Looking Back: Sometimes The All of a Kind Family Isn’t

By Laurel Snyder If I’m being really honest, I have to admit I didn’t grow up with an especially strong sense of Jewish children’s literature. In fact, when my first middle grade novel, was publi…

“If I’m being really honest, I have to admit I didn’t grow up with an especially strong sense of Jewish children’s literature. In fact, when my first middle grade novel, was published, a librarian asked me what made my books Jewish, and I suddenly realized that NOTHING did. I had to accept the fact that my books were not Jewish at all. Furthermore, I realized that this was probably because the books I’d grown up loving most didn’t have any Jews in them.”

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