The 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Awards, Revealed!

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    🕮    The winners of the 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Awards, recognizing the best Jewish children's and young adult literature of the year, were announced on January 22, 2024 at the American Library Association's Youth Media Awards event. Aviva Rosenberg is the current chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee, and she joined us to discuss the 2024 winners of the award.

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2024 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 5-9, 2024. Details will appear soon at JewishLibraries.org.

Picture Book Winner: Two New Years by Richard Ho, illustrated by Lynn Scurfield, published by Chronicle Books

  • Podcast interview with Richard and Lynn about Two New Years: September 2023

Middle Grade Winner: The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman by Mari Lowe, an Arthur A. Levine book, published by Levine Querido

Young Adult Winner: The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold, published by Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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Picture Book Honors

Hidden Hope: How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust by Elisa Boxer, illustrated by Amy June Bates, published byAbrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS 

Afikomen by Tziporah Cohen, illustrated by Yaara Eshet, published by Groundwood Books

Hanukkah Upside Down by Elissa Brent Weissman, illustrated by Omer Hoffmann, published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS

  • Podcast interview with Elissa about Hanukkah Upside Down: December 2023

Middle Grade Honors

The Jake Show by Josh Levy, published by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

  • Podcast interview with Josh about The Jake Show: August 2023

Not So Shy by Noa Nimrodi, published by Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group

A Sky Full of Song by Susan Lynn Meyer, published by Union Square Kids, an imprint of Union Square, & Co.

  • Podcast interview with Susan about A Sky Full of Song: May 2023

Don’t Want to Be Your Monster by Deke Moulton, published by Tundra Books, an imprint of Tundra Book Group, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited

Young Adult Honors

Courage to Dream by Neal Shusterman, illustrated by Andrés Vera Martinez, published by Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc

Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler, published by Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers

Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe by Steve Sheinkin, published by Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers

Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros, published by Inkyard Press, an imprint of Harlequin Trade Publishing, a division of HarperCollins Publisher

  • Podcast interview with Aden about The City Beautiful: February 2022

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Picture Book Notables

The Rabbi and His Donkey by Susan Tarcov, illustrated by Diana Renjina, published by Kar-Ben,, and imprint of Lerner Publishing Group

Zhen Yu and the Snake by Erica Lyons, illustrated by Renia Metallinou, published by Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group.

Middle Grade Notable

The Witch of Woodland by Laurel Snyder, published by Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 

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Body-of-Work Winner: Joni Sussman, publisher at Kar-Ben Publishing. 

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Manuscript Award Winner: "Ava's Golem" by Marlaina Cockcroft

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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