2025 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour

The Sydney Taylor Book Award will be showcasing its 2025 honorees with a Blog Tour, February 10-14, 2025! Interviews with winning authors and illustrators will appear on a variety of blogs, podcasts, and Bookstagram accounts. Interviews will appear on the dates listed, and will remain available to read at your own convenience.

Below is the schedule for the 2025 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!

Right now, the links below lead to the homepage of each blog. Note that after the blog tour is over, I'll update the links to go directly to the interview posts.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky, and Stacey Dressen McQueen, authors and illustrator of An Etrog from Across the Sea
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Picture Book Category
at Picture Books Help Kids Soar

Sammy Savos, author/illustrator of The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Middle Grade Category
at A Fuse #8 Production at School Library Journal

A.R. Vishny, author of Night Owls
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Young Adult Category
at LGBTQ Reads

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Lesléa Newman and Susan Gal, author and illustrator of Joyful Song
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at Out of the Box at The Horn Book

Sidura Ludwig and Sophia Vincent Guy, author and illustrator of Rising
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at 100 Scope Notes at School Library Journal

Joshua S. Levy, author of Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at The Book of Life Podcast

Ruth Behar, author of Across So Many Seas
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at E Train Talks

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Vesper Stamper, illustrator of Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan's Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at Jewish Books for Kids...And More

Elisa Boxer and Alianna Rozentsveig, author and illustrator of The Tree of Life: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at the Jewish Book Council's Paper Brigade Daily

A.J. Sass, author of Just Shy of Ordinary
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at Bookishly Jewish

Sacha Lamb, author of The Forbidden Book
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at Kayla Reads

Adam Gidwitz (Max in the House of Spies), Deke Moulton (Benji Zeb Is a Ravenous Werewolf), and Deborah Lakritz (Things That Shimmer)
Sydney Taylor Notable Books in the Middle Grade Category
at From the Mixed-Up Files of Middle Grade Authors

Cambria Gordon, author of Trajectory
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at LitByLilli

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Danielle Sharkan and Selina Alko (Sharing Shalom), Linda Leopold Strauss and Tim Smart (Everybody's Book), and Marc Kornblatt and Nanette Regan (Mr. Katz and Me)
Sydney Taylor Notable Books in the Picture Book Category
at Watch. Connect. Read. 

Edith Eva Eger (The Ballerina of Auschwitz) and Suzy Zail (Inkflower)
Sydney Taylor Notable Books in the Young Adult Category
at Zoe Reads

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Blog Tour Wrap-Up at The Children's Book Podcast