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Essay Sifriyat Pijama Grows Up by Galina VromenWhen you see a newborn and then watch her four years later, climbing to the top of the jungle gym, you can’t believe it’s the same child. That’s the… Galina Vromen February 27, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Girl With a Brave Heart Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterOriginally published in Hebrew in Israel in 2010, The Girl With a Brave Heart: A Tale from Tehran (Rita Jahanforuz; Vali Mintzi,… Naomi Firestone-Teeter February 12, 2013
Recommended Reading New Children’s Siddur Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLast month, the fine folks over at Tribe, the Young United Synagogue in the UK, republished Siddur Shevet Asher (aka the… Naomi Firestone-Teeter October 12, 2012
Nonfiction Stories of Heaven and Earth: Bible Heroes in Contemporary Children’s Literature Hara E. Person and Diane G. Person
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: A Hen for Izzy Pippik Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterA beautiful new one from Aubrey Davis and Marie Lafrance (published by Kids Can Press earlier this month): Naomi Firestone-Teeter March 20, 2012
Visual Arts The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats Claudia J. Nahson with Maurice Berger and Emily Casden
Essay In the Sukkot Market In this special installment of the Jewish Book Council/MyJewishLearning Visiting Scribe series, we spotlight book illustrator and visual artist Eliyahu… Eliyahu Alpern October 14, 2009
Poetry I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from the Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942 – 1944 Hana Volavkova, ed.
