Archive: The Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour
In 2009, the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee dreamed up the brilliant idea of celebrating each year's winners with a blog tour: a virtual book tour in which authors and illustrators appear on a variety of Jewish and literary blogs (or podcasts, or Bookstagrams) during a celebratory week soon after the annual winner reveal. Because the Internet is forever (mostly), you can still read interviews from each past year by clicking on the links below. They are listed chronologically, the the oldest blog tour at the top and the most recent blog tour at the bottom of this page.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2009
Karen Hesse, author of Brooklyn Bridge
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Jewish Books for Children
Aranka Siegal, author of Memories of Babi
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at The Book of Life
MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 2009
Richard Michelson, author of As Good As Anybody
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
and A is for Abraham
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at The Well-Read Child
Ron Mazellan, illustrator of A is for Abraham
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Tales from the Rushmore Kid
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20 2009
Valerie Zenatti, author of A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Lori Calabrese Writes (no longer available)
Jane Yolen, author of Naming Liberty
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at The Boston Bibliophile
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2009
Anna Levine, author of Freefall
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
and Jodie's Hanukkah Dig
Notable Book in the Younger Readers Category
at Abby the Librarian
Jim Burke, illustrator of Naming Liberty
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at The Page Flipper (no longer available)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2009
Jacqueline Jules, author of Sarah Laughs
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Chicken Spaghetti
Natascia Ugliano, illustrator of Sarah Laughs
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Write for a Reader
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2009
Deborah Bodin Cohen, author of Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Becky's Book Reviews
Shahar Kober, illustrator of Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Into the Wardrobe
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Practically Paradise at School Library Journal
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Frume Sarah's World
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at bookstogether
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Little Willow's Bildungsroman
Jacqueline Davies, author of Lost
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Biblio File
Jonah Winter, author of You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Get in the Game: Read!
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at BewilderBlog
Adam Gustavson, illustrator of The Yankee at the Seder
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Great Kids Books
Judy Vida, daughter of the late Selma Kritzer Silverberg, author of Naomi's Song
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at The Book Nosher
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at ASHarmony
Natascia Ugliano, illustrator of Benjamin and the Silver Goblet
at The Book of Life
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Ima On and Off the Bima
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Jewish Books for Children
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at The Little Book Room
Sydney Taylor Notable Book for All Ages
at Deo Writer
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011
Carla Jablonski, author of Resistance
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Jewish Comics
Leland Purvis, illustrator of Resistance
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Shelf-Employed
Sarah Gershman, author of Modeh Ani: A Good Morning Book
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Biblio File
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Linda Glaser, author of Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at ASHarmony
Claire Nivola, illustrator of Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Lori Calabrese Writes (no longer available)
Evelyn Krieger, author of One Is Not a Lonely Number
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Ima On and Off the Bima
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Barbara Diamond Goldin, author of Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Great Kid Books
Jaime Zollars, illustrator of Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at The Book of Life
Susan Lynn Meyer, author of Black Radishes
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at The 3 Rs - Reading, 'Riting, and Research
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2011
Howard Schwartz, author of Gathering Sparks
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Boston Bibliophile
Barry Deutsch, author and illustrator of Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at BewilderBlog
Dana Reinhardt, athor of The Things a Brother Knows
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at A Chair, a Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011
Kristina Swarner, illustrator of Gathering Sparks
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
and illustrator of Modeh Ani: A Good Morning Book
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at The SCBWI Blog
Sarah Darer Littman, author of Life, After
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Into the Wardrobe
Eishes Chayil, author of Hush
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Cateogry
at Frume Sarah's World
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011
Morris Gleitzman, author of Once
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readeres Category
at The Fourth Musketeer
Sydney Taylor Award Winners - Wrap-Up
All winners, all categories
at The Whole Megillah
Ron Mazellan, illustrator of Irena's Jar of Secrets
Shirley Vernick, author of The Blood Lie
All winners, all categories
at The Whole Megillah
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013
Ann Redisch Stampler, author of The Wooden Sword
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Shelf-Employed
Carol Liddiment, illustrator of The Wooden Sword
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Ann Koffsky’s Blog
Doreen Rappaport, author of Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
Sydney Taylor Honor Award in the Teen Readers Category
at Bildungsroman
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Linda Glaser, author of Hannah’s Way
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at This Messy Life
Adam Gustavson, illustrator of Hannah’s Way
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger ReadersCategory
at Sketching Out
Louise Borden, author of His Name was Raoul Wallenberg
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Randomly Reading
Deborah Heiligman, author of Intentions
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at The Fourth Musketeer
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Sheri Sinykin, author of Zayde Comes to Live
Sydney Taylor Honor Award in the Younger Readers Category
at Read, Write, Repeat
Kristina Swarner, illustrator of Zayde Comes to Live
Sydney Taylor Honor Award in the Younger Readers Category
at Writing and Illustrating
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Linda Leopold Strauss, author of The Elijah Door
Sydney Taylor Honor Award in the Younger Readers Category
at Pen and Prose
Alexi Natchev, illustrator of The Elijah Door
Sydney Taylor Honor Award in the Younger Readers Category
at Madelyn Rosenberg’s Virtual Living Room
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2013
Blog Tour Wrap-Up with all authors and illustrators
at The Whole Megillah
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2014
Renee Londner, author of Stones for Grandpa
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at The Write Stuff
Martha Aviles, illustrator of Stones for Grandpa
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Practically Paradise at School Library Journal
Aline Sax, author, Caryl Strzelecki, illustrator, and Laura Watkinson, translator of The War Within These Walls
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at The 3 R's: Reading, 'Riting, Research
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2014
Laurel Snyder, author of The Longest Night
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Geo Librarian
Catia Chen, illustrator of The Longest Night
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Holy Sparks
Robyn Bavati, author of Dancing in the Dark
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Bildungsroman
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2014
Neal Bascomb, author of The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Randomly Reading
Carol Matas, author of Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Pen and Prose
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014
Cosei Kawa, illustrator of Rifka Takes a Bow
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Jewish Books for Children
Elisabeth Leyson, contributor to The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler’s List
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at The Interlace Place
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2014
Patricia Polacco, author and illustrator of The Blessing Cup
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Ann Koffsky's Blog
Blog Tour Wrap-Up with All Authors and Illustrators
at The Whole Megillah
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2015
Una La Marche, author of Like No Other
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Bildungsroman
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2015
Lizzie Skurnick, publisher of Isabel's War by Lila Perl
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Pen and Prose
Jennifer Elvgren and Fabio Santomauro, author and illustrator of The Whispering Town
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at The Fourth Musketeer
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015
Loic Dauvillier, Mark Lizano and Greg Salsedo, creators of Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at The Interlace Place
Jim Aylesworth and Barbara McClintock, author and illustrator of My Grandfather's Coat
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Sandra Bornstein's Blog - Part 1 and Part 2
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2015
Barbara Krasner and Kelsey Garrity-Riley, author and illustrator of Goldie Takes a Stand
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Adventures in MamaLand
Donna Jo Napoli, author of Storm
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Jewish Books for Kids
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2015
Donna Gephart, author of Death by Toilet Paper
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Amitha Knight
Jacqueline Jules and Durga Yael Bernhard, author and illustrator of Never Say a Mean Word Again
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Ann Koffsky's Blog with separate Author and Illustrator interviews
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015
Blog Tour Wrap-Up with all authors and illustrators
at The Whole Megillah
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016
Lesléa Newman and Amy June Bates, author and illustrator of Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Ann Koffsky's Blog, with separate Author and Illustrator interviews
Suzanne Nelson, author of Serendipity's Footsteps
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Bildungsroman
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Jeffrey M. Green, translator of Adam and Thomas by Aharon Appelfeld, illustrated by Philippe Dumas
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Jewish Books for Kids
Barry Deutsch, author of Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Jewish Comics
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Laura Amy Schlitz, author of The Hired Girl
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at The Prosen People at The Jewish Book Council
Heidi Smith Hyde and Jing Jing Tsong, author and illustrator of Shanghai Sukkah
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Kristi's Book Nook
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2016
Leslie Kimmelman, author of Everybody Says Shalom, illustrated by Talitha Shipman
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Book Q and A's with Deborah Kalb
Kathy Kacer, author of Stones on a Grave
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Randomly Reading
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2016
Blog Tour Wrap-Up with all authors and illustrators
at The Whole Megillah
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Gavriel Savit, author of Anna and the Swallow Man
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Book Q and A's with Deborah Kalb
Andrea Davis Pinkney (author), Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (illustrators) of A Poem for Peter
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at The Book of Life
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeley, author and illustrator of I Dissent
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Ima On and Off the Bima
Joel Ben Izzy, author of Dreidels on the Brain
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Bildungsroman
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Adam Gidwitz and Hatem Aly, author and illustrator of The Inquisitor's Tale
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at The Prosen People at The Jewish Book Council
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2017
Michelle Edwards and G. Brian Karas, author and illustrator of A Hat for Mrs. Goldman
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Jewish Books for Kids
Richard Michelson and Edel Rodriguez, author and illustrator of Fascinating
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at The Horn Book Blog
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2017
Blog Tour Wrap-Up with all authors and illustrators
at The Whole Megillah
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018
Tammar Stein, author of The Six-Day Hero
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Walk the Ridgepole
Kathy Kacer, author of To Look a Nazi in the Eye
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Bildungsroman
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2018
Richard Michelson and Karla Gudeon, author and illustrator of The Language of Angels
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Jewish Books for Kids
Alan Gratz, author of Refugee
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Out of the Box at The Horn Book
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Fawzia Gilani-Williams and Chiara Fedele, author and illustrator of Yaffa and Fatima, Shalom, Salaam
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Ima On and Off the Bima
Susan Krawitz, author of Viva, Rose!
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at The Prosen People at The Jewish Book Council
Antonio Iturbe, author of The Librarian of Auschwitz
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at The Book of Life
Katherine Locke, author of The Girl with the Red Balloon
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Book Q and A's with Deborah Kalb
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2018
Jacqueline Jules and Yevgenia Nayberg, author and illustrator of Drop by Drop
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Adventures in MamaLand
Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang, co-authors of This is Just a Test
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at The Scroll at Tablet Magazine
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Blog Tour Wrap-Up with all authors and illustrators
at The Whole Megillah
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2019
Emily Jenkins and Paul Zelinsky, author and illustrator of All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at Out of the Box at the Horn Book
Barb Rosenstock and Mary GrandPré, author and illustrator of Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall's Life
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at A Fuse #8 Production at School Library Journal
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Jonathan Auxier, author of Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at The Prosen People at The Jewish Book Council
Jane Breskin Zalben and Mehrdokht Amini, author and illustrator of A Moon for Moe and Mo
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at 100 Scope Notes at School Library Journal
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Good Reads with Ronna
Elissa Brent Weissman, author of The Length of a String
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Mr. Schu Reads
Susan Kusel and Rebecca Levitan, leadership of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee
at The Children's Book Podcast
The Sydney Taylor Book Awards at ALA's Youth Media Awards
at the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC) Blog
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Vesper Stamper, author of What the Night Sings
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Erica Perl, author of All Three Stooges
Sydney Tayor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at From the Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2019
Blog Tour Wrap-Up with all authors and illustrators
at The Whole Megillah
Reflections on the 2019 Sydney Taylor Book Awards at ALA
at Susan Kusel's Blog
Blog Tour 10th Anniversary Round-Up
at The Book of Life
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Picture Book Category
at 100 Scope Notes at School Library Journal
R.J. Palacio, author of White Bird
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Middle Grade Category
at The Paper Brigade Daily at The Jewish Book Council
MONDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Rachel DeWoskin, author of Someday We Will Fly
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Young Adult Category
Debbie Levy and Sonja Wimmer, author and illustrator of The Key from Spain
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
Lesléa Newman and Amy June Bates, author and illustrator of Gittel's Journey
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category at Mr. Schu Reads
Hannah Moskowitz, author of Sick Kids in Love
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
Sofiya Pasternack, author of Anya and the Dragon
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
Victoria Ortiz, author of Dissenter on the Bench
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
Lesléa Newman and Susan Gal, author and illustrator of Welcoming Elijah
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Picture Book Category
at A Fuse #8 Production at School Library Journal
Sofiya Pasternack, author of Anya and the Nightingale
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at 100 Scope Notes at School Library Journal
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2021
M. Evan Wolkenstein, author of Turtle Boy
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Middle Grade Category
at Mr. Schu Reads
Jane Yolen and Khoa Lee, author and illustrator of Miriam at the River
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Anne Blankman, author of The Blackbird Girls
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at The Paper Brigade Daily at The Jewish Book Council
Monica Hesse, author of They Went Left
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at Jewish Books for Kids
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Tyler Feder, author of Dancing at the Pity Party
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Young Adult Category
at Out of the Box at The Horn Book
Mychal Copeland and Andre Ceolin, author and illustrator of I Am the Tree of Life
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at Good Reads with Ronna
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Tziporah Cohen, author of No Vacancy
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at From the Mixed-Up Files of Middle Grade Authors
Podcast interview at The Children’s Book Podcast
Blog Tour Wrap-Up at The Whole Megillah
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Susan Kusel and Sean Rubin, author and illustrator of The Passover Guest
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Picture Book Category
at Out of the Box at The Horn Book
Veera Hiranandani, author of How to Find What You’re Not Looking For
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Middle Grade Category
at Mr. Schu Reads
Aden Polydoros, author of The City Beautiful
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Young Adult Category
at Paper Brigade Daily at The Jewish Book Council
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Nancy Churnin and Bethany Stancliffe, author and illustrator of Dear Mr. Dickens
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at Good Reads with Ronna
Gordon Korman, author of Linked
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at 100 Scope Notes at School Library Journal
E. Lockhart, author of Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at A Fuse #8 Production at School Library Journal
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Jeff Gottesfeld and Michelle Laurentia Agatha, author and illustrator of The Christmas Mitzvah
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at Pragmatic Mom
Eugene Yelchin, author of The Genius Under the Table
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at Jewish Books for Kids
Hannah Reynolds, author of The Summer of Lost Letters
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at Bookishly Jewish
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Peter SÃs, author of Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at Vivian Kirkfeld’s Blog
Leah Scheier, author of The Last Words We Said
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at Kayla Reads and Reviews
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Podcast Interview at The Book of Life
Blog Tour Wrap-Up at The Whole Megillah
2023 COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERS, HONORS, AND NOTABLES
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Chana Stiefel and Susan Gal, author and illustrator of The Tower of Life
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Picture Book Category
at 100 Scope Notes at School Library Journal
Mari Lowe, author of Aviva vs. the Dybbuk
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Middle Grade Category
at A Fuse #8 Production at School Library Journal
Sacha Lamb, author of When the Angels Left the Old Country
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Young Adult Category
at Out of the Box at The Horn Book
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Erin Silver, author of Sitting Shiva
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at Jewish Books for Kids…And More!
Sarah Darer Littman, author of Some Kind of Hate
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at Good Reads with Ronna
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Paul Martin, widower of Paula Cohen Martin, author of Big Dreams, Small FishSydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at Picture Books Help Kids Soar
Shoshana Nambi, author of The Very Best Sukkah
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at Pragmatic Mom
Meira Drazin, author of Honey and Me
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at The Whole Megillah
Hannah Reynolds, author of Eight Nights of Flirting
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at Watch.Connect.Read
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Sofiya Pasternack, author of Black Bird, Blue Road
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at From the Mixed Up Files of Middle Grade Authors
A.J. Sass, author of Ellen Outside the Lines
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at Bookishly Jewish
Jennieke Cohen, author of My Fine Fellow
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at Paper Brigade Daily at The Jewish Book Council
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Blog Tour Wrap-Up at The Children’s Book Podcast
2024 COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERS, HONORS, AND NOTABLES
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Richard Ho and Lynn Scurfield, author and illustrator of Two New Years
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Picture Book Category
at 100 Scope Notes at School Library Journal
Elissa Brent Weissman and Omer Hoffmann, author and illustrator of Hanukkah Upside Down
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at The Pragmatic Mom
Tziporah Cohen and Yaara Eshet, author and illustrator of Afikomen
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at Out of the Box at The Horn Book
Elisa Boxer and Amy June Bates, author and illustrator of Hidden Hope
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
at Picture Books Help Kids Soar
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Susan Lynn Meyer, author of A Sky Full of Song
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at Jewish Books for Kids…And More!
Noa Nimrodi, author of Not So Shy
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at The Book of Life
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Mari Lowe, author of The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Middle Grade Category
at Good Reads with Ronna
Elana K. Arnold, author of The Blood Years
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Young Adult Category
at Watch.Connect.Read
Josh Levy, auhor of The Jake Show
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at E Train Talks
Deke Moulton, author of Don’t Want to Be Your Monster
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category
at A Fuse #8 Production at School Library Journal
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Dahlia Adler, author of Going Bicoastal
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at The Whole Megillah
Steve Sheinkin, author of Impossible Escape
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at Paper Brigade Daily at The Jewish Book Council
Neal Shusterman and Andrés Vera MartÃnez, author and illustrator of Courage to Dream
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at Bookishly Jewish
Aden Polydoros, author of Wrath Becomes Her
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Young Adult Category
at Kayla Reads and Reviews
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Blog Tour Wrap-Up at The Children’s Book Podcast
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Deborah Bodin Cohen, 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, illustrator of The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Middle Grade Category
at Fuse #8
A. R. Vishny, author of Night Owls
Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Young Adult Category
at LGBTQReads
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Lesléa Newman and Susan Gal, author and illustrator of Joyful Song: A Naming Story
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Picture Book Category
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
Josh 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
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
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 Jewish Book Council
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
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, author and illustrator of Sharing Shalom; Linda Leopold Strauss and Tim Smart, author and illustrator of Everybody’s Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah; Mark Kornblatt and Nanette Regan, author and illustrator of Mr. Katz and Me
Sydney Taylor Notable Books in the Picture Book Category
at Watch.Connect.Read
Adam Gidwitz, author of Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II; Deke Moulton, author of Benji Zeb is a Ravenous Werewolf; and Deborah Lakritz, author of Things That Shimmer
Sydney Taylor Notable Books in the Middle Grade Category
at From the Mixed Up Files
Edith Eva Eger, author of The Ballerina of Auschwitz; and Suzy Zail, author of 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
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