The Book of Life

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST     |    READ THE TRANSCRIPT     |    BUY / BORROW NOT NOTHING    |    BUY / BORROW GETTING TO SORRY     🕮    There's a website called IsItAJewishHolidayToday.com , which gives you a simple YES or NO answer, and if you go to that website during the month of October 2024, the answer is going to be YES quite a lot of the time. In honor of this holiday-packed month, I've got a 2-part series for you. I'm calling it FESTIVE FRIENDS , because each episode features a pair of friends talking about books relevant to our fall holidays. Here in Part I, the Festive Friends are Gayle Forman, author of Not Nothing , and Marjorie Ingall, author of Getting to Sorry . While neither of these books are explicitly about Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur, they are both about teshuvah, growth, and the art of apology, perfect for this season. I invited this duo not only becaus...

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST     |    READ THE TRANSCRIPT     |    BUY / BORROW THE BOOK     🕮    October 2024 is packed with Jewish holidays, so we've got a 2-part series for you to celebrate: Festive Friends. In each episode, we hear from a pair of friends about their books that will help us celebrate the Jewish holidays. In Festive Friends Part I we heard from Gayle Forman, author of Not Nothing , and Marjorie Ingall, author of Getting to Sorry . Here in Festive Friends Part II, we meet Erica Lyons and Christina Matula. Lately, Kids of mixed heritage have finally been getting their mirror books, and a great example is Erica and Christina's new picture book Mixed-Up Mooncakes , about a Chinese Jewish family celebrating the Mid Autumn Festival and Sukkot. I love the cozy atmosphere of this book, with its double harvest festival fun; and I love the comfortable way in which the Chinese and Jewish...