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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 Nonfiction Political Power: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Michael Frizell Children’s Moses and the Runaway Lamb Jacqueline Jules; Eleanor Rees Howell, illus. Children’s Ella KVELLephant and the Search for Bubbe’s Yiddish Treasure Jen Kostman Children’s The Blue Glass Heart Yona Zeldis McDonough; Chiara Fedele, illus. Nonfiction We Survived the Holocaust: The Bluma and Felix Goldberg Story Frank W. Baker; Tim Ogline, illus. Children’s The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel Salva Rubio; Loreto Aroca, illus. Children’s Passover: A Celebration of Freedom Bonnie Bader; Joanie Stone, illus. Fiction Planning Perfect Haley Neil Children’s A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion Mara Rockliff; Juana Martinez-Neal, illus. Children’s Duct Tape Purim Jill Collela Bloomfield Children’s On the Move: Home Is Where You Find It Michael Rosen; Quentin Blake, illus. Children’s Where You’ve Got to Be Caroline Gertler Children’s Nuri and the Whale Ronit Chacham; Moran Yogev, illus. Children’s Chunky Goes to Camp Yehudi Mercado Jewish Text Salt & Honey: Jewish Teens on Feminism, Creativity, and Tradition Elizabeth Mandel, Emmanuelle Sippy, Maya Savin Miller, and Michele Lent Hirsch, eds.; Michelle Shapiro Abraham, contrib. Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 10 Next page ›› 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
Nonfiction We Survived the Holocaust: The Bluma and Felix Goldberg Story Frank W. Baker; Tim Ogline, illus.
Children’s A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion Mara Rockliff; Juana Martinez-Neal, illus.
Jewish Text Salt & Honey: Jewish Teens on Feminism, Creativity, and Tradition Elizabeth Mandel, Emmanuelle Sippy, Maya Savin Miller, and Michele Lent Hirsch, eds.; Michelle Shapiro Abraham, contrib.
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
