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Looking for children’s and young adult books by Jewish authors? Katherine Locke’s list is an excellent place to start: Picture Books: • Gitty and Kvetch by Caroline Kusin Pritchard, illustrated by Ariel Landy • The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and...

Looking for children’s and young adult books by Jewish authors? Katherine Locke’s list is an excellent place to start:

Picture Books:

Middle Grade:

Young Adult:

Read more about the books (including why Locke recommends them) here!

[Image Description: Graphic featuring the WNDB logo and a tiled square of cover art for 9 children’s and young adult books written by Jewish authors, set against a colorful background of abstract shapes.]

(Source: diversebooks.org)

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Sep 09, 2021

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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Sep 27, 2017

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