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The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly)

Heidi Rabinowitz

The Book of Life is an interview-format podcast about Jewish kidlit, mostly, with occasional coverage of Jewish YA/adult books, music, film and web, established in December 2005. Host: Heidi Rabinowitz Sponsors: Feldman Children"s Library at Congregation B"nai Israel of Boca Raton, Florida & the Association of Jewish Libraries

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Nancy Churnin, Biography Queen

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/10/15

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/10/nancy-churnin-biography-queen.html We are in a golden age of picture book biographies, and one prolific biographer is Nancy Churnin. She's got half a dozen bios out and more on the way, and each one is inspiring in its own way. Nancy attended the 2019 Association of Jewish Libraries conference to take part in the author luncheon, where she represented her Jewish interest books, Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing, and

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Bonus: Let's Play Superfight!

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/09/23

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/09/bonus-episode-superfight.html In May 2019 I posted an interview with Jonathan Auxier, the author of Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster. In our interview we talked about the book, of course, but we also talked about our favorite board games. I met Jonathan at the 2019 Association of Jewish Libraries conference where he'd come to accept his Sydney Taylor Book Award, and we got to play one of those games together along with a roomful of

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Live Show!

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/09/16

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-book-of-life-live-show.html At the 2019 Association of Jewish Libraries conference in Los Angeles, California, we recorded a Book of Life live show. My guests were Joni Sussman of KarBen Publishing, and author/illustrator/musician Barney Saltzberg. We discussed picture book illustration while recording our conversation in front of a live audience of Judaica librarians. Your feedback is appreciated! Please write to

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Sister Religion/Sister Kidlit

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/08/25

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/08/sister-religionsister-kidlit.html Sadaf Siddique and Gauri Manglick are the co-creators of Kitaab World, a website that promotes South Asian children's books. Within their website, they created a campaign called Counter Islamophobia Through Stories, (similar to the Love Your Neighbor campaign that I worked on to help bring Jewish books to ALL readers), and they even turned their campaign into a book called Muslims in Story. Your feedback is

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Notes from a Young Reader

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/08/08

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/08/notes-from-young-reader.html Young Aria is a voracious reader. In this interview, she shares a few of her favorite titles: All Kinds of Strong by Sharon Reiss Baker Zishe the Strongman by Robert Rubinstein Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story by Lesléa Newman The Harriet Hamsterbone series Your feedback is appreciated! Please write to

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A Cage Without Bars

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/07/10

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/07/a-cage-without-bars.html Anne Dublin is a Toronto-based author and retired synagogue librarian. She is the Canadian Correspondent for The Book of Life Podcast, performing many of our interviews with Canadian creatives. She's also the author of A Cage Without Bars, a historical middle grade novel that tells the little-known tale of Jewish children kidnapped after the expulsion from Spain and enslaved on the island of São Tomé, off the coast of

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Simple Acts: The Busy Family's Guide to Giving Back

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/06/13

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/06/simple-acts-busy-familys-guide-to.html Natalie Silverstein is the New York volunteer coordinator of Doing Good Together, an organization that empowers families to raise caring, engaged children. She wrote Simple Acts: The Busy Family's Guide to Giving Back to give parents practical ideas for incorporating service and the spirit of giving into family life. The podcast Kidlit These Days honors Jewish American Heritage Month by interviewing

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Craig Taubman & Mostly Kosher

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/05/31

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/05/craig-taubman-mostly-kosher.html Craig Taubman is a long-time star in the world of American Jewish rock and roll, and the founder of the Pico Union Project. Mostly Kosher is an up and coming Gypsy Rock Klezmer band whose tagline is “word to your bubbe.” In spring 2019, Craig Taubman brought along Mostly Kosher and together they put on a foot-stomping concert at Congregation B’nai Israel, the home of The Book of Life podcast. That gave me

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Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/05/01

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/05/sweep-story-of-girl-and-her-monster.html May 1 is May Day, the chimney sweeps’ holiday. It’s the perfect day to bring you a podcast about Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier. The book introduces us to Nan, a chimney climber, and her golem friend Charlie, a creature made of soot. This middle grade novel won the 2019 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children’s books, along with numerous other literary awards. In

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The Length of a String

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/04/15

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-length-of-string.html The Length of a String won a 2019 Sydney Taylor Honor Award in the Older Readers Category. It's a middle grade novel about Imani, an adopted black Jewish girl who wants to learn about her birth parents. When she inherits a Holocaust-era diary from her Jewish great-grandmother, she begins to see family in a whole new way. I spoke to author Elissa Brent Weissman by Skype. Your feedback is appreciated! Please write to

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The Kosher Baker

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/04/01

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-kosher-baker.html Paula Shoyer is known as The Kosher Baker. I met her at Limmud, a one day conference of Jewish learning on a wide variety of topics, held in December 2018 in Boca Raton, Florida. Paula was there to present two sessions: "Are Your Jewish Holiday Meals Dangerous?" and "Jewish Cookbooks Tell Our Stories." We sat down between sessions in the breezy courtyard for this interview. Your feedback is appreciated! Please write to

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Craig Taubman Is Coming To Town

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/03/18

Craig Taubman is coming to Congregation B'nai Israel in Boca Raton! If you will be in South Florida, don't miss this show! Call 561-241-8118 for tickets or BUY TICKETS HERE. Listen to a special message from Craig now, and keep an eye on The Book of Life for an upcoming full-length interview! bookoflifepodcast.com

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Fania's Heart

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/03/11

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/03/fanias-heart-birthday-card-in-auschwitz.html The Book of Life’s Canadian Correspondent Anne Dublin spoke to author Anne Renaud after she won the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Fania’s Heart, a Holocaust picture book for older readers. It’s the true story of a heart-shaped birthday card created in Auschwitz at great personal risk by women prisoners, from scraps of fabric, stolen materials, and glue made out of bread and water, for the

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Meet Me at the Well

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/02/07

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/02/meet-me-at-well.html Before I moved from Massachusetts back to Florida, I visited with Jane Yolen and Barbara Diamond Goldin to talk about their joint book of original feminist midrash, Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible. We sat down in Jane’s sunny kitchen and they just let it all pour out; I hardly needed to ask any questions! Your feedback is appreciated! Please write to bookoflifepodcast@gmail.com or call our voicemail

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The 2019 Sydney Taylor Book Awards, Revealed!

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/01/23

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-2019-sydney-taylor-book-manuscript.html Susan Kusel is the chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee of the Association of Jewish Libraries. She joined us by Skype from her home in Falls Church, VA. to talk about the 2019 winners of the award (and so did her dog Harry). This year's Sydney Taylor Book Awards are being announced at the ALA Youth Media Awards press conference in Seattle, WA during the ALA Midwinter Meeting on January

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Beyond the Holocaust and Holidays

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2019/01/06

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2019/01/beyond-holocaust-and-holidays-writing.html "Beyond the Holocaust and Holidays: Who Are We and What Are We Writing?" is a symposium for Jewish children's literature, welcoming novelists and publishing professionals to Honesdale, PA, March 15-18, 2019. A stellar faculty will lead discussions on issues both practical and philosophical. For this episode of The Book of Life, we've gathered four of those faculty members for our own discussion: Adam

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Stand Up: Social Justice Storytime

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2018/12/16

Hillary Saxton is a children's librarian at the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Public Library, and the creator of the event series "Stand Up! Storytime for Social Justice." She was originally scheduled to participate in the "Social Justice and Jewish Children's Books" panel at the Association of Jewish Libraries conference, featured on The Book of Life in August 2018. She was sick and couldn't make it, so I caught up with her later by Skype. Find the titles used in the 2017-18 Stand Up storytimes at the

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All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2018/12/01

Remember All-of-a-Kind Family? It's the classic chapter book by Sydney Taylor, of five sisters living on the Lower East Side in the early 20th century. Now Emily Jenkins and Paul O. Zelinsky have created an original picture book based on those same characters, All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah. Illustrator Zelinsky attended the 2018 Association of Jewish Libraries conference where he gave us a sneak peek at his artistic process, as you can see in the photo above. I snagged his email address and

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The Missing Voices of Moe and Mo

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2018/11/06

Jane Breskin Zalben is an artist/illustrator and the author of over 50 books for children. Her recent picture book, A Moon for Moe and Mo, was featured in the Missing Voice picture book discussion group on Facebook in September 2018. The Missing Voice group was created by another author, Lisa Rose, to bring books about under-represented populations into the limelight. You may be familiar with Lisa's book, Shmulik Paints the Town. I spoke with Jane and Lisa by conference call, in the week

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Light the Menorah!

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) ·

2018/10/14

At the 2018 Association of Jewish Libraries conference, I bumped into author Jacqueline Jules. She's been on the podcast before in 2014 to talk about Never Say a Mean Word Again. Her new picture book is Light the Menorah: A Hanukkah Handbook, which offers meditations for candle lighting. We grabbed a quick interview after lunch in the busy dining hall, so you will have a "you are there" experience listening to our conversation about this wonderful new holiday book!

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