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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 Fiction Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense Joyce Carol Oates Nonfiction Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War Deb Olin Unferth Nonfiction Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son Michael Chabon Fiction Vaclav & Lena Haley Tanner Fiction Beatrice and Virgil Yann Martel Fiction Skinny Diana Spechler Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 29 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 Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son Michael Chabon
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)
