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Sadie Rose Weilerstein (1894–1993), author of children's books, including the K'tonton stories about the adventures of a thumb-sized boy [116] Nathanael West, novelist and screenwriter [117] Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Prize winner and author of 57 books [118] Isaac Meyer Wise, author and rabbi [119]
The awards in the Children's Picture Book category are presented to authors and illustrators. The award was known as the Marcia and Louis Posner Awardfrom 1989 to 1993 and as Louis Posner Memorial Award from 1994 to 2001 [128] There were no winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Picture Book category in 1984, 1995 and 1996 ...
Kar-Ben has created many award-winning children's books on such subjects as Jewish holidays, crafts, folktales, and contemporary stories and picture books. Many have become popular classics including The Mouse in the Matzah Factory , Once Upon a Shabbos , the Sammy Spider series, The Secret of Priest's Grotto , and the best-selling book Six ...
Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertrude are five sisters growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1912. The book follows them through a year of their childhood, as they deal with mundane chores, find joy in eating candy in bed and collecting used books from their father's junk shop, recover from scarlet fever, and celebrate Jewish holidays such as Purim and Sukkot as well as the ...
The Sydney Taylor Book Award recognizes the best in Jewish children's literature. Medals are awarded annually for outstanding books that authentically portray the Jewish experience. The award was established in 1968 by the Association of Jewish Libraries. It is named in memory of Sydney Taylor, author of the classic All-of-a-Kind Family series ...
It was created in December 2005 as a Jewish engagement and literacy program for Jewish families with young children. PJ Library is modeled after Dolly Parton's Imagination Library [2] program. PJ Library sends out free Jewish children's books and music to families "with Judaism as part of their lives." [3] on a monthly basis by subscription. It ...
Fancy Nancy is a 2005 children's picture book series written by Jane O'Connor and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser.Its first book entry spent nearly 100 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, [1] resulting in the launch of a series that now spawns over 100 titles, with sales of more than 50 million volumes.
Lady Amabel Kerr (1846–1906) – A Bible Picture Book for Catholic Children, Lives of the Saints for Children; P. B. Kerr (1956–2018) – Children of the Lamp series; Alexander Key (1904–1979) – Escape to Witch Mountain, The Forgotten Door, The Case of the Vanishing Boy; Dorothy Kilner (1755–1836) – The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse