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Susan Kusel
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Heidi Rabinowitz
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We are people who are on the silly side, so we decided to make this page reflect that, instead of providing our usual canned bios.
Also, it appears that we've done a lot of the same things in our careers.
Susan & Chava & Heidi:
-are all librarians
-have served on and been the chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee
-have served on the Board and Council of the Association of Jewish Libraries
-created The Sydney Taylor Shmooze together
Susan & Heidi:
-created the Jewish Kidlit Mavens Facebook Group
Susan:
-is a children's book buyer for an independent bookstore
-owns a children's book consulting company
-has been on the Caldecott committee
-has written a Jewish picture book
Chava:
-lives in Israel
-has organized two private libraries
-compiled and edited a book about the Sydney Taylor Book Award
Heidi:
-has an awesome podcast, The Book of Life
-is a former president of the Association of Jewish Libraries
-has served on the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award committee
-has won the Fanny Goldstein Award
They all:
-are pretty silly
-love Jewish children's books
-believe in the importance of seeing more Jewish books on more topics in more places
-can be contacted here