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2023 Real Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour

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Read interviews with the gold and silver medalists on these wonderful blogs! Here is this year's full blog tour schedule. 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 , wido

The REAL 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Awards

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The Real Sydney Taylor Book Awards were announced on January 30, 2023! Below are the real winners, honors, and notable books for 2023! We've linked to the Shmooze reviews, but you'll notice that there is one book we didn't review. We try to cover all the Jewish books published each year but sometimes we miss a few.  Listen to a podcast interview with awards chair Martha Seif Simpson on The Book of Life about this year's winners! The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs by Chana, illustrations by Susan Gal. Published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2022. ISBN: 9781338225891. Thirty-five years after Nazis destroyed her beloved shtetl of Eishyshok, Poland, Yaffe Eliach recovered thousands of precious photographs preserved by relatives and survivors to recreate her community at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Susan Gal’s expressive illustrations bring to life this true story of love and rem