2018 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour Schedule

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 Award Winner in the Younger Readers Category
At Jewish Books for Kids

Alan Gratz, author of Refugee
Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner in the Older Readers Category
At Out of the Box at The Horn Book

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Fawzia Gilani-Williams and Chiara Fedele, author and illustrator of Yaffa and Fatima, Shalom, Salaam
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Younger Readers Category
At Ima On (and Off) the Bima

Susan Krawitz, author of Viva, Rose!
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Older Readers Category
At The Prosen People at The Jewish Book Council

Antonio Iturbe, author of The Librarian of Auschwitz
Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner in the Teen Readers Category
At The Book of Life

Katherine Locke, author of The Girl with the Red Balloon
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Teen Readers Category
At Book Q&A's with Deborah Kalb

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Jacqueline Jules and Yevgenia Nayberg, author and illustrator of Drop by Drop
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Younger Readers Category
At Jennifer Tzivia Macleod

Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang, co-authors of This Is Just A Test
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Older Readers Category
At The Scroll at Tablet Magazine

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Blog Tour Wrap-Up at The Whole Megillah