The 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Awards, Revealed!





    🕮    The winners of the 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Awards, recognizing the best Jewish children's and young adult literature of the year, were announced on January 30, 2023 at the American Library Association's Youth Media Awards event. Martha Seif Simpson is the current chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee, and she joined us to discuss the 2023 winners of the award.

In these troubled times, when book banners are attacking America's school and public libraries to try to preserve white, straight, Christian dominance by suppressing diverse books, it is all the more important that we celebrate Jewish literature. The Jewish children's and young adult titles recognized by the Sydney Taylor Book Awards celebrate the beautiful diversity of our community and offer a wonderful bridge building tool. Support Jewish books! Read them, request them from your library, buy them if you can, talk about them with your friends and on social media, and use the hashtag #JewishBooksAreDiverseBooks on social media.

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2023 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARDS

Scroll down to see all the winning titles listed, with links to any past podcast appearances by the authors on The Book of Life.

FYI, the Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour will take place February 6-10, 2023. Details will appear soon at JewishLibraries.org.

 

Picture Book Winner: The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs by Chana Stiefel, illustrated by Susan Gal, published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.

Middle Grade Winner: Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe, An Arthur A. Levine Book, published by Levine Querido

Young Adult Winner: When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb, An Arthur A. Levine Book, published by Levine Querido

  • Podcast interview with Sacha about When the Angels Left the Old Country: January 2023

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Picture Book Honors

Big Dreams, Small Fish written and illustrated by Paula Cohen, An Arthur A. Levine Book, published by Levine Querido

The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda by Shoshana Nambi, illustrated by Moran Yogev, published by Kalaniot Books, an imprint of Endless Mountains Publishing

  • Podcast interview with Shoshana about The Very Best Sukkah: October 2022

Sitting Shiva by Erin Silver, illustrated by Michelle Theodore, published by Orca Book Publishers

Middle Grade Honors

Honey and Me by Meira Drazin, published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.

  • Podcast interview with Meira about Honey and Me when it won the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award: February 2017

Black Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack, published by Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins

  • Podcast interview with Sofiya about Anya and the Dragon: November 2020

Ellen Outside the Lines by A.J. Sass, published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group Inc.

Young Adult Honors

My Fine Fellow: A Delicious Entanglement by Jennieke Cohen, published by HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins

Some Kind of Hate by Sarah Darer Littman, published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.

Eight Nights of Flirting by Hannah Reynolds, published by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House

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Picture Book Notables

Tía Fortuna's New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey by Ruth Behar, illustrated by Devon Holzwarth, published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House

  • Blog interview with Ruth Behar about Letters from Cuba: April 2021

Madame Alexander: The Creator of the Iconic American Doll by Susan Goldman Rubin, illustrated by Sarah Dvojack, published by Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group

Shoham's Bangle by Sarah Sassoon, illustrated by Noa Kelner, published by Kar-Ben Publishing, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group

  • Podcast interview with Sarah about Shoham's Bangle coming in March 2023

Raquela's Seder by Joel Edward Stein, illustrated by Sara Ugolotti, published by Kar-Ben Publishing, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group

Middle Grade Notables

Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood with Greg Dawson, published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner by Marissa Moss, published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS

The Prince of Steel Pier by Stacy Nockowitz, published by Kar-Ben Publishing, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group

Young Adult Notables

Ethel's Song: Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems by Barbara Krasner, published by Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers

  • Blog interview with Barbara about 37 Days at Sea: April 2021

The Ghosts of Rose Hill by R.M. Romero, published by Peachtree Teen, an imprint of Peachtree Publishing

 

The Sydney Taylor Book Awards are sponsored by Jo Taylor Marshall,
daughter of All-of-a-Kind Family author Sydney Taylor.
I interviewed Jo Taylor Marshall on The Book of Life in October 2007 

 

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