iglesias (auth.), Alex Peris (illus.), Ilan Stavans (trans.)

Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children

Kath Shackleton (ed.), Zane Whittingham (illus.)

Union Made: Labor Leader Samuel Gompers and his Fight for Workers’ Rights

Norman H. Finkelstein

The Elephant in the Sukkah

Sherri Mandel (auth.), Ivana Kaufman (illus.)

In the Jerusalem Forest

Devora Busheri (auth.), Noa Kelner (illus.)