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    children's literature

    Cover of Ezra's BIG Shabbat Question
    Chil­dren’s
    Ezra’s BIG Shab­bat Question
    Aviva L. Brown, Anastasia Knavaliu (illus.)
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    Chil­dren’s
    Wel­com­ing Eli­jah: A Passover Tale with a Tail
    Lesléa Newman, Susan Gal (illus.)
    Essay

    Wait­ing for Eli­jah: Passover In Times of Adver­si­ty in Children’s Pic­ture Books

    Emi­ly Schneider
    April 8, 2020
    Cover of Judah Touro Didn’t Want to Be Famous
    Chil­dren’s
    Judah Touro Didn’t Want to Be Famous
    Audrey Ades, Vivien Mildenberger (illus.)
    Cover of Ruth Objects: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    Chil­dren’s
    Ruth Objects: The Life of Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg
    Doreen Rappaport, Eric Velasquez (illus.)
    Cover of Parrots, Pugs, and Pixie Dust: A Book About Fashion Designer Judith Leiber
    Chil­dren’s
    Par­rots, Pugs, and Pix­ie Dust: A Book About Fash­ion Design­er Judith Leiber
    Deborah Blumenthal, Masha D’Yans (illus.)
    Cover of Clarence's Topsy-Turvy Shabbat
    Chil­dren’s
    Clarence’s Top­sy-Turvy Shabbat
    Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod, Jennie Poh (illus.)
    Essay

    Hid­den Hero­ine: Queen Esther in Children’s Books

    Emi­ly Schneider
    March 9, 2020
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Per­sian Princess
    Barbara Diamond Goldin, Steliyana Doneva (illus.)
    Cover of The Life of a Coat
    Chil­dren’s
    The Life of a Coat
    Kadya Molodowsky, Batia Kolton (illus.), Ilana Kurshan (trans.)
    Cover of Who Will Ask the Four Questions
    Chil­dren’s
    Who Will Ask the Four Questions
    Naomi Ben-Gur, Carmel Ben-Ami (illus.), Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann (trans.)  
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Gen­er­ous Fish
    Jacqueline Jules, Frances Tyrrell (illus.)  
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    The City of Light
    Theodore Bikel, Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, Noah Phillips (illus.)  
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    The Passover Mouse
    Joy Nelkin Wieder (auth.), Shahar Kober (illus.)  
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    We Had to Be Brave: Escap­ing the Nazis on the Kindertransport
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