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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Sydney Taylor (October 30, 1904 – February 12, 1978) was an American writer, known for her series of children's books about a Jewish-American family in New York during the early 20th century. Her first book won the Charles W. Follett Award in children's literature.
Kitty Barne (1883–1961) – She Shall Have Music, Family Footlights, Visitors from London, Rosina Copper; Derrick Barnes – Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, Ruby and the Booker Boys series; Kelly Barnhill (living) – The Girl Who Drank the Moon; J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) – Peter Pan; T. A. Barron (born 1952) – The Lost Years of Merlin
Yellow Star is a 2006 biographical children's novel by Jennifer Roy. Written in free verse, it depicts life through the eyes of a young Jewish girl whose family was forced into the Łódź Ghetto in 1939 during World War II. Roy tells the story of her aunt Syvia, who shared her childhood memories with Roy more than 50 years after the ghetto's ...