Coming Right Up: SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARD BLOG TOUR

Once again, I am thrilled to participate in the Sydney Taylor Award Blog Tour.

The Sydney Taylor Book Award is presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience.

I finished Morris Gleitzman's THEN last night and feel inadequate to say anything regarding such a profound book.  But I shall return to review it before my interview with Morris on Tuesday, November  7. 

Meanwhile please check out the following blog tour schedule and drop by each site to meet the authors and their amazing stories.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2012  (Honor Awards)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti, author of Naamah and the Ark at Night - Honor Award in the Younger Readers Category at Ima On & Off the Bima
Holly Meade, illustrator of Naamah and the Ark at Night  - Honor Award in the Younger Readers Category at Into the Wardrobe
Shelley Sommer, author of Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg, Baseball Pioneer - Honor Award in the Older Readers Category at Great Kid Books

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012   (Honor Awards)

Marcia Vaughan, author of Irena’s Jar of Secrets  - Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category at Shelf-Employed
Ron Mazellan, illustrator of Irena’s Jar of Secrets - Honor Award in the Older Readers Category at The Children’s War


TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012  (Honor Awards)
Trina Robbins, author of Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer - Honor Award in the Older Readers Category at Bildungsroman
Anne Timmons (and possibly Mo Oh), illustrators of of Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer- Honor Award in the Older Readers Category at Gathering Books
Morris Gleitzman, author of Then - Honor Award in the Teen Readers Category at The 3 Rs

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012    (AWARD WINNERS)

Michael Rosen, author of Chanukah Lights - Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
at A Chair, a Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy - Robert Sabuda, illustrator/paper engineer of Chanukah Lights -
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category at Practically Paradise
Susan Goldman Rubin, author of Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category at Cynsations
Robert Sharenow, author of The Berlin Boxing Club - Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category at Jewish Books for Children

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012   (Honor Awards)

Durga Yael Bernhard, author &  illustrator of Around the World in One Shabbat - Honor Award in the Younger Readers Category at Frume Sarah’s World
Shirley Vernick, author of The Blood Lie - Honor Award in the Teen Readers Category at The Fourth Musketeer

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012   (Notables)

Eric Kimmel, author of The Golem’s Latkes - Notable Book, (and winner of the National Jewish Book Award) at Ann Koffsky’s Blog 
Gloria Spielman, author of Marcel Marceau, Master of Mime - Notable Book, (and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award) at Shannon and the Sunshine Band
Richard Michelson, author of Lipman Pike: America’s First Home Run King - Notable Book, (and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award) at Blue Thread

Sydney Taylor Award Winners – Wrap-Up!
All winners, all categories at The Whole Megillah