The Book of Life on Book Awards, January 2006

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    🕮    This episode of The Book of Life, a show about Jewish people and the books we read, features:

• Sarah Darer Littman, winner of the 2006 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children's literature in the Older Readers Category for the book Confessions of a Closet Catholic
• Andy Rubin, founder of The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band
• Author Erica Silverman and illustrator Mordicai Gerstein, winners of the 2006 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children's literature in the Younger Readers Category for the book Sholom's Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer
• Jewish Educator Dorothy Herman, sharing a page from her own personal "Book of Life"

The Sydney Taylor Book Award is presented each year by the Association of Jewish Libraries to the best in Jewish children's literature.