The Book of Life

  LISTEN TO THE PODCAST     |    READ THE TRANSCRIPT       🕮   It’s The Book of Life’s 20th Anniversary! In celebration, here’s a super deluxe retrospective episode, with short clips from every year of the podcast. We’ll start with this anniversary year, 2025, and then move back through time to 2005. HANUKKAH TREATS:  Miniature Zine about the podcast - -  print and fold! folding instructions here Book of Life 20th Anniversary Merch -- sales benefit the Association of Jewish Libraries   LEARN MORE:  Read Podcasting Since the Dawn of Time , my essay on the evolution of the show  Like the clips in this special? Click on the images below to hear the full episodes: CREDITS: Produced by Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel Co-sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries Sister podcast: Nice Jewish Books Theme Music: The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band Newsletter: bookoflif...

    LISTEN TO THE PODCAST     |    READ THE TRANSCRIPT     |    LISTEN TO FUSE 8 N' KATE     🕮    Fuse 8 n’ Kate is a weekly podcast hosted by School Library Journal, in which super-librarian Betsy Bird and her sister Kate evaluate 20+ year old picture books to decide whether they should be considered classics. Since The Book of Life is 20 years old (and hopefully a classic), I asked Betsy and Kate to collaborate on a Hanukkah episode! We did a joint episode that will appear on both our feeds, interviewed each other, and talked about The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes by Linda Glaser, illustrated by Nancy Cote, published in 1997. Did we decide it was a classic? Listen and find out!  LEARN MORE: Fuse 8 n’ Kate Podcast Buy or Borrow The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes Linda Glaser’s website Nancy Cote’s website Linda Glaser on The Book of Life in 2006 ( Bridge to America ) and 2014 ( Hannah’s Way ) Betsy’s 2025 recomm...