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Emily Schneider Emily Schneider writes about literature, feminism, and culture for Tablet, The Forward, The Horn Book, and other publications, and writes about children’s books on her blog. She has a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures. Website Reviews Articles Fiction The Spy with the Red Balloon Katherine Locke Children’s A Moon for Moe and Mo Jane Breskin Zalben; Mehrdokht Amini, illus. Children’s The Bagel King Andrew Larsen; Sandy Nichols, illus. Children’s Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall’s Life and Art Barb Rosenstock; Mary GrandPré , illus. Children’s All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah Emily Jenkins; Paul O. Zelinsky, illus. Children’s God Bless America: The Story of an Immigrant Named Irving Berlin Adah Nuchi; Rob Polivka, illus. Children’s No Truth Without Ruth: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Kathleen Krull; Nancy Zhang, illus. Nonfiction Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust Planaria Price, Helen Reichmann West Children’s Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible Jane Yolen, Barbara Diamond Goldin; Vali Mintzi, illus. Fiction Mapping the Bones Jane Yolen Visual Arts All the World Praises You! Debra Band Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 23 Essay The World is Round: Jewish Children’s Books Welcome the New Year Emily Schneider September 26, 2019 Interview “Moments Like That”: A Conversation with Author and Illustrator Jane Breskin Zalben Emily Schneider June 24, 2019 Essay Marilyn Sachs, Forgotten Pioneer in Children’s Literature At a time when children’s literature was filled with picture-perfect families, Marilyn Sachs painted a darker, richer reality. Emily Schneider June 3, 2019 Interview A Conversation with Children’s Author Debbie Levy Emily Schneider February 25, 2019 Interview On Golems and Empathy: An Interview with Jonathan Auxier Emily Schneider February 11, 2019 Essay I Re-Read American Girl’s Rebecca Rubin Books, and They Hold Up Emily Schneider December 3, 2018 Essay—From the Journal Louisa May Alcott and the Jews of ‘Little Women’ Revisiting Louisa May Alcott’s classic 150 years afters its release, and its minor (and mildly offensive) Jewish characters. Emily Schneider November 19, 2018 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 3
Children’s Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall’s Life and Art Barb Rosenstock; Mary GrandPré , illus.
Children’s God Bless America: The Story of an Immigrant Named Irving Berlin Adah Nuchi; Rob Polivka, illus.
Children’s No Truth Without Ruth: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Kathleen Krull; Nancy Zhang, illus.
Nonfiction Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust Planaria Price, Helen Reichmann West
Children’s Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible Jane Yolen, Barbara Diamond Goldin; Vali Mintzi, illus.
Essay The World is Round: Jewish Children’s Books Welcome the New Year Emily Schneider September 26, 2019
Interview “Moments Like That”: A Conversation with Author and Illustrator Jane Breskin Zalben Emily Schneider June 24, 2019
Essay Marilyn Sachs, Forgotten Pioneer in Children’s Literature At a time when children’s literature was filled with picture-perfect families, Marilyn Sachs painted a darker, richer reality. Emily Schneider June 3, 2019
Interview On Golems and Empathy: An Interview with Jonathan Auxier Emily Schneider February 11, 2019
Essay I Re-Read American Girl’s Rebecca Rubin Books, and They Hold Up Emily Schneider December 3, 2018
Essay—From the Journal Louisa May Alcott and the Jews of ‘Little Women’ Revisiting Louisa May Alcott’s classic 150 years afters its release, and its minor (and mildly offensive) Jewish characters. Emily Schneider November 19, 2018
