Sydney Taylor Book Award

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Sydney Taylor Book Award
Awarded foroutstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience
CountryUnited States
Presented by Association of Jewish Libraries
First awarded1968
Website jewishlibraries.org/content.php?page=Sydney_Taylor_Book_Award

The Sydney Taylor Book Award recognizes the best in Jewish children's literature. Medals are awarded annually for outstanding books that authentically portray the Jewish experience. The award was established in 1968 by the Association of Jewish Libraries. It is named in memory of Sydney Taylor, author of the classic All-of-a-Kind Family series. Taylor's were some of the first children's books with Jewish characters that were of literary interest to readers of all backgrounds.

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History

The award was first established by the Association of Jewish Libraries in 1968. [1] It was the first of the identity-based awards as a result of Nancy Larrick's 1965 piece The All-White World of Children's Books, establishing new precedent wherein literary excellence is paired with authentic and well-crafted representation of a particular identity, culture, and experience. [2] [3] Originally, it was known as the Shirley Kravitz Children's Book Award and was later renamed in honor of Sydney Taylor in 1978. [4] The award initially recognized books for older children, but in 1981, the award committee started to recognize books for younger readers and in 2007, began to recognize young adult literature. [5] In 1988, Honor Award Winners were added and these books receive a silver seal. [5] The current president is Rebecca Levitan.

About

Awards are presented in three categories: Younger Readers, Older Readers and Teen Readers. In each category, a single gold medalist is named annually. Each year there may also be several silver medalists named in each category. A list of ten to twenty Notable Children's Books of Jewish Content is also named in each category, but these titles do not receive medals.

The award committee is made up of volunteers from the Association of Jewish Libraries. [5] Books are evaluated based on certain criteria one of which is literary merit. [6] Books must also be appropriate to the age level, rooted in "authentic and accurate detail" and have a positive and/or authentic Jewish religious or cultural content. [6] Books nominated are newly published books for the year. [7] Books can be picture books, non-fiction, fiction and poetry. [8]

Criteria

Themes

Most Sydney Taylor Book Award winning titles are universal in theme while Judaic in specific content, highlighting the rich diversity of Jewish lives and experiences, traditions, and values to Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike. [10]

Children's Book Award Recipients

Winners, Honor, and Notable Books [11]
YearCategoryAuthorIllustratorBookMedal
2023Picture Book Chana Stiefel Susan Gal The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and PhotographsWinner
Paula Cohen Paula Cohen Big Dreams, Small FishHonor
Shoshana Nambi Moran Yogev The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from UgandaHonor
Erin Silver Michelle Theodore Sitting ShivaHonor
Ruth Behar Devon Holzwarth Tia Fortuna's New Home: A Jewish Cuban JourneyNotable
Susan Goldman Rubin Sarah Dvojack Madame Alexander: The Creator of the Iconic American DollNotable
Sarah Sassoon Noa Kelner Shoham's BangleNotable
Joel Edward Stein Sara Ugolotti Raquela's SederNotable
Middle Grade Mari Lowe Aviva vs. the DybbukWinner
Meira Drazin Honey and MeHonor
Sofiya Pasternack Black Bird, Blue RoadHonor
A. J. Sass Ellen Outside the Lines Honor
Susan Hood , with Greg Dawson Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the NazisNotable
Marissa Moss Marissa Moss The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise MeitnerNotable
Stacy Nockowitz The Prince of Steel PierNotable
Young Adult Sacha Lamb When the Angels Left the Old CountryWinner
Jennieke Cohen My Fine Fellow: A Delicious EntanglementHonor
Sarah Darer Littman Some Kind of HateHonor
Hannah Reynolds Eight Nights of FlirtingHonor
Barbara Krasner Ethel's Song: Ethel Rosenberg's Life in PoemsNotable
R. M. Romero The Ghosts of Rose HillNotable
2022Picture Book Susan Kusel Sean Rubin The Passover Guest (A retelling of the classic I.L. Peretz shtetl story “The Magician”Winner
Peter Sís Peter Sís Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He RescuedHonor
Nancy Churnin Bethany Stancliffe Dear Mr. DickensHonor
Jeff Gottesfeld Michelle Laurentia Agatha The Christmas MitzvahHonor
Nancy Churnin Yevgenia Nayberg A Queen to the Rescue: The Story of Henrietta Szold, Founder of HadassahNotable
Cynthia Levinson Evan Turk The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with ArtNotable
Lee Wind Paul O. Zelinsky Red and Green and Blue and WhiteNotable
Middle Grade Veera Hiranandani How to Find What You're Not Looking ForWinner
Eugene Yelchin Eugene Yelchin The Genius Under the Table: Growing up Behind the Iron CurtainHonor
Gordon Korman LinkedHonor
Chris Baron The Magical ImperfectNotable
Joanne Levy Sorry For Your LossNotable
Allison Marks and Wayne Marks Benny Feldman's All-Star Klezmer BandNotable
Young Adult Aden Polydoros The City Beautiful Winner
Leah Scheier The Last Words We SaidHonor
E. Lockhart Manuel Preitano Whistle: A New Gotham City HeroHonor
Hannah Reynolds The Summer of Lost LettersHonor
Judy Batalion The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos (Young Readers’ Edition)Notable
Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal Why We FlyNotable
Judith Pransky The Seventh HandmaidenNotable
Robbie Waisman and Susan McClelland Boy From BuchenwaldNotable
2021 [12] Picture Book Lesléa Newman Susan Gal Welcoming Elijah: a Passover Tale with a TailWinner
Mychal Copeland André Ceolin I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga BookHonor
Jane Yolen Khoa Le Miriam at the RiverHonor
Leslie Kimmelman Galia Bernstein The Eight Knights of HanukkahNotable
Linda Elovitz Marshall Lisa Anchin The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio VaccineNotable
Erica S. Perl Shahar Kober The Ninth Night of HanukkahNotable
Middle Grade M. Evan Wolkenstein Turtle BoyWinner
Anne Blankman The Blackbird GirlsHonor
Tziporah Cohen No VacancyHonor
Sofiya Pasternack Anya and the NightingaleHonor
Tammar Stein Beni's WarNotable
Deborah Hopkinson We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the KindertransportNotable
Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan A Place at the TableNotable
Ruth Behar Letters from CubaNotable
Young Adult Tyler Feder Tyler Feder Dancing at the Pity PartyWinner
Monica Hesse They Went LeftHonor
Rachel Lynn Solomon Today Tonight TomorrowNotable
Adam Eli The New Queer ConscienceNotable
Gavriel Savit The Way BackNotable
Liza Wiemer The AssignmentNotable
2020Picture Book Sue Macy Stacy Innerst The Book RescuerWinner
Lesléa Newman Amy June Bates Gittel's JourneyHonor
Debbie Levy Sonja Wimmer The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her MusicHonor
Deborah Blumenthal Masha D’yans Parrots, Pugs and Pixie Dust: A Book about Fashion Designer Judith LeiberNotable
Ann Malaspina Merrilee Liddiard A Scarf for KeikoNotable
Mara Rockliff Zosia Dzierzawska Doctor Esperanto and the Language of HopeNotable
Middle Grade R. J. Palacio R. J. Palacio White Bird: A Wonder StoryWinner
Sofiya Pasternack Anya and the DragonHonor
Andrew Maraniss Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's GermanyHonor
Kathy Kacer Masters of SilenceNotable
Edeet Ravel A Boy is Not a BirdNotable
Ferida Wolff Margeaux Lucas Rachel's RosesNotable
Young Adult Rachel DeWoskin Someday We Will FlyWinner
Victoria Ortiz Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and WorkHonor
Hannah Moskowitz Sick Kids in LoveHonor
Susan Kaplan Carlton In the Neighborhood of TrueNotable
Albert Marrin A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the HolocaustNotable
2019 [13] Younger Reader Emily Jenkins Paul O. Zelinsky All-of-a-Kind Family HanukkahWinner
Barb Rosenstock Mary GrandPré Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall's LifeHonor
Jane Breskin Zalben Mehrdokht Amini A Moon for Moe and MoHonor
Nancy Churnin James Rey Sanchez Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America SingNotable
Leslie Kimmelman David C. Gardner Write On, Irving Berlin!Notable
Gloria Spielman Inbal Gigi Bousidan French Toast SundaysNotable
Evelyn Zusman Kyrsten Brooker The Passover ParrotNotable
Older Reader Jonathan Auxier Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her MonsterWinner
Erica Perl All Three StoogesHonor
Elissa Brent Weissman The Length of a StringHonor
Anne Frank , adapted by Ari Folman David Polonsky Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic AdaptationNotable
Lisa Greenwald 12 Before 13Notable
Jacqueline Jules Kristina Swarner Light the Menorah: A Hanukkah HandbookNotable
Young Adult Vesper Stamper What the Night SingsWinner
Rachel Lynn Solomon You'll Miss Me When I'm GoneHonor
Jennifer Nielsen ResistanceNotable
2018Younger Reader Richard Michelson Karla Gudeon The Language of Angels: A Story About the Reinvention of HebrewWinner
Fawzia Gilani-Williams Chiara Fedele Yaffa and Fatima: Shalom, SalaamHonor
Jacqueline Jules Yevgenia Nayberg Drop by Drop: A Story of Rabbi AkivaHonor
David A. Adler Andre Ceolin Yom Kippur ShortstopNotable
Michael Herman Alida Massari Under the Sabbath LampNotable
Eric A. Kimmel Jim Starr Big Sam: A Rosh Hashanah Tall TaleNotable
Joanne Oppenheim Jon Davis The Knish War on Rivington StreetNotable
Jonah Winter Stacy Innerst Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. InequalityNotable
Older Reader Alan Gratz Refugee Winner
Susan Krawitz Viva Rose!Honor
Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang This is Just a TestHonor
Tammar Stein The Six Day HeroHonor
Michelle Bisson El Primo Ramón Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the HolocaustNotable
Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, adapted by Emil Sher The Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Hope and Survival during World War II: Young Readers EditionNotable
Sydelle Pearl WordwingsNotable
R. M. Romero The Dollmaker of KrakowNotable
Teen Reader Antonio Iturbe The Librarian of AuschwitzWinner
Kathy Kacer with Jordana Lebowitz To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen's Account of a War Criminal TrialHonor
Marianne Kaurin Almost Autumn Honor
Katherine Locke The Girl With the Red Balloon Honor
Viktor E. Frankl Man's Search for Meaning: Young Reader Edition Notable
Pamela L. Laskin Ronit & JamilNotable
L. B. Schulman Stolen SecretsNotable
2017Younger Reader Debbie Levy Elizabeth Baddeley I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her MarkWinner
Michelle Edwards G. Brian Karas A Hat for Mrs. Goldman: A Story About Knitting and LoveHonor
Richard Michelson Edel Rodriguez Fascinating: The Life of Leonard NimoyHonor
Barbara Bietz John Kanzler The Sundown Kid: A Southwestern ShabbatNotable
Linda Glaser Nuria Balaguer On One FootNotable
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Jessica Steinberg Amanda Pike Not This Turkey!Notable
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Joel Izzy Driedels on the BrainHonor
Andrea Davis Pinkney Johnson Steve and Lou Fancher A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy DayHonor
Rona Arato The Ship to Nowhere: On Board the ExodusNotable
Tilar J. Mazzeo , adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell Irena's Children: Young Readers Edition: A True Story of CourageNotable
Yona Zeldis McDonough The Bicycle SpyNotable
Susan Lynn Meyer Skating with the Statue of LibertyNotable
Teen Reader Gavriel Savit Anna and the Swallow Man Winner
2016Younger Reader Lesléa Newman Amy June Bates Ketzel, the Cat who Composed Winner
Heidi Smith Hyde Jing Jing Tsong Shanghai SukkahHonor
Leslie Kimmelman Talitha Shipman Everybody Says ShalomHonor
David A. Adler Jeffrey Ebbeler Hanukkah Cookies with SprinklesNotable
Jamie Korngold Julie Fortenberry Sadie and Ori and the Blue BlanketNotable
Isaac Bashevis Singer Suzanne Raphael Berkson The Parakeet Named DreidelNotable
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Angela Cerrito The Safest LieNotable
Irene Cohen-Janka Maurizio A. C. Quarello Mr. Doctor: Janusz Korczak and the Orphans of the Warsaw GhettoNotable
Cynthia Levinson Watch Out for Flying Kids: How Two Circuses, Two Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build CommunityNotable
J. Patrick Lewis Yevgenia Nayberg The Wren and the SparrowNotable
Rob Sharenow The Girl in the TorchNotable
Teen Reader Laura Amy Schlitz The Hired Girl Winner
Kathy Kacer Stones on a GraveHonor
Suzanne Nelson Serendipity's FootstepsHonor
Emily Franklin Last Night at the Circle CinemaNotable
Deborah Hopkinson Courage and Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II DenmarkNotable
Carol Solomon Imagining KatherineNotable
Annika Thor Deep SeaNotable
2015Younger Reader Jim Aylesworth Barbara McClintock My Grandfather's CoatWinner
Barbara Krasner Kelsey Garrity-Rile Goldie Takes a StandHonor
Jacqueline Jules Durga Yael Bernhard Never Say a Mean Word Again: A Tale from Medieval SpainHonor
Older Reader Loïc Dauvillier Marc Lizano and Greg Salsedo (colors)Hidden: A Child's Story of the HolocaustWinner
Donna Gephart Death by Toilet PaperHonor
Jennifer Elvgren Fabio Santomauro Whispering TownHonor
Teen Reader Donna Jo Napoli StormWinner
Lila Perl Isabel's WarHonor
Una LaMarche Like No OtherHonor
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Betty Rosenberg Perlov Cosei Kawa Rifka Takes a BowHonor
Renee Londner Martha Avilés Stones for GrandpaHonor
Older Reader Patricia Polacco Patricia Polacco The Blessing CupWinner
Leon Leyson , with Marilyn J. Harran and Elisabeth B. Leyson The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's listHonor
Carol Matas Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948Honor
Teen Reader Neal Bascomb The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious NaziWinner
Robyn Bavati Dancing in the DarkHonor
Aline Sax , translated by Laura Watkinson Caryl Strzelecki The War Within These WallsHonor
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Sheri Sinykin Kristina Swarner Zayde Comes to LiveHonor
Linda Leopold Strauss Alexi Natchev The Elijah Door: A Passover TaleHonor
Older Reader Louise Borden His Name Was Raoul WallenbergWinner
Ann Redisch Stampler Carol Liddiment The Wooden Sword: A Jewish Folktale from AfghanistanHonor
Teen Reader Deborah Heiligman IntentionsWinner
Doreen Rappaport Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the HolocaustHonor
2012Younger Reader Michael J. Rosen Robert Sabuda Chanukah LightsWinner
Susan Campbell Bartoletti Holly Meade Naamah and the Ark at NightHonor
Durga Yael Bernhard Durga Yael Bernhard Around the World in One ShabbatHonor
Jacqueline Jules Debbi Melmon Picnic at Camp ShalomNotable
Eric A. Kimmel Aaron Jansinski The Golem's LatkesNotable
Eric A. Kimmel Martina Peluso Joseph and the Sabbath FishNotable
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Richard Michelson Zachary Pullen Lipman Pike: America's First Home Run KingNotable
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Elka Weber Elisa Kleven One Little ChickenNotable
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Shelley Sommer Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg: Baseball PioneerHonor
Marcia Vaughan Ron Mazellan Irena's Jars of SecretsHonor
Avrohom Biderman The Mishkan: Its Structure and Its Sacred VesselsNotable
Albert Marrin Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its LegacyNotable
Yona Zeldis McDonough Heather Maione The Cats in the Doll ShopNotable
Erica S. Perl When Life Gives You O.J.Notable
Susan Goldman Rubin Bill Farnsworth Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw GhettoNotable
Ruth Thomson Terezin: Voices from the HolocaustNotable
Teen Reader Robert Sharenow The Berlin Boxing ClubWinner
Morris Gleitzman ThenHonor
Shirley Reva Vernick The Blood LieHonor
Paul B. Janeczko Requiem: Poems of the Terezin GhettoNotable
Amy Fellner Dominy OyMGNotable
2011Younger Reader Howard Schwartz Kristina Swarner Gathering SparksWinner
Sarah Gershman Kristina Swarner Modeh Ani: A Good Morning BookHonor
Linda Glaser Claire Nivola Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of LibertyHonor
Barbara Diamond Goldin Jaime Zollars Cakes and Miracles: A Purim TaleHonor
Deborah Bodin Cohen Shahar Kober Engineer Air and the Sukkah ExpressNotable
Heidi Smith Hyde Johanna van der Sterre Feivel's Flying HorsesNotable
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Daniel Pinkwater Jill Pinkwater Beautiful Yetta, the Yiddish ChickenNotable
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Sharon Robinson E. B. Lewis Jackie's GiftNotable
Robert Rubenstein Woody Miller Zishe the Strong ManNotable
Rebeka Simhaee Michael Weber Sara Finds a MitzvaNotable
Laurel Snyder David Goldin Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to be KosherNotable
Ann Redisch Stampler Eugene Yelchin The Rooster Prince of BreslovNotable
Doba Rivka Weber Phyllis Saroff Dear TreeNotable
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Carla Jablonski Leland Purvis ResistanceHonor
Evelyn Krieger One Is Not a Lonely NumberHonor
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Trisha Marx Cindy Karp Sharing Our Homeland: Palestinian and Jewish Children at Summer Peace CampNotable
Sylvia Rouss Martha Rast Mitzvah the MuttNotable
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Eishes Chayil HushHonor
Morris Gleitzman OnceHonor
Sarah Darer Littman Life, AfterHonor
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Elka Weber Adam Gustavson Yankee at the SederHonor
Jonah Winter André Carrilho You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?Honor
Michelle Shapiro Abraham Janice Fried Where Is Grandpa Dennis?Notable
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Sylvia Weil Elvina's MirrorNotable
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Selma Kritzer Silverberg Naomi's SongHonor
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Eric Heuvel A Family Secret/The SearchNotable
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Eva Wiseman PuppetNotable
Kim Ablon Whitney The Other Half of LifeNotable
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Jacqueline Jules Natascia Ugliano Sarah LaughsHonor
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Judith Z. Abrams The Secret World of KabbalahNotable
Sid Fleischman Escape! The Story of the Great HoudiniNotable
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Marlee Pinsker François Thisdale In the Days of Sand and StarsNotable
Susan Goldman Rubin with Ela Weissberger The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in TerezinNotable
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Teen Reader Markus Zusak The Book Thief Winner
Alice Hoffman IncantationHonor
Dana Reinhardt A Brief Chapter in My Impossible LifeHonor
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Esme Raji Codell LeUyen Pham Hanukkah, Shmanukkah!Notable
Deborah Bodin Cohen Melanie W. Hall Seventh Day: A Shabbat StoryNotable
Laurie Jacobs Shelly Ephraim A Box of CandlesNotable
Latifa Berry Kropf Tod Cohen It's Purim Time!Notable
Lawrence Kushner and Gary D. Schmidt Matthew J. Baek In God's HandsNotable
Michelle Markel Emily Lisker Dreamer from the Village: The Story of Marc ChagallNotable
Mark Podwal Mark Podwal Jerusalem Sky: Stars, Crosses, and CrescentsNotable
Matthew Reinhart Matthew Reinhart The ArkNotable
Howard Schwartz Kristina Swarner Before You Were BornNotable
Lisa Shulman Rosanne Litzinger The Matzoh Ball BoyNotable
Edie Stoltz Zolkower Edie Stoltz Zolkower It's Tu B'ShevatNotable
Older Reader Sarah Darer Littman Confessions of a Closet CatholicWinner
Esther Nisenthal Krinitz and Bernice Steinhardt Memories of SurvivalHonor
Donna Jo Napoli The King of Mulberry StreetHonor
Holly-Jane Rahlens Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and MeHonor
Uri Shulevitz Uri Shulevitz The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth CenturyHonor
Penina Adelman , Ali Feldman and Shulamit Reinharz The JGirls' Guide: The Young Jewish Woman's Handbook for Coming of AgeNotable
Robert J. Avrech The Hebrew Kid and the Apache MaidenNotable
Susan Campbell Bartoletti Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's ShadowNotable
Rebecca Tova Ben-Zvi Susanna Natti Four Sides, Eight Nights: A New Spin on HanukkahNotable
Marfe Ferguson Delano Genius: A Photobiography of Albert EinsteinNotable
Linda Glaser Bridge to AmericaNotable
Howard Greenfeld A Promise Fulfilled: Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weitzmann, and David Ben-Gurion, and the Creation of the State of IsraelNotable
Kathryn Lasky Broken SoupNotable
Isaac Millman Hidden ChildNotable
June Levitt Nislick Zayda Was a CowboyNotable
Josephine Poole Angela Barrett Anne FrankNotable
Doreen Rappaport Emily Arnold McCully The Secret SederNotable
Susan Goldman Rubin Bill Farnsworth The Flag with Fifty-Six StarsNotable
Marisabina Russo Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War IINotable
Marilyn Sachs Lost in AmericaNotable
Tammar Stein Light YearsNotable
Eve Tal Double Crossing: A Jewish Immigration StoryNotable
Valérie Zenatti , translated by Adriana Hunter When I Was a Soldier: A MemoirNotable
2005Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication.
2004Younger Reader Jean Marzollo Jean Marzollo Daniel in the Lions’ DenHonor
Leone Adelson Naomi Howland The Mystery Bear: A Purim StoryNotable
Michelle Edwards Stacey Schuett Papa's LatkesNotable
Linda Glaser Nancy Cote Mrs. Greenberg's Messy HanukkahNotable
Lawrence A. Hoffman and Ron Wolfson Bill Aron What You Will See Inside a SynagogueNotable
Jenny Koralek Pauline Baynes The Coat of Many ColorsNotable
Latifa Berry Kropf Tod Cohen It's Sukkah Time!Notable
Jean Marzollo Jean Marzollo David and GoliathNotable
Jean Marzollo Jean Marzollo Jonah and the Whale (and the Worm)Notable
Jean Marzollo Jean Marzollo Miriam and Her Brother MosesNotable
Rahel Musleah Judy Jarrett Apples and Pomegranates: A Family Seder for Rosh HashanahNotable
Mindy Avra Portnoy Shelly O. Haas Where Do People Go When They Die?Notable
Older Reader Pnina Moed Kass Real TimeWinner
David Chotjewitz , translated by Doris Orgel Daniel, Half-Human Honor
Anne Dublin Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do EverythingHonor
Karen Hesse Wendy WatsonThe Cats in Krasinski SquareHonor
Eric A. Kimmel Wonders and Miracles: A Passover CompanionHonor
Sylvie Weil , translated by Gillian Rosner My Guardian AngelHonor
David A. Adler The Kids' Catalog of HanukkahNotable
Hagit Allon and Lena Zehavi Yossi Abulafia The Mystery of the Dead Sea ScrollsNotable
Bruce Feiler Sasha Meret Walking the Bible: An Illustrated Journey for KidsNotable
Susan Goldman Rubin L'Chaim: to Jewish life in AmericaNotable
Margaret J. Goldstein Israel in PicturesNotable
David Grossman , translated by Betsy Rosenberg DuelNotable
Tony Johnston Ron Mazellan The HarmonicaNotable
Kathy Kacer The Underground ReportersNotable
Kathy Walden Kaplan The Dog of KnotsNotable
Gail Langer Karwoski Robert Papp Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906Notable
Carol Matas Rosie in Los Angeles: Action!Notable
Sharon E. McKay EstherNotable
Stephanie McPherson Albert EinsteinNotable
Moshe Moscowitz David Sokoloff The Queen of PersiaNotable
M.E. Rabb Missing Persons: The Chocolate LoverNotable
Peter W. Schroeder and Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand Six Million Paper ClipsNotable
Josepha Sherman Your Travel Guide to Ancient IsraelNotable
Barbara Sofer Ilan Ramon: Israel's Space HeroNotable
Devra Newberger Speregen Ilan Ramon: Jewish StarNotable
Judy Steinberg and Barbara Tabs Bill Hauser Matzah Meals: A Passover Cookbook for Kids (revised edition)Notable
2003Younger Reader Aubrey Davis Dušan Petričić Bagels from BennyWinner
Jenny Koralek Pauline Baynes The Moses BasketHonor
Burt E. Schuman Rosalind Charney Kaye Chanukah on the PrairieHonor
Erica Silverman Matthew Trueman When the Chickens Went on Strike: A Rosh Hashanah TaleHonor
Julie Baer Julie Baer I Only Like What I LikeHonor
Esther Silverstein Blanc and Godeane Eagle Tennessee Dixon Long Johns for a Small ChickenHonor
Margie Blumberg Laurie McGaw Avram's GiftHonor
Mark Podwal Mark Podwal A Sweet Year: A Taste of the Jewish HolidaysHonor
Dina Rosenfeld Tova Leff Five Alive! My Yom Tov Five SensesHonor
Sylvia Rouss Nancy Oppenheimer Tali's Jerusalem ScrapbookHonor
Pete Seeger Wendy Anderson Halperin Turn, Turn, TurnHonor
Emily Sper Emily Sper The Passover SederHonor
Stephanie Spinner Jill McElmurry It's a Miracle! A Hanukkah StorybookHonor
Ann Redisch Stampler Jacqueline M. Cohen Something for NothingHonor
Richard Ungar Richard Ungar Rachel's GiftHonor
Older Reader Nancy Patz Who Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat?Winner
Marian Broida Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors: An Activity GuideHonor
Edward Feinstein Tough Questions Jews Ask: A Young Adult's Guide to Building a Jewish LifeHonor
Tracy Mack BirdlandHonor
Anna Claybourne Golda MeirNotable
Adèle Geras Anita Lobel My Grandmother's Stories: A Collection of Jewish FolktalesNotable
Karen Hesse Brian Pinkney The Stone Lamp: Eight Stories of Hanukkah through HistoryNotable
Deborah Hopkinson Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New YorkNotable
Sonia Levitin Room in the HeartNotable
Carol Matas Rosie in New York City: Gotcha!Notable
Gloria Miklowitz The Enemy Has a FaceNotable
Or Rose Abraham Joshua Heschel: Man of Spirit, Man of ActionNotable
Liz Sonneborn Murder at the 1972 Olympics in MunichNotable
Jerry Spinelli MilkweedNotable
Tanya Stone Ilan Ramon: Israel's First AstronautNotable
Luba Tryszynska-Frederick , as told to Michelle McCann Ann Marshall Luba: The Angel of Bergen-BelsenNotable
Jude Welton Marc ChagallNotable
2002Younger Reader Esther Hershenhorn Roseanne Litzinger Chicken Soup by HeartWinner
Jerry Pinkney Jerry Pinkney Noah's ArkHonor
Sylvia Rouss Katherine Janus Kahn Sammy Spider's First Trip to Israel: A Book about the Five SensesHonor
Jane Breskin Zalben Jane Breskin Zalben Pearl's Passover: A Family Celebration through Stories, Recipes, Crafts, And SongsHonor
Barbara Diamond Goldin Laura Sucher Night Lights: A Sukkot StoryNotable
Rhonda Gowler Greene Anne Wilson The Beautiful World That God MadeNotable
Naomi Howland Naomi Howland Matzah ManNotable
Latifa Berry Kropf Tod Rosen It's Challah Time!Notable
Karla Kuskin Michael Grejniec The Animals and the ArkNotable
Lesléa Newman Krysten Brooker Runaway DreidelNotable
Tony Kushner Maurice Sendak Brundibar Notable
Rochel Groner Vorst Elizabeth Victor-Elsby The Sukkah That I BuiltNotable
Anne Wilson Anne Wilson Noah's ArkNotable
Older Reader Karen Levine Hana's SuitcaseWinner
Eve Bunting K. Wendy Popp One CandleHonor
Esther Hautzig Beth Peck A Picture of GrandmotherHonor
Barbara Rogasky Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust, Revised and ExpandedHonor
Chaya Burstein The Kids' Cartoon BibleNotable
Miriam Chaikin Stephen Fieser Alexandra's Scroll: The Story of the First HanukkahNotable
Miriam Chaikin Alexander Koshkin Angels Sweep the Desert Floor: Bible Legends about Moses in the WildernessNotable
Andrea Cheng MarikaNotable
Ilene Cooper Elivia Savadier Jewish Holidays All Year Round: A Family TreasuryNotable
Norman H. Finkelstein Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish-American ExperienceNotable
Marc Gellman Harry Bliss And God Cried, Too: A Kid's Book About Healing and HopeNotable
James C. Giblin The Life and Death of Adolf HitlerNotable
Clive A. Lawton Auschwitz: The Story of a Nazi Death CampNotable
Carol Ann Lee Anne Frank's Story: Her Life Retold for ChildrenNotable
Barbara Rogasky SmokeNotable
Carol Matas Sparks Fly UpwardNotable
Richard Michelson Neil Waldman Too Young for YiddishNotable
Kenneth Roseman Jeremiah's Promise: An Adventure in Modern IsraelNotable
Howard Schwartz Stephen Fieser Invisible Kingdoms: Jewish Tales of Angels, Spirits, and DemonsNotable
Eva Vogiel Facing the MusicNotable
Neil Waldman Neil Waldman The Promised Land: The Birth of the Jewish PeopleNotable
Irene Watts Finding Sophie: A Search for Belonging in Postwar BritainNotable
2001Younger Reader Elsa Okon Rael Maryann Kovalski Rivka's First ThanksgivingWinner
Sue Alexander Leonid Gore Behold the TreesNotable
Matt Biers-Ariel Esti Silverberg-Kiss Solomon and the TreesNotable
Mira Pollak Brichto Selina Alko The God around Us, Volume 2: The Valley of BlessingsNotable
Chaya Burstein Judy Hanks-Henn Hanukkah Cat (Revised Edition)Notable
Deborah da Costa Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu Snow in JerusalemNotable
Renate Dollinger Renate Dollinger The Rabbi Who FlewNotable
Cathy Goldman Fishman Melanie W. Hall On ShabbatNotable
Barbara Diamond Goldin Anik McGrory A Mountain of BlintzesNotable
Amy Hest Claire Nivola The Friday Nights of NanaNotable
Jacqueline Jules Katherine Janus Kahn The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur StoryNotable
Eric A. Kimmel Jon Goodell Zigazak! A Magical Hanukkah NightNotable
Sandy Sasso Joani Keller Rothenberg Cain and Abel: Finding the Fruits of PeaceNotable
Lesley Simpson Nicole in den Bosch The Shabbat BoxNotable
Myron Uhlberg Sonja Lamut Lemuel, the FoolNotable
Richard Ungar Rachel Captures the MoonNotable
Older Reader Catherine Reef Sigmund Freud: Pioneer of the MindWinner
Martha Attema Daughter of LightNotable
Toby Axelrod Hans and Sophie Scholl: German Resisters of the White RoseNotable
Harriet Feder Death on Sacred GroundNotable
Kathy Kacer Clara's WarNotable
Teri Kanefield Rivka's WayNotable
Mark Kornblatt Understanding BuddyNotable
Amy Koss Stolen WordsNotable
Fran Manushkin Uri Shulevitz Daughter of Fire: Heroines of the BibleNotable
Carol Matas The War WithinNotable
Gloria Miklowitz Secrets in the House of DelgadoNotable
Connie Steiner Denis Rodier Shoes for AmelieNotable
Eva Vogiel Friend of Foe?Notable
Andrea Warren Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death CampsNotable
Ilse Weber , translated by Ruth and Hans FisherMendel Rosenbusch: Tales for Jewish ChildrenNotable
Jane Breskin Zalben Donna Diamond The Magic Menorah: A Modern Chanukah TaleNotable
Teen Reader Howard Greenfield After the HolocaustNotable
Gary D. Schmidt Mara's Stories: Glimmers in the DarkNotable
2000Younger Reader Eric A. Kimmel Jon J. Muth Gershon's Monster: A Story for the Jewish New YearWinner
Cary Fagan Regolo Ricci The Market WeddingHonor
Sheldon Oberman Neil Waldman The Wisdom Bird: A Tale of Solomon and ShebaHonor
Linda Jacobs Altman Cornelius Van Wright and Ting-Hwa Hu The Legend of Freedom HillNotable
Cathy Goldman Fishman Melanie W. Hall On PurimNotable
Leslie Kimmelman Ora Eitan Dance, Sing, RememberNotable
Fran Manushkin Rosalind Charney Kaye Come, Let Us Be Joyful: The Story of Hava NagilaNotable
Laura Kraus Melmed David Slonim Moishe's MiracleNotable
Leah Shollar Shoshana Mekibel Thread of Kindness: A Tzedaka StoryNotable
Older Reader Ida Vos The Key Is LostWinner
Amy Hest Sonja Lamut Love You, SoldierHonor
Susan Goldman Rubin Neil Waldman Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of TerezinHonor
Gabriella Carmi , translated by Yael Lotan Samir and YonatanNotable
Carmen Agra Deedy Henry Sorensen The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of DenmarkNotable
Arlene B. Hirschfelder Photo Odyssey: Solomon Carvalho's Remarkable Western Adventure, 1853-1854Notable
Ann Isaacs Torn ThreadNotable
Nina Jaffe Kelly Stribling Sutherland Tales for the Seventh DayNotable
Eric A. Kimmel Mordicai Gerstein The Jar of Fools: Eight Hanukkah Stories from Chelm Notable
Julius Lester Pharaoh's DaughterNotable
Ellen Levine Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the JewsNotable
Marissa Moss Marissa Moss Hannah's Journal: The Story of an Immigrant GirlNotable
Rahel Musleah Louise August Why on This Night? A Passover Haggadah for Family CelebrationNotable
Patricia Polacco Patricia Polacco The ButterflyNotable
Rosalind Schanzer Escaping to America: A True StoryNotable
Howard Schwartz Monique Passicot The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of MagicNotable
Frank Dabba Smith Mendel Grossman My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz GhettoNotable
Marilyn Taylor Faraway HomeNotable
Eva Vogiel Invisible ChainsNotable
Irene Watts Remember Me: A Search for Refuge in Wartime BritainNotable
1999Younger Reader Maxine Rose Schur Kimberley Bulcken Root The Peddler's GiftWinner
Mordicai Gerstein Mordicai Gerstein Noah and the Great FloodHonor
Simms Taback Simms Taback Joseph Had a Little OvercoatHonor
Susan Wilkowski Judith Friedman Baby's BrisHonor
Joel Anderson Abe Goolsby David and the Trash-Talkin' Giant: Mr. Grungy's Seek and Find Bible StoriesNotable
Mordicai Gerstein Mordicai Gerstein Queen Esther, the Morning StarNotable
Charlotte Herman Katya Krenina How Yussel Caught the Gefilte Fish: A Shabbos StoryNotable
Ziporah Hildebrandt Robin Roraback This Is Our SederNotable
Shirley Hughes Shirley Hughes The Lion and the UnicornNotable
Miriam Nerlove Miriam Nerlove The Ten Commandments for Jewish ChildrenNotable
Joanne Rocklin Catherine O'Neil The Very Best Hanukkah GiftNotable
Joan Rothenberg Joan Rothenberg Matzah Ball SoupNotable
Sandy Sasso Karyn Kunz Finney For Heaven's SakeNotable
Erica Silverman Susan Gaber Raisel's RiddleNotable
Rosemary Wells Dann Adreasen Streets of GoldNotable
Elie Wiesel Mark Podwal King Solomon and His Magic RingNotable
Elvira Woodruff Michael Dooling The Memory CoatNotable
Older Reader Sybil Rosen The Speed of LightWinner
Barbara Diamond Goldin Jerry Pinkney Journeys with ElijahHonor
Julius Lester Emily Lisker When The Beginning Began: Stories About God, the Creatures and UsHonor
Vera Propp When the Soldiers Were GoneHonor
Sandy Asher , editorWith All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories about Growing Up JewishNotable
Miriam Bat Ami Two Suns in the SkyNotable
Livia Bitton-Jackson My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love after AuschwitzNotable
Sandra Giddens Escape: Teens Who Escaped the Holocaust to FreedomNotable
Beatrice Gormley MiriamNotable
Anna Levine Running on EggsNotable
Sonia Levitin The CureNotable
Mikki Machlin My Name Is Not GussieNotable
Gregory Maguire The Good LiarNotable
Carol Matas In My Enemy's HouseNotable
Lois Metzger Missing GirlsNotable
Howard Schwartz & Barbara Rush, editors Michael Iofin A Coat for the Moon and Other Jewish TalesNotable
John Severance Einstein: Visionary ScientistNotable
Marc Talbert Star of LuísNotable
1998Younger Reader Marci Stillerman Pesach Gerber Nine SpoonsWinner
Rita Golden Gelman Frane Lessac Queen Esther Saves Her PeopleHonor
Francine Prose Mark Podwal You Never Know: A Legend of the Lamed-VavniksHonor
Jeffrey Schrier Jeffrey Schrier On the Wings of Eagles: An Ethiopian Boy's StoryHonor
Bruce Siegel Shelly O. Haas The Magic of Kol NidreHonor
S. Y. Agnon , translated by Robert Friend Arieh Zeldich Agnon's Alef Bet: Poems by S. Y. AgnonNotable
Carol Bierman , with Barbara Hehner Laurie McGaw Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to AmericaNotable
Nina Jaffe Louise August The Way Meat Loves SaltNotable
Heinz Janisch , translated by Rosemary Lanning Lisbeth Zwerger Noah's ArkNotable
Jacqueline Jules Katherine Janus Kahn Once Upon a ShabbosNotable
William Kaplan , with Shelley Tanaka Stephen TaylorOne More BorderNotable
Eric A. Kimmel Barbara McClintock When Mindy Saved HanukkahNotable
Fran Manushkin Bob Dacey Miriam's CupNotable
Mark Podwal Mark Podwal The Menorah StoryNotable
Joan Betty Stuchner Richard Row The Kugel Valley Klezmer BandNotable
Nancy Sohn Swartz Melanie W. Hall In Our Image: God's First CreaturesNotable
Edith Tarbescu Lydia Dabcovich Annushka's VoyageNotable
Older Reader Donna Jo Napoli Stones in WaterWinner
Dede Fox Ducharme The Treasure in the Tiny Blue TinHonor
Sonia Levitin The Singing MountainHonor
Anita Lobel No Pretty Pictures: A Child of WarHonor
Miriam Chaikin David Frampton Clouds of GloryNotable
Johanna Hurwitz Mary Azarian Faraway SummerNotable
Eric A. Kimmel Emily Lisker A Hanukkah TreasuryNotable
Jane Kurtz The Storyteller's BeadsNotable
Kathryn Lasky Dreams of the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, A Jewish Immigrant GirlNotable
Carol Matas Greater Than AngelsNotable
Maida Silverman Susan Avishai Israel: The Founding of a Modern NationNotable
Neil Waldman MasadaNotable
Teen Reader Edith Baer Walk the Dark StreetsNotable
Leonard Everett Fisher To Bigotry No Sanction: The Story of the Oldest Synagogue in AmericaNotable
Gloria Miklowitz Masada: The Last FortressNotable
Schoschana Rabinovici , translated by James Skofield Thanks to My MotherNotable
Kathryn Winter KatarinaNotable
1997Younger Reader Elsa Okon Rael Marjorie Priceman When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge StreetWinner
Amy Hest P.J. Lynch When Jessie Came Across the SeaHonor
Cathy Goldberg Fishman Melanie W. Hall On PassoverNotable
Cathy Goldberg Fishman Melanie W. Hall On Rosh Hashanah and Yom KippurNotable
Mordicai Gerstein Mordicai Gerstein Jonah and the Two Great FishNotable
Linda Glaser Nancy Cote The Borrowed Hanukkah LatkesNotable
Amy Hest P.J. Lynch WhenNotable
Sue Kassirer Danuta Jarecka Joseph and His Coat of Many ColorsNotable
Sarah Marwil Lamstein Cecily Lang Annie's ShabbatNotable
Kathryn Lasky Kevin Hawkes Marven of the Great North WoodsNotable
J. Patrick Lewis Reg Cartwright The Boat of Many RoomsNotable
Claire Nivola Claire Nivola ElisabethNotable
Sheldon Oberman Neil Waldman By the Hanukkah LightNotable
Francine Prose Mark Podwal The Angel's Mistake: Stories of Chelm Notable
Roni Schotter Marilyn Hafner Purim PlayNotable
Dorrith M. Sim Gerald Fitzgerald In My PocketNotable
Neil Waldman Neil Waldman The Never-Ending GreennessNotable
Neil Waldman Neil Waldman The Two Brothers: A Legend of JerusalemNotable
Brian Wildsmith Brian Wildsmith JosephNotable
Jane Breskin Zalben Jane Breskin Zalben Pearl's Marigolds for GrandpaNotable
Older Reader Nina Jaffe Elivia Savadier The Mysterious Visitor: Stories of the Prophet ElijahWinner
Livia Bitton-Jackson I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the HolocaustHonor
Lee Cha'ah Batterman James Wattling Two Cents and a Milk BottleNotable
Ilene Cooper John Thompson The Dead Sea ScrollsNotable
Kirk Douglas The Broken Mirror: A NovellaNotable
Alison Leslie Gold Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood FriendNotable
Barbara Diamond Goldin Elaine Greenstein While the Candles Burn: Eight Stories for HanukkahNotable
Gloria Kamen Hidden Music: The Life of Fanny MendelssohnNotable
Jan Mark David Parkin God's Story: How God Made MankindNotable
Carol Matas The GardenNotable
Ken Mochizuki Dom Lee Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara StoryNotable
Steven Schnur Meryl Treatner The Koufax DilemmaNotable
Faye Silton Of Heroes, Hooks, and HeirloomsNotable
Eva Wiseman A Place Not HomeNotable
Teen Reader Norman H. Finkelstein Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights StruggleNotable
Maxine Rose Schur Sacred ShadowsNotable
1996Younger Reader Barbara Sofer Shalom, Haver: Goodbye, FriendWinner
Francine Prose Mark Podwal Dybbuk: A Story Made in HeavenHonor
Howard Bogot Norman Gorbaty Becky and Benny Thank GodNotable
Sterna Citron Igor Eydel Hirsh's Secret: A Baal Shem Tov StoryNotable
Gary Clement Gary Clement Just Stay PutNotable
Aubrey Davis Dušan Petričić Bone Button BorschtNotable
Katherine Paterson Alexander Koshkin The Angel and the DonkeyNotable
Sheryl Prenzlau Zely Smelkhov The Jewish Children's Bible: GenesisNotable
Older Reader Maxine Rose Schur Brian Pinkney When I Left My VillageWinner
Diane Wolkstein Juan Wijngaard Esther's StoryHonor
Marc Gellman Debbie Tilley God's Mailbox: More Stories about Stories in the BibleNotable
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith Lawrence Migdale Celebrating HanukkahNotable
Hanneke Ippisch SkyNotable
Sharon Kirsch Fitting InNotable
Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust StoryNotable
Abraham Rabinovich Teddy Kollek: Builder of JerusalemNotable
Barbara Rogasky Trina Schart Hyman The GolemNotable
Howard Schwartz & Barbara Rush, editors Stephen Fieser The Wonder Child and Other Jewish Fairy TalesNotable
Sheila Segal Women of Valor: Stories of Great Jewish Women Who Helped Shape the Twentieth CenturyNotable
Ellen Stern Elie Wiesel: A Voice for HumanityNotable
Dvora Waysman Back of Beyond: A Bar Mitzvah JourneyNotable
David Wisniewski David Wisniewski GolemNotable
Jane Breskin Zalben Unfinished DreamsNotable
Teen Reader Tricia Andryszewski The Amazing Life of Moe Berg: Catcher, Scholar, SpyNotable
Vivian Grey Moe Berg: The Spy Behind Home PlateNotable
Gerald Hausman Night FlightNotable
Hadley Irwin Sarah with an HNotable
Carol Matas After the WarNotable
Carolyn Meyer Gideon's PeopleNotable
Laura E. Williams Behind the Bedroom WallNotable
1995Younger Reader Jo Hoestlandt Johanna Kang Star of Fear, Star of HopeWinner
Janice Cohn Bill Farnsworth The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought HateHonor
David A. Adler Lloyd Bloom One Yellow DaffodilNotable
Feinberg Miriam Karen Ostrove A Yom Kippur ThinkNotable
Barbara Diamond Goldin Louise August Night Lights: A Sukkot StoryNotable
Nechama Liss-Levinson Nechama Liss-Levinson When a Grandparent DiesNotable
Sheila MacGill-Callahan Stephen T. Johnson When Solomon Was KingNotable
Fran Manushkin Ned Bittinger The Matzah That Papa Brought Home Notable
Fran Manushkin Jacqueline Chwast Starlight and CandlesNotable
Steve Sanfield Emily Lisker Strudel, Strudel, StrudelNotable
Steven Schnur Stephen T. Johnson The Tie Man's Miracle: A Chanukkah TaleNotable
Roni Schotter Marilyn Hafner Passover MagicNotable
Neil Waldman Neil Waldman The Golden City: Jerusalem's 3000 YearsNotable
Older Reader Ida Vos Dancing on the Bridge of AvignonWinner
Carolyn Meyer Drummers of JerichoHonor
David A. Adler Karen Ritz Child of the Warsaw GhettoNotable
Molly Cone Roy Doty Listen to the TreesNotable
Dean Engel and Florence Freedman Ezra Jack Keats: A Biography with IllustrationsNotable
Marc Gellman and Thomas Hartman Joseph A. Smith How Do You Spell God?: Answers to the Big Questions from Around the WorldNotable
Barbara Diamond Goldin Erika Weihs Bat MitzvahNotable
Eric A. Kimmel Trina Schart Hyman The Adventures of Hershel of OstropolNotable
Eric A. Kimmel Erika Weihs Bar MitzvahNotable
Stephanie McPherson Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert EinsteinNotable
Lila Perl Donna Ruff Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Life of a StorytellerNotable
Mark Podwal Mark Podwal Golem: A Giant Made of MudNotable
Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell, editorsBearing Witness: Stories of the HolocaustNotable
Deborah Lee Rose Greg Shed The Rose HorseNotable
Nava Semel , translated by Hillel Halkin Flying LessonsNotable
Devra Speregen Yoni Netanyahu: Commando at EntebbeNotable
Gail B. Stewart Life in the Warsaw GhettoNotable
Xin Xu , with Beverly Friend Ting Cheng Legends of the Chinese Jews of KaifengNotable
Jane Yolen Jean Gralley And Twelve Chinese AcrobatsNotable
Teen Reader Gila Almagor , translated by Hillel Schenker Under the Domim TreeNotable
Elanor Ayer , et al.Parallel JourneysNotable
Lynne Reid Banks Broken BridgeNotable
Hazel Krantz Look to the HillsNotable
Christa Laird But Can the Phoenix Sing?Notable
Isobel V. Morin Days of Judgment: The World War II War Crimes TrialsNotable
Lesléa Newman Fat Chance Notable
Uri Orlev , translated by Hillel Halkin The Lady with the HatNotable
1994Younger Reader Sheldon Oberman Ted Lewin The Always Prayer ShawlWinner
Maxine Schur Brian Pinkney Day of Delight: A Jewish Sabbath in EthiopiaHonor
Diana Conway Shelly O. Haas Northern Lights: A Hanukkah StoryNotable
Arthur Geisert Arthur Geisert After the FloodNotable
Patricia Lakin Ted Rand Don't ForgetNotable
Patricia Polacco Patricia Polacco Tikvah Means HopeNotable
Mindy Avra Portnoy Katherine Janus Kahn Matzah BallNotable
Dalia Hardof Renberg , (adapter) Ruth Heller King Solomon and the BeeNotable
Older Reader Steven Schnur Herbert Tauss The Shadow ChildrenWinner
Jacqueline Dembar Greene One Foot AshoreHonor
Karen Ackerman Elizabeth Sayles The Night CrossingNotable
David A. Adler Karen Ritz Hilde and Eli: Children of the HolocaustNotable
Susan D. Bachrach Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the HolocaustNotable
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz The Old Brown SuitcaseNotable
Barbara Cohen Jan Naimo Jones Make a Wish MollyNotable
Barry Cytron and Phyllis Cytron Myriam Mendilow, Mother of JerusalemNotable
Malka Drucker Nancy Patz The Family Treasury of Jewish HolidaysNotable
Barbara Diamond Goldin Neil Waldman The Passover Journey: A Seder CompanionNotable
Jacqueline Jules Michael Cressy Grey Striped Shirt: How Grandma and Grandpa Survived the HolocaustNotable
Sonia Levitin Escape from EgyptNotable
1993Younger Reader Nina Jaffe Elivia Savadier The Uninvited GuestWinner
Laurie Dolphin Ben Dolphin Neve Shalom Wahat Al-Salam: Oasis of PeaceHonor
David Techner and Judith Techner Joel Iskowitz A Candle for GrandpaHonor
Miriam Aroner Shelly O. Haas The Kingdom of the Singing BirdsNotable
Aliana Brodmann Anthony Carnabuci The GiftNotable
Michelle Edwards Michelle Edwards Blessed Are YouNotable
Leonard Everett Fisher Leonard Everett Fisher David and GoliathNotable
Barbara Diamond Goldin Robert Andrew Parker The Magician's VisitNotable
Carol Snyder Beth Glick God Must Like Cookies, TooNotable
Tobi Tobias Nola Langer Malone Pot LuckNotable
Sarah Waldman Neil Waldman Light: The First Seven DaysNotable
Wendy Wax (compiler) John Speirs Hanukkah, Oh HanukkahNotable
Nicki Weiss Nicki Weiss Stone MenNotable
Older Reader Carol Matas Sworn EnemiesWinner
Sharon Linnea Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Stopped DeathHonor
Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin Jacob's RescueNotable
Sonia Levitin The Golem and the Dragon GirlNotable
Nancy Smiler Levinson Beth Peck Sweet Notes, Sour NotesNotable
Uri Orlev , translated by Hillel Halkin Lydia, Queen of PalestineNotable
Danny Siegel Tell Me a MitzvahNotable
Nelly S. Toll Behind the Secret WindowNotable
Rudd Van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven, translated by Tony Langham and Plym Peters Anne Frank: Beyond the DiaryNotable
Ida Vos Anna is Still HereNotable
Karen Zeinert The Warsaw Ghetto UprisingNotable
1992Younger Reader Phoebe Gilman Phoebe Gilman Something from NothingWinner
Ellie Gellman Judith Friedman Jeremy's DreidelHonor
Esther Hautzig Donna Diamond RichesHonor
Eric A. Kimmel Leonard Everett Fisher The Spotted Pony: A Collection of Hanukkah StoriesHonor
Richard Rosenblum Richard Rosenblum Journey to the Golden LandHonor
Howard Schwartz & Barbara Rush Stephen Fieser The Sabbath Lion: A Jewish Folktale from AlgeriaHonor
Colin T. Eisler Jerry Pinkney David's Songs: His Psalms and Their StoryNotable
Mira Jaffe Louise August In the Month of Kislev: A Story of HanukkahNotable
Patricia Polacco Patricia Polacco Mrs. Katz and TushNotable
Michael J. Rosen Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and ChristmasNotable
Sheila Segal Joel Iskowitz Joshua's DreamNotable
Older Reader Karen Hesse Letters from RifkaWinner
Robert Cormier Tunes for Bears to Dance toHonor
Eilís Dillon Children of BachNotable
Robert Lehrman The Store That Mama BuiltNotable
Joan Lowery Nixon Ellis Island: Land of HopeNotable
Seymour Rossel The Holocaust: The World and the Jews, 1933-1945Notable
Phyllis Shalant Shalom, Geneva PeaceNotable
1991Younger Reader Sandy Lanton Shelly O. Haas Daddy's ChairWinner
Barbara Diamond Goldin Erika Weihs Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale Winner
Sholem Aleichem , selected and translated by Aliza Shevrin Toby Gowing Around the Table: Family Stories of Sholom AleichemNotable
Michelle Edwards Michelle Edwards A Baker's PortraitNotable
Miriam Feinberg Marlene L. Ruthen Just Enough RoomNotable
Arthur A. Levine James E. Ransome All the Lights of the NightNotable
Shulamith Levey Oppenheim Joanna Yardley AppleblossomNotable
Gloria Teles Pushker Judith Hierstein Toby Belfer Never Had a Christmas TreeNotable
Lillian Hammer Ross Mary MorganBuba Leah and Her Paper ChildrenNotable
Margaret Wild Julie Vivas Let the Celebrations Begin!Notable
Older Reader Howard Schwartz & Barbara Rush Uri Shulevitz The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales from Around the WorldWinner
Natalie S. Bober Vera Rosenberry Marc Chagall, Painter of DreamsNotable
Marilyn Kaye The Atonement of Mindy WiseNotable
Michael Marpugo Waiting for AnyaNotable
Uri Orlev , translated by Hillel Halkin The Man from the Other SideNotable
Steve Sanfield Mikhail Magaril The Feather Merchants and Other Tales of the Fools of Chelm Notable
Ida Vos , translated by Terese Edelstein and Inez Smidt Hide and SeekNotable
Jane Breskin Zalben Jane Breskin Zalben The Fortuneteller in 5BNotable
1990Younger Reader Eric A. Kimmel Giora Carmi The Chanukah GuestWinner
Harriet Feder Katherine Janus Kahn Judah Who Always Said "No."Honor
Barbara Diamond Goldin Jeanette Winter The World's Birthday: A Rosh Hashana StoryHonor
Phyllis Grode Shelly O. Haas Sophie's NameNotable
Amy Hest Amy SchwartzFancy Aunt JessNotable
Amy Hest Deborah Haeffele The Ring and the Window SeatNotable
Fran Manushkin Robin Spowart Latkes and ApplesauceNotable
Ann Morris Lilly Rivlin When Will the Fighting Stop?: A Child's View of JerusalemNotable
Lillian Hammer Ross Deborah Healy The Little Old Man and His DreamsNotable
Jane Breskin Zalben Jane Breskin Zalben Happy Passover, Rosie and Leo and Blossom's SukkahNotable
Older Reader Adèle Geras My Grandmother's StoriesWinner
Christa Laird Shadow of the WallHonor
Evelyn Wilde Mayerson The Cat Who Escaped from SteerageHonor
Barbara Barrie Lone StarNotable
Miriam Chaikin Erika Weihs Menorahs, Mezuzas, and Other Jewish SymbolsNotable
Sharlya Gold and Mishael Maswari Caspi Marjory Wunsch The Answered Prayer and Other Yemenite FolktalesNotable
Charlotte Herman Susan Avishai The House on Walenska StreetNotable
Carol Matas Code Name KrisNotable
Eileen Bluestone Sherman Independence AvenueNotable
Yale Strom A Tree Stands Still: Jewish Youth in Eastern Europe TodayNotable
Terry Walton Treseder Lloyd Bloom Hear O Israel: A Story of the Warsaw GhettoNotable
Fran Weissenberg The Streets Are Paved with GoldNotable
1989Younger Reader Esther Silverstein Blanc Tennessee Dixon BerchickWinner
Nancy Karkowsky Shelly O. Haas Grandma's SoupHonor
Eric A. Kimmel Trina Schart Hyman Hershel and the Hanukkah GoblinsHonor
Richard Rosenbloom Richard Rosenbloom The Old SynagogueHonor
David A. Adler Joan Halpern Malke's Secret Recipe: A Chanukah Story from Chelm Notable
Amy Ehrlich Ori Sherman The Story of HanukkahNotable
Harriet Feder Joan Halpern Not Yet, ElijahNotable
Florence Cassen Mayers ABC: The Alef-Bet Book, The Israel Museum, JerusalemNotable
Mindy Avra Portnoy Shelly O. Haas Mommy Never Went to Hebrew SchoolNotable
Marilyn Singer Ruth Rosner Minnie's Yom Kippur BirthdayNotable
Older Reader Lois Lowry Number the Stars Winner
Ferida Wolff Pink Slippers, Bat Mitzvah BluesHonor
Sonia Levitin Silver DaysHonor
Carol Matas Lisa's WarHonor
David A. Adler We Remember the HolocaustNotable
Miriam Chaikin Denise Saldutti Feathers in the WindNotable
Leonard Everett Fisher Leonard Everett Fisher The Wailing WallNotable
Marc Gellman Oscar de Mejo Does God Have a Big Toe? Notable
Jane Breskin Zalben Earth to Andrew O. BlechmanNotable
Teen Reader Mark Bernheim Father of the Orphans: The Story of Janusz KorczakNotable
Norman Finkelstein The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New WorldNotable
Yair Hoffman The World of the Bible for Young ReadersNotable
Pamela Melnikoff Plots and PlayersNotable
Margaret Sacks Beyond Safe BoundariesNotable
Efraim Sevela We Were Not Like Other PeopleNotable
1988Younger Reader Patricia Polacco Patricia Polacco The Keeping QuiltWinner
Yaffa Ganz Harvey Klineman From Head to Toe: A Book About YouHonor
Arthur Geisert Arthur Geisert The ArkHonor
Jane Breskin Zalben Jane Breskin Zalben Beni's First ChanukahHonor
Steven Bayer and Ilene Bayer Marlene Lobell Ruthen and Joanne Strauss Rachel and MischaNotable
Giora Carmi Giora Carmi And Shira ImaginedNotable
Barbara Cohen Susan Jeanne Cohen The Donkey's Story: A Bible StoryNotable
Ellie Gellman Barbara Gellner Justin's Hebrew NameNotable
Barbara Diamond Goldin Seymour Chwast Just Enough Is Plenty: A Hanukkah TaleNotable
Older Reader Jane Yolen The Devil's ArithmeticWinner
Jacqueline Dembar Greene Out of Many WatersHonor
Gary Provost and Gail Provost David and MaxHonor
Chaya Burstein A Kid's Catalog of IsraelNotable
Chaya Burstein The Mystery of the CoinsNotable
Miriam Chaikin Richard Egielski Friends ForeverNotable
Barry Cytron Fire! The Library Is BurningNotable
Miriam Elias And Then There Were FourNotable
Johanna Hurwitz Vera Rosenberry Anne Frank: Life in HidingNotable
Teen Reader Milton Meltzer Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the HolocaustHonor
David M. Brownstone The Jewish American HeritageNotable
Diane Lefer Emma LazarusNotable
Barbara Rogasky Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the HolocaustNotable
Renee Roth-Hano Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied FranceNotable
1987Younger Reader David A. Adler Rose Eichenbaum The Number on My Grandfather's ArmWinner
Judith Caseley Judith Caseley Apple Pie and OnionsNotable
Barbara Cohen Anatoly IvanovEven HigherNotable
Roberta Goldshlag Cooks Susan Martz Gittel and the BellNotable
Tomie dePaola Tomie dePaola Queen EstherNotable
Richard Rosenblum Richard Rosenblum My Sister's WeddingNotable
Older Reader Sonia Levitin The ReturnWinner
Miriam Chaikin Vera Rosenberry EstherNotable
Miriam Chaikin Charles Mikolaycak ExodusNotable
Miriam Chaikin Denise Saldutti Yossi Tries to Help GodNotable
Paul J. Citrin Lindsey Aitken Joseph's WardrobeNotable
Barbara Cohen Diane de Groat The Christmas RevolutionNotable
Barbara Cohen Martin Lemelman First FastNotable
Karla Kuskin David Frampton Jerusalem, Shining StillNotable
Steven Schnur Victor Lazzaro The Return of Morris SchumskyNotable
Madeline Wikler and Judyth Groner Chari Rudin Miracle Meals: Eight Nights of Food 'n Fun for ChanukahNotable
Teen Reader Merrill Joah Gerber Also Known as Sadzia! The Belly Dancer!Notable
Malka Drucker Eliezer Ben-Yehuda: The Father of Modern HebrewNotable
David Gross A Justice for All the People: Louis D. BrandeisNotable
Hazel Krantz Daughter of My People: Henrietta Szold and HadassahNotable
Lawrence Kushner Devis Grebu The Book of Miracles: A Young Person's Guide to Jewish SpiritualityNotable
Ilana Shamir (editor)The Young Reader's Encyclopedia of Jewish HistoryNotable
Pu'ah Shteiner Forever My JerusalemNotable
1986Younger Reader Marilyn Hirsh Devis Grebu Joseph Who Loved the SabbathWinner
Warwick Hutton Warwick Hutton Moses in the BulrushesNotable
Mindy Avra Portnoy Steffi Karen Rubin Ima on the Bima: My Mommy is a RabbiNotable
Pininnah Schramm Jacqueline Kahane The Big SukkahNotable
Amy SchwartzAmy SchwartzYossel Zissel and the Wisdom of Chelm Notable
Older Reader Nancy Pitt Beyond the High White WallWinner
Jacqueline Bacon Robert L. Wolfe and Diane Wolfe Cooking the Israeli WayNotable
Miriam Chaikin Yossi Abulafia Aviva's PianoNotable
Miriam Chaikin Erika Weihs Sound the Shofar: The Story and Meaning of Rosh Hashanah and Yom KippurNotable
Paul Cowan Rachel Cowan A Torah is WrittenNotable
Myra Cohn Livingston (editor) Lloyd Bloom Poems for Jewish HolidaysNotable
Steven Schnur Victor Lazzaro The Narrowest Bar MitzvahNotable
Maxine Schnur Donna Ruff Hannah Szenes: A Song of LightNotable
Barbara Spector The Great Jewish Quiz BookNotable
Teen Reader Donn Kushner Uncle Jacob's Ghost StoryNotable
Marilyn Lager Eric Lager Sigmund Freud: Doctor of the MindNotable
Nancy Smiler Levinson I Lift My Lamp: Emma Lazarus and the Statue of LibertyNotable
Anne E. Neimark One Man's Valor: Leo Baeck and the HolocaustNotable
Eileen Bluestone Sherman Monday in OdessaNotable
Miriam Stark Zakon Sigmund Forst The Floating Minyan of Pirate's CoveNotable
1985Younger Reader Florence B. Freedman Robert Andrew Parker BrothersWinner
Yaffa Ganz Harvey Klineman The Story of Mimmy and SimmyNotable
Leon Garfield Michael Bragg The King in the GardenNotable
Marilyn Hirsh Marilyn Hirsh I Love PassoverNotable
Ruth Schild Karlinsky Ruth Schild Karlinsky My First Book of MitzvosNotable
Riki Levinson Diane Goode Watch the Stars Come OutNotable
Mildred Phillips Margot Zemach The Sign in Mendel's WindowNotable
Barbara Pomerantz Donna Ruff Who Will Lead the Kiddush?Notable
Diana Herman Rosenfeld Yoel Kenny A Tree Full of MitzvosNotable
Diana Herman Rosenfeld Leonid Pinchevsky and Eliyahu Meshchaninov The Very Best Place for a PennyNotable
Glen Rounds Glen Rounds Washday on Noah's ArkNotable
Sheila Segal Joel Iskowitz Joshua's DreamNotable
Older Reader Carol Snyder Ike and Mama and the Seven SurprisesWinner
Miriam Chaikin Marvin Friedman Ask Another Question: The Story and Meaning of PassoverNotable
Miriam Chaikin Petra Mathers Yossi Asks the Angels for HelpNotable
Eth Clifford Donna Diamond The Remembering BoxNotable
Barbara Cohen Michael J. Deraney Secret GroveNotable
Howard Cushnir Katherine Kahn The Secret Spinner: Tales of Rav GedaliaNotable
Norman Finkelstein Lois Hokanson and Lars Hokanson Remember Not to ForgetNotable
Erwin Herman & Agnes Herman Katherine Kahn The Yanov TorahNotable
Lenore C. Kipper and Howard I. Gogot Jana Paiss The Alef-Bet of Jewish Values: Code Words of Jewish LifeNotable
Michael Mark Toba at the Hands of a ThiefNotable
Maxine Rose Schur Dale Redpath Shnook the PeddlerNotable
Arthur Waskow , David Waskow, and Shoshana Waskow Amnon Danziger Before There Was a BeforeNotable
Teen Reader Judie Angell One Way to AnsoniaNotable
Linda Atkinson In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944Notable
Margery Evernden The Dream KeeperNotable
Stephen Kaufman Does Anyone Here Know the Way to Thirteen?Notable
Leonie Ossowski Star without a SkyNotable
Sarah Silberstein Swartz Bar MitzvahNotable
1984Younger ReaderAmy SchwartzAmy SchwartzMrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath CandlesticksWinner
Older Reader Uri Orlev The Island on Bird StreetWinner
1983Younger Reader Barbara Pomerantz Leon Lurie Bubby, Me, and MemoriesWinner
Older Reader Rose Zar In the Mouth of the WolfWinner
1982Younger Reader Linda Heller Linda Heller The Castle on Hester StreetWinner
Older Reader Marilyn Sachs Call Me RuthWinner
1981Younger Reader Barbara Cohen Michael J. Deraney Yussel's PrayerWinner
Older Reader Kathryn Lasky The Night JourneyWinner
1980 Leonard Everett Fisher Leonard Everett Fisher A Russian FarewellWinner
1979 Carol Snyder Ike and Mama and the Block WeddingWinner
1978 Doris Orgel The Devil in ViennaWinner
1977 Anita Heyman Exit from HomeWinner
1976 Milton Meltzer Never to ForgetWinner
1975 Marietta Moskin Waiting for MamaWinner
1974No Award Given
1973 Yuri Suhl Uncle Misha's PartisansWinner
1972No Award Given
1971No Award Given
1970 Suzanne Lange The YearWinner
1969 Shulamith Ish-Kishor Our EddieWinner
1968 Esther Hautzig The Endless SteppeWinner

Body-of-Work Award

The body-of-work award is given "to recognize an author or entity who has made a substantial contribution over time to the genre of Jewish children's literature." [14] Beginning in 2018, the award became biennial instead of periodic.

Recipients

Body-of-Work Award Winners [14]
YearCategory
2022 Jane Yolen [15]
2020 Lesléa Newman
2018Harold Grinspoon and PJ Library
2004 Eric Kimmel
2002 Judye Groner and Madeline Wikler
1997 Barbara Diamond Goldin
1989 Yaffa Ganz
1984 Miriam Chaikin [16]
1981 Barbara Cohen
1980 Sadie Rose Weilerstein
1979 Marilyn Hirsh
1978 Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family
1972 Molly Cone
1971 Isaac Bashevis Singer

Manuscript Award

The Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award for children's books was first awarded in 1985. The winner receives $1,000. [17]

Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award Winners [18]
Award YearTitlePublished TitleAuthorPublisherPublication Year
2022Echo of Light Noah Weisz
2021Cats and Honey Cake Sonja Spear
2019A Corner of the World Jessica Littman
2018The Seventh Handmaiden Judith Pransky
2016Honey and Me Meira Drazin
2015Viva, Rose Susan Krawitz
2013Freestyle Karen Propp
2011In Search of Lottie Susan A. Ross
2010On the Run Joan Schoettler
2009When the Hurricane Came to New OrleansWhen the Hurricane Came Nechama Liss-Levinson 2012
2008Stealing the Show Margaret Chaiken
2007Getting Rid of Jeremy Yael Mermelstein
2004Cara's KitchenJulia's Kitchen Brenda A. Ferber Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2006
2002A Pickpocket's TaleA Pickpocket's Tale Karen Schwabach Random House 2006
1999Zayda Was a CowboyZayda Was a Cowboy June E. Nislick Jewish Publication Society 2005
1998DevorahThe Night of the Burning: Devorah's Story Linda Press Wulfe Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2006
1997When the Soldiers Were GoneWhen the Soldiers Were Gone Vera W. Propp G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999
1997All Star BrothersAll Star Season Tovah S. Yavin Kar-Ben 2006
1996Passover Promise Donna Brown Agins
1995After I Said No Sheila Golburgh Johnson
1994Of Heroes, Hooks and HeirloomsOf Heroes, Hooks and Heirlooms Faye Silton Jewish Publication Society 1996
1993The Treasure in the Tiny Blue TinThe Treasure in the Tiny Blue Tin Lilian Fox Ducharme Texas Christian University Press 1998
1991Garden of the Gentle Giant David Meir-Levi
1991Leaving Egypt Lois Roisman
1991Tamar's Cat Aviva Cantor
1990Rabbi Aaron's TreasureReb Aharon's Treasure Hannah Bandes Targum/Feldheim 1993
1990Operation DeweyOperation Dewey Dr. Kirby Rogers 2002
1988Borders Suzi Wizowaty
1987The Streets Are Paved with GoldThe Streets Are Paved with Gold Frances Weissenberg Harbinger House 1990
1986Cubs of the Lion of Judah Elaine Soloway
1985Spirit Rosalie Fleisher

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