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The Sydney Taylor Book Award will be showcasing its 2018 gold and silver medalists with a Blog Tour, February 4-8, 2018! Interviews with winning authors and illustrators will appear on a variety of Jewish and kidlit blogs. Interviews will appear on the dates below, and will remain available to read at your own convenience. Below is the schedule for the 2018 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour. Please follow the links to visit the hosting blogs on or after their tour dates, and be sure to leave them plenty of comments! 2018 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARD BLOG TOUR SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018 Tammar Stein , author of The Six-Day Hero Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Older Readers Category At Walk the Ridgepole Kathy Kacer , author of To Look a Nazi in the Eye Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Teen Readers Category At Bildungsroman MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2018 Richard Michelson and Karla Gudeon , author and illustrator of The Language of Angels Sydney Taylor Book Awar

For More Information Contact: Susan Kusel, Chair Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee Association of Jewish Libraries sydneytaylorbookaward@jewishlibraries.org January 10, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Winners of the annual Sydney Taylor Book Award were announced by the Association of Jewish Libraries today. Named in memory of Sydney Taylor, author of the classic All-of-a-Kind Family series, the award recognizes books for children and teens that exemplify high literary standards while authentically portraying the Jewish experience.  2018 is the 50th Anniversary of the Sydney Taylor Awards. The first winner was The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig in 1968, published by the Thomas Y. Crowell Company. GOLD MEDALISTS The Language of Angels: A Story About the Reinvention of Hebrew by Richard Michelson, illustrated by Karla Gudeon, published by Charlesbridge, won the Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Younger Readers category. This beautiful picture book te

For More Information Contact: Aileen Grossberg, Coordinator Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award Committee Association of Jewish Libraries STMACAJL@AOL.com tinyurl.com/stma18 January 10, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award Competition committee is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2018 award. Judith Pransky, author of The Seventh Handmaiden , will receive the award at the annual conference of the Association of Jewish Libraries to be held in Boston, MA, from June 18-20, 2018. The Award is offered annually to an unpublished manuscript that has broad appeal to readers aged 8-13 and presents Jewish life in a positive light. Set in the time of King Xerxes of Persia, the novel begins with the kidnapping of a young girl and then flashes forward several years to focus on Darya, a young slave who is uncertain of her origins. The story follows Darya and her free friend Parvaneh from service in the household of a Persian army captain to positions in Xer

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST     🕮    Susan Kusel is the chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee of the Association of Jewish Libraries. She joined us by Skype from her home in Falls Church, VA. to talk about the 2018 winners of the award.  Here's the official Sydney Taylor Book Award announcement: click here .  The Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour will take place February 4-8, 2018. For details, click here . The Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award was mentioned in the interview: click here .   The National Jewish Book Award winners from the Jewish Book Council have also been announced! To see their winners, click here . CREDITS: Theme music: The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band   Facebook: facebook.com/bookoflifepodcast    Twitter: @bookoflifepod   Patreon: patreon.com/bookoflife Photo: Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee Chair Susan Kusel with 2018 gold medalist titles Your feedback is appreciated! Please write to bookoflifepodcast@gmail.com or call o

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST     🕮    The winners of the 2018 Sydney Taylor Book Awards for the best in Jewish children's and teen literature will be announced on January 10, 2018 . Chair Susan Kusel gave The Book of Life an exclusive interview that will be posted on that date. In the meantime, here is her dedication to the hardworking awards committee.   Photo: STBA Committee: Left to right Front row: Ellen Tilman, Diane Rauchwerger, Kathy Bloomfield, Back row: Rivka Yerushalmi, Rebecca Levitan, Susan Kusel, Elissa Gershowitz, Heather Lenson Not pictured: Marjorie Shuster, Rena Citrin