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Author’s Notebook | Deborah Heiligman and her New YA Novel, Intentions
Deborah Heiligman is the author of almost thirty books for children, from picture books (fiction and nonfiction) to middle grade biographies and including Charles and Emma: The Darwin’s Leap of Faith...
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Author’s Notebook | Yael Levy, Author of YA Romance, Brooklyn Love
A freelance illustrator and journalist, Yael Levy has been published in numerous venues, including The Jerusalem Post during her three-year stay in Israel just east of the bustling capital city of Tel...
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2013 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour | Final Stop
You’ve now come to the final stop along the 2013 Sydney Taylor Book Award blog tour, the culmination of a full week of insightful and inspiring award-winning author and illustrator interviews. Read...
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Author’s Notebook | Louise Borden, His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg
Louise Borden is the recipient of the 2013 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Older Readers for His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg. She found the time to share her story with The Whole Megillah while moving. The...
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Author Notebook | Jordan Sonnenblick, Curveball
The Whole Megillah (TWM): When did you know you wanted to write? Jordan Sonnenblick (JS): Oh, I’ve known forever. Everyone on my mom’s side of the family was a writer, and I wanted in! My maternal...
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Author’s Notebook | Maryann MacDonald, Odette’s Secrets
Maryann MacDonald is the author of the newly published Odette’s Secrets (Bloomsbury), the story of a young Jewish girl in France forced into hiding during World War II. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What...
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Author’s Notebook | Austin Ratner, In the Land of the Living
As a representative of the Association of Jewish Libraries, I had the unique opportunity to interview Austin Ratner about his new novel. His previous novel, Jump Artist, received the Jewish Book...
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Four-in-One Author’s Notebook | A Cyber Roundtable about Writing Jewish...
At the 2011 Highlights Foundation workshop, “Writing Jewish-themed Children’s Books,” I had the pleasure of meeting four talented writers: Lois Barr, Marcia Berneger, Dede Fox, and Joan Seliger Sidney....
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Two-in-One Notebook Special | Author Leanne Lieberman and Editor Sarah...
The Whole Megillah caught up with Leanne Liebermann and her editor Sarah Harvey to talk about the new YA novel, Lauren Yanovsky Hates the Holocaust (Orca, 2013, 240 pp.). The Whole Megillah (TWM): What...
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Author’s Notebook | Leslea Newman
Lesléa Newman introduced herself to me after my Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) panel on “The Whole Megillah: The Jewish Experience in Children’s Books.” I was so honored to meet...
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Author’s Notebook | Joy Ladin
I first heard poet and memoirist Joy Ladin speak at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs in 2012 in Chicago. I heard her again at the same conference in 2013 in Boston. If you don’t know...
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Author’s Notebook | Ellen Bari, The Tattered Prayer Book
The Whole Megillah (TWM): What prompted you to write The Tattered Prayer Book? Ellen Bari (EB): When my daughter was picture book age, there were almost no books about the Holocaust for young children....
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The Biographer’s Challenge | Guest Post by Catherine Reef
When I first thought about writing Leonard Bernstein and American Music, I had just finished work on a young adult biography of Ernest Hemingway, whose story was a sad one. Here was a charismatic young...
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Author’s Notebook | The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb
The Whole Megillah (TWM): What prompted you to write a book for young readers about the capture of Adolf Eichmann? Neal Bascomb (NB): Cheryl Klein, a wonderful editor at Scholastic, called me out of...
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Author’s Notebook | Sarah Aronson, Author of Believe
The Whole Megillah (TWM): What was your process for writing Believe? Where did you get the inspiration for the story? Sarah Aronson (SA): Every book I write teaches me at least one thing: how to write...
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Thoughts on Jewish Story | Guest Post by Erika Dreifus
The Whole Megillah is pleased to post this entry by Erika Dreifus, who joins the Fiction Panel at the May 18, 2014 Conference on Jewish Story in New York City. For more about the conference, click...
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2014 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour | Final Stop
You’ve now come to the final stop along the 2014 Sydney Taylor Book Award blog tour, the culmination of a full week of insightful and inspiring award-winning author and illustrator interviews. Read...
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Guest Post |Fiction Author and Editor Nora Gold
Next week I will be speaking at the Seminar on the Jewish Story about how being the editor of the online literary journal Jewish Fiction .net affects me as a writer, and vice versa. I look forward to...
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Author’s Notebook | Martin Goldsmith, Author of Alex’s Wake
From May 13 through May 27, the MS St. Louis, a Hamburg-Amerika luxury liner, carried nearly 1,000 German-Jewish refugees to alleged safety in Havana in 1939. The refugees, save 22 first-class...
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Four-in-One Notebook Special: A Conversation with Capstone Editors and Authors
Capstone develops nonfiction titles for the school and library market. Here The Whole Megillah presents a dialogue with the editors and authors of two titles, A World War II Timeline and Hitler in...
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