Sydney Taylor Book Award
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Sydney Taylor Book Award | |
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Awarded for | outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Association of Jewish Libraries |
First awarded | 1968 |
Website | jewishlibraries |
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.
History[]
The award was first established by the Association of Jewish Libraries in 1968.[1] Originally, it was known as the Shirley Kravitz Children's Book Award and was later renamed in honor of Sydney Taylor in 1978.[2] The award originally 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.[3] In 1988, Honor Award Winners were added and these books receive a silver seal.[3] 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.[3] Books are evaluated based on certain criteria one of which is literary merit.[4] 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.[4] Books nominated are newly published books for the year.[5] Books can be picture books, non-fiction, fiction and poetry.[6]
Criteria[]
- The book has literary merit.
- The book has positive and authentic Jewish religious or cultural content.
- The book is appropriate for the intended grade level in style, vocabulary, format, and illustration.
- Whether fiction or nonfiction, the book is solidly rooted in authentic and accurate detail through scholarship and research by the author.
- Particular attention will be paid to titles that demonstrate the broad diversity of the Jewish experience, including diversity of time period and country of origin.
- Textbooks, liturgy, and reprints are not eligible. Significantly revised editions and re-illustrated editions are eligible.
- Books must be commercially available for purchase in order to be eligible.
- Self-published books are not eligible. The author and illustrator must not have paid any money to the publisher. The book must be edited by a professional editor at no cost to the author/illustrator. The publisher must publish books by multiple authors.
- Books must be published in English (whether originally in English or in translation)
- If the same book is published in English in multiple countries, the first version submitted will be considered for the award. Other versions then become ineligible.[7]
Themes[]
Most Sydney Taylor Book Award winning titles are universal in theme while Judaic in specific content, and will be of interest to Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike.
Children's Book Award Recipients[]
Year | Category | Author | Illustrator | Book | Medal |
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2022 | Picture Book | Sean Rubin | The Passover Guest | Winner | |
Peter Sís | Peter Sís | Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued | Honor | ||
Nancy Churnin | Dear Mr. Dickens | Honor | |||
Jeff Gottesfeld | The Christmas Mitzvah | Honor | |||
Middle Grade | Veera Hiranandani | How to Find What You’re Not Looking For | Winner | ||
Eugene Yelchin | Eugene Yelchin | The Genius Under the Table: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain | Honor | ||
Gordon Korman | Linked | Honor | |||
Young Adult | The City Beautiful | Winner | |||
The Last Words We Said | Honor | ||||
E. Lockhart | Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero | Honor | |||
The Summer of Lost Letters | Honor | ||||
2021[9] | Picture Book | Lesléa Newman | Susan Gal | Welcoming Elijah: a Passover Tale with a Tail | Winner |
I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book | Honor | ||||
Jane Yolen | Miriam at the River | Honor | |||
The Eight Knights of Hanukkah | Notable | ||||
The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine | Notable | ||||
Shahar Kober | The Ninth Night of Hanukkah | Notable | |||
Middle Grade | Turtle Boy | Winner [1] | |||
The Blackbird Girls | Honor | ||||
No Vacancy | Honor | ||||
Anya and the Nightingale | Honor | ||||
Tammar Stein | Beni's War | Notable | |||
Deborah Hopkinson | We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport | Notable | |||
Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan | A Place at the Table | Notable | |||
Ruth Behar | Letters from Cuba | Notable | |||
Young Adult | Dancing at the Pity Party | Winner | |||
Monica Hesse | They Went Left | Honor | |||
Today Tonight Tomorrow | Notable | ||||
Adam Eli | The New Queer Conscience | Notable | |||
Gavriel Savit | The Way Back | Notable | |||
The Assignment | Notable | ||||
2020 | Picture Book | Sue Macy | The Book Rescuer | Winner | |
Lesléa Newman | Gittel's Journey | Honor | |||
The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music | Honor | ||||
Parrots, Pugs and Pixie Dust: A Book about Fashion Designer Judith Leiber | Notable | ||||
A Scarf for Keiko | Notable | ||||
Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope | Notable | ||||
Middle Grade | R. J. Palacio | R. J. Palacio | White Bird: A Wonder Story | Winner | |
Anya and the Dragon | Honor | ||||
Andrew Maraniss | Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany | Honor | |||
Kathy Kacer | Masters of Silence | Notable | |||
Edeet Ravel | A Boy is Not a Bird | Notable | |||
Rachel’s Roses | Notable | ||||
Young Adult | Rachel DeWoskin | Someday We Will Fly | Winner | ||
Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life and Work | Honor | ||||
Hannah Moskowitz | Sick Kids in Love | Honor | |||
In the Neighborhood of True | Notable | ||||
Albert Marrin | A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust | Notable | |||
2019 [10] | Younger Reader | Emily Jenkins | Paul O. Zelinsky | All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah | Winner |
Mary GrandPré | Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall's Life | Honor | |||
Jane Breskin Zalben | A Moon for Moe and Mo | Honor | |||
Nancy Churnin | Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing | Notable | |||
Write On, Irving Berlin! | Notable | ||||
French Toast Sundays | Notable | ||||
The Passover Parrot | Notable | ||||
Older Reader | Jonathan Auxier | Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | Winner | ||
All Three Stooges | Honor | ||||
The Length of a String | Honor | ||||
Anne Frank, adapted by Ari Folman | David Polonsky | Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation | Notable | ||
12 Before 13 | Notable | ||||
Jacqueline Jules | Light the Menorah: A Hanukkah Handbook | Notable | |||
Young Adult | What the Night Sings | Winner | |||
You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone | Honor | ||||
Jennifer Nielsen | Resistance | Notable | |||
2018 | Younger Reader | Richard Michelson | The Language of Angels: A Story About the Reinvention of Hebrew | Winner | |
Fawzia Gilani-Williams | Yaffa and Fatima: Shalom, Salaam | Honor | |||
Jacqueline Jules | Drop by Drop: A Story of Rabbi Akiva | Honor | |||
David A. Adler | Yom Kippur Shortstop | Notable | |||
Under the Sabbath Lamp | Notable | ||||
Eric A. Kimmel | Big Sam: A Rosh Hashanah Tall Tale | Notable | |||
The Knish War on Rivington Street | Notable | ||||
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality | Notable | ||||
Older Reader | Alan Gratz | Winner | |||
Viva Rose! | Honor | ||||
and | This is Just a Test | Honor | |||
Tammar Stein | The Six Day Hero | Honor | |||
Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust | Notable | ||||
Mona Golabek and , adapted by | The Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Hope and Survival during World War II: Young Readers Edition | Notable | |||
Wordwings | Notable | ||||
The Dollmaker of Krakow | Notable | ||||
Teen Reader | Antonio Iturbe | The Librarian of Auschwitz | Winner | ||
Kathy Kacer with | To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen's Account of a War Criminal Trial | Honor | |||
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Viktor E. Frankl | Man's Search for Meaning: Young Reader Edition | Notable | |||
Ronit & Jamil | Notable | ||||
Stolen Secrets | Notable | ||||
2017 | Younger Reader | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | Winner | ||
A Hat for Mrs. Goldman: A Story About Knitting and Love | Honor | ||||
Richard Michelson | Edel Rodriguez | Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy | Honor | ||
The Sundown Kid: A Southwestern Shabbat | Notable | ||||
On One Foot | Notable | ||||
Jeff Gottesfeld | The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank’s Window | Notable | |||
Eric Kimmel | Gabriel’s Horn | Notable | |||
Chicken Soup, Chicken Soup | Notable | ||||
Not This Turkey! | Notable | ||||
Older Reader | Adam Gidwitz | The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Winner | ||
Driedels on the Brain | Honor | ||||
Andrea Davis Pinkney | and | A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day | Honor | ||
The Ship to Nowhere: On Board the Exodus | Notable | ||||
Tilar J. Mazzeo, adapted by | Irena’s Children: Young Readers Edition: A True Story of Courage | Notable | |||
The Bicycle Spy | Notable | ||||
Skating with the Statue of Liberty | Notable | ||||
Teen Reader | Gavriel Savit | Anna and the Swallow Man | Winner | ||
2016 | Younger Reader | Lesléa Newman | Ketzel, the Cat who Composed | Winner | |
Shanghai Sukkah | Honor | ||||
Everybody Says Shalom | Honor | ||||
David A. Adler | Hanukkah Cookies with Sprinkles | Notable | |||
Jamie Korngold | Sadie and Ori and the Blue Blanket | Notable | |||
Isaac Bashevis Singer | The Parakeet Named Dreidel | Notable | |||
Older Reader | Aharon Appelfeld | Adam and Thomas | Winner | ||
Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish | Honor | ||||
The Safest Lie | Notable | ||||
Mr. Doctor: Janusz Korczak and the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable | ||||
Watch Out for Flying Kids: How Two Circuses, Two Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build Community | Notable | ||||
J. Patrick Lewis | The Wren and the Sparrow | Notable | |||
The Girl in the Torch | Notable | ||||
Teen Reader | Laura Amy Schlitz | Winner | |||
Kathy Kacer | Stones on a Grave | Honor | |||
Serendipity’s Footsteps | Honor | ||||
Last Night at the Circle Cinema | Notable | ||||
Deborah Hopkinson | Courage and Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark | Notable | |||
Imagining Katherine | Notable | ||||
Annika Thor | Deep Sea | Notable | |||
2015 | Younger Reader | Barbara McClintock | My Grandfather’s Coat | Winner | |
Goldie Takes a Stand | Honor | ||||
Jacqueline Jules | Never Say a Mean Word Again: A Tale from Medieval Spain | Honor | |||
Older Reader | and (colors) | Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust | Winner | ||
Death by Toilet Paper | Honor | ||||
Jennifer Elvgren | Whispering Town | Honor | |||
Teen Reader | Donna Jo Napoli | Storm | Winner | ||
Isabel’s War | Honor | ||||
Like No Other | Honor | ||||
2014 | Younger Reader | Laurel Snyder | The Longest Night | Winner | |
Cosei Kawa | Rifka Takes a Bow | Honor | |||
Stones for Grandpa | Honor | ||||
Older Reader | Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | The Blessing Cup | Winner | |
Leon Leyson, with and | The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's list | Honor | |||
Carol Matas | Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948 | Honor | |||
Teen Reader | Neal Bascomb | The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi | Winner | ||
Dancing in the Dark | Honor | ||||
Aline Sax, translated by Laura Watkinson | The War Within These Walls | Honor | |||
2013 | Younger Reader | Hannah’s Way | Winner | ||
Zayde Comes to Live | Honor | ||||
The Elijah Door: A Passover Tale | Honor | ||||
Older Reader | His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg | Winner | |||
The Wooden Sword: A Jewish Folktale from Afghanistan | Honor | ||||
Teen Reader | Deborah Heiligman | Intentions | Winner | ||
Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust | Honor | ||||
2012 | Younger Reader | Michael J. Rosen | Robert Sabuda | Chanukah Lights | Winner |
Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Holly Meade | Naamah and the Ark at Night | Honor | ||
Around the World in One Shabbat | Honor | ||||
Older Reader | Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein | Winner | |||
Trina Robbins | and | Lily Renee, Escape Artist: from Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer | Honor | ||
Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg: Baseball Pioneer | Honor | ||||
Irena’s Jars of Secrets | Honor | ||||
Teen Reader | The Berlin Boxing Club | Winner | |||
Morris Gleitzman | Then | Honor | |||
The Blood Lie | Honor | ||||
2011 | Younger Reader | Howard Schwartz | Gathering Sparks | Winner | |
Modeh Ani: A Good Morning Book | Honor | ||||
Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty | Honor | ||||
Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale | Honor | ||||
Older Reader | Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword | Winner | |||
Leland Purvis | Resistance | Honor | |||
One Is Not a Lonely Number | Honor | ||||
Black Radishes | Honor | ||||
Teen Reader | The Things a Brother Knows | Winner | |||
Eishes Chayil | Hush | Honor | |||
Morris Gleitzman | Once | Honor | |||
Life, After | Honor | ||||
2010 | Younger Reader | April Halprin Wayland | Stéphane Jorisch | New Year at the Pier | Winner |
Jago | Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover Story | Honor | |||
Jacqueline Jules | Benjamin and the Silver Goblet | Honor | |||
Yankee at the Seder | Honor | ||||
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax? | Honor | ||||
Older Reader | The Importance of Wings | Winner | |||
and , translated by Arnold J. Pomerans | Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures from the Archives of the Anne Frank House | Honor | |||
Annika Thor, translated by | A Faraway Island | Honor | |||
Teen Reader | Margarita Engle | Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba | Winner | ||
Lost | Honor | ||||
Naomi’s Song | Honor | ||||
2009 | Younger Reader | Richard Michelson | As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom | Winner | |
Shahar Kober | Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride | Honor | |||
Jacqueline Jules | Sarah Laughs | Honor | |||
Richard Michelson | A is for Abraham: A Jewish Family Alphabet | Honor | |||
Jane Yolen | Jim Burke | Naming Liberty | Honor | ||
Older Reader | Karen Hesse | Brooklyn Bridge | Winner | ||
Aranka Siegal | Memories of Babi | Honor | |||
Teen Reader | Valérie Zenatti | A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | Winner | ||
Anna Levine | Freefall | Honor | |||
2008 | Younger Reader | The Bedtime Sh’ma | Winner | ||
The Castle on Hester Street | Honor | ||||
Letter on the Wind: A Chanukah Tale | Honor | ||||
Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Light | Honor | ||
Older Reader | Sid Fleischman | The Entertainer and the Dybbuk | Winner | ||
and Dan Stone. | Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People | Honor | |||
and | The Secret of Priest’s Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story | Honor | |||
Teen Reader | Sonia Levitin | Strange Relations | Winner | ||
Mirjam Pressler, translated by | Let Sleeping Dogs Lie | Honor | |||
2007 | Younger Reader | Hanukkah at Valley Forge | Winner | ||
Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | The White Ram: A Story of Abraham and Isaac | Honor | ||
I Am Marc Chagall | Honor | ||||
Shlemazel and the Remarkable Spoon of Pohost | Honor | ||||
Rebecca’s Journey Home | Honor | ||||
Older Reader | Brenda Ferber | Julia’s Kitchen | Winner | ||
Vive La Paris | Honor | ||||
Sheldon Oberman | Solomon and the Ant and Other Jewish Folktales | Honor | |||
Jennifer Roy | Yellow Star | Honor | |||
The Night of the Burning: Devorah’s Story | Honor | ||||
Teen Reader | Markus Zusak | The Book Thief | Winner | ||
Alice Hoffman | Incantation | Honor | |||
A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life | Honor | ||||
2006 | Younger Reader | Erica Silverman | Mordicai Gerstein | Sholom Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer | Winner |
The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey | Honor | ||||
Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | Ruth and Naomi: A Bible Story | Honor | ||
Shlemiel Crooks | Honor | ||||
Simms Taback | Simms Taback | Kibitzers and Fools: Tales My Zayda Told Me | Honor | ||
Older Reader | Confessions of a Closet Catholic | Winner | |||
Esther Nisenthal Krinitz and | Memories of Survival | Honor | |||
Donna Jo Napoli | The King of Mulberry Street | Honor | |||
Holly-Jane Rahlens | Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and Me | Honor | |||
Uri Shulevitz | Uri Shulevitz | The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century | Honor | ||
2005 | Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication. | ||||
2004 | Younger Reader | Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | Daniel in the Lions’ Den | Honor |
The Mystery Bear: A Purim Story | Notable | ||||
Papa's Latkes | Notable | ||||
Mrs. Greenberg's Messy Hanukkah | Notable | ||||
Lawrence A. Hoffman and | Bill Aron | What You Will See Inside a Synagogue | Notable | ||
Pauline Baynes | The Coat of Many Colors | Notable | |||
It's Sukkah Time! | Notable | ||||
Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | David and Goliath | Notable | ||
Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | Jonah and the Whale (and the Worm) | Notable | ||
Jean Marzollo | Jean Marzollo | Miriam and Her Brother Moses | Notable | ||
Apples and Pomegranates: A Family Seder for Rosh Hashanah | Notable | ||||
Where Do People Go When They Die? | Notable | ||||
Older Reader | Pnina Moed Kass | Real Time | Winner | ||
David Chotjewitz, translated by Doris Orgel | Daniel, Half-Human | Honor | |||
Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything | Honor | ||||
Karen Hesse | Wendy Watson | The Cats in Krasinski Square | Honor | ||
Eric A. Kimmel | Wonders and Miracles: A Passover Companion | Honor | |||
Sylvie Weil, translated by | My Guardian Angel | Honor | |||
David A. Adler | The Kids' Catalog of Hanukkah | Notable | |||
and | Yossi Abulafia | The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls | Notable | ||
Bruce Feiler | Walking the Bible: An Illustrated Journey for Kids | Notable | |||
L'Chaim: to Jewish life in America | Notable | ||||
Israel in Pictures | Notable | ||||
David Grossman, translated by | Duel | Notable | |||
Tony Johnston | The Harmonica | Notable | |||
Kathy Kacer | The Underground Reporters | Notable | |||
The Dog of Knots | Notable | ||||
Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906 | Notable | ||||
Carol Matas | Rosie in Los Angeles: Action! | Notable | |||
Sharon E. McKay | Esther | Notable | |||
Albert Einstein | Notable | ||||
The Queen of Persia | Notable | ||||
Missing Persons: The Chocolate Lover | Notable | ||||
and | Six Million Paper Clips | Notable | |||
Josepha Sherman | Your Travel Guide to Ancient Israel | Notable | |||
Ilan Ramon: Israel's Space Hero | Notable | ||||
Ilan Ramon: Jewish Star | Notable | ||||
and | Matzah Meals: A Passover Cookbook for Kids (revised edition) | Notable | |||
2003 | Younger Reader | Dušan Petričić | Bagels from Benny | Winner | |
Pauline Baynes | The Moses Basket | Honor | |||
Chanukah on the Prairie | Honor | ||||
Erica Silverman | When the Chickens Went on Strike: A Rosh Hashanah Tale | Honor | |||
I Only Like What I Like | Honor | ||||
and | Long Johns for a Small Chicken | Honor | |||
Avram's Gift | Honor | ||||
Mark Podwal | Mark Podwal | A Sweet Year: A Taste of the Jewish Holidays | Honor | ||
Five Alive! My Yom Tov Five Senses | Honor | ||||
Tali's Jerusalem Scrapbook | Honor | ||||
Pete Seeger | Turn, Turn, Turn | Honor | |||
The Passover Seder | Honor | ||||
Jill McElmurry | It's a Miracle! A Hanukkah Storybook | Honor | |||
Something for Nothing | Honor | ||||
Richard Ungar | Richard Ungar | Rachel's Gift | Honor | ||
Older Reader | Who Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat? | Winner | |||
Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors: An Activity Guide | Honor | ||||
Tough Questions Jews Ask: A Young Adult's Guide to Building a Jewish Life | Honor | ||||
Birdland | Honor | ||||
Golda Meir | Notable | ||||
Adèle Geras | Anita Lobel | My Grandmother's Stories: A Collection of Jewish Folktales | Notable | ||
Karen Hesse | Brian Pinkney | The Stone Lamp: Eight Stories of Hanukkah through History | Notable | ||
Deborah Hopkinson | Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York | Notable | |||
Tony Kushner | Maurice Sendak | Brundibar | Notable | ||
Sonia Levitin | Room in the Heart | Notable | |||
Carol Matas | Rosie in New York City: Gotcha! | Notable | |||
Gloria D. Miklowitz | The Enemy Has a Face | Notable | |||
Abraham Joshua Heschel: Man of Spirit, Man of Action | Notable | ||||
Murder at the 1972 Olympics in Munich | Notable | ||||
Jerry Spinelli | Milkweed | Notable | |||
Ilan Ramon: Israel's First Astronaut | Notable | ||||
, as told to | Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen | Notable | |||
Marc Chagall | Notable | ||||
2002 | Younger Reader | Chicken Soup by Heart | Winner | ||
Jerry Pinkney | Jerry Pinkney | Noah’s Ark | Honor | ||
Sammy Spider’s First Trip to Israel: A Book about the Five Senses | Honor | ||||
Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Pearl’s Passover: A Family Celebration through Stories, Recipes, Crafts, And Songs | Honor | ||
Night Lights: A Sukkot Story | Notable | ||||
The Beautiful World That God Made | Notable | ||||
Matzah Man | Notable | ||||
It's Challah Time! | Notable | ||||
Karla Kuskin | The Animals and the Ark | Notable | |||
Lesléa Newman | Runaway Dreidel | Notable | |||
The Sukkah That I Built | Notable | ||||
Noah's Ark | Notable | ||||
Older Reader | Karen Levine | Hana’s Suitcase | Winner | ||
Eve Bunting | One Candle | Honor | |||
Esther Hautzig | A Picture of Grandmother | Honor | |||
Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust, Revised and Expanded | Honor | ||||
The Kids' Cartoon Bible | Notable | ||||
Alexandra's Scroll: The Story of the First Hanukkah | Notable | ||||
Angels Sweep the Desert Floor: Bible Legends about Moses in the Wilderness | Notable | ||||
Andrea Cheng | Marika | Notable | |||
Ilene Cooper | Jewish Holidays All Year Round: A Family Treasury | Notable | |||
Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish-American Experience | Notable | ||||
Harry Bliss | And God Cried, Too: A Kid's Book About Healing and Hope | Notable | |||
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler | Notable | ||||
Clive A. Lawton | Auschwitz: The Story of a Nazi Death Camp | Notable | |||
Carol Ann Lee | Anne Frank's Story: Her Life Retold for Children | Notable | |||
Smoke | Notable | ||||
Carol Matas | Sparks Fly Upward | Notable | |||
Richard Michelson | Too Young for Yiddish | Notable | |||
Jeremiah's Promise: An Adventure in Modern Israel | Notable | ||||
Howard Schwartz | Invisible Kingdoms: Jewish Tales of Angels, Spirits, and Demons | Notable | |||
Facing the Music | Notable | ||||
The Promised Land: The Birth of the Jewish People | Notable | ||||
Irene N. Watts | Finding Sophie: A Search for Belonging in Postwar Britain | Notable | |||
2001 | Younger Reader | Rivka’s First Thanksgiving | Winner | ||
Sue Alexander | Behold the Trees | Notable | |||
Solomon and the Trees | Notable | ||||
The God around Us, Volume 2: The Valley of Blessings | Notable | ||||
Hanukkah Cat (Revised Edition) | Notable | ||||
and | Snow in Jerusalem | Notable | |||
The Rabbi Who Flew | Notable | ||||
On Shabbat | Notable | ||||
A Mountain of Blintzes | Notable | ||||
The Friday Nights of Nana | Notable | ||||
Jacqueline Jules | The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story | Notable | |||
Eric A. Kimmel | Zigazak! A Magical Hanukkah Night | Notable | |||
Cain and Abel: Finding the Fruits of Peace | Notable | ||||
The Shabbat Box | Notable | ||||
Lemuel, the Fool | Notable | ||||
Richard Ungar | Rachel Captures the Moon | Notable | |||
Older Reader | Sigmund Freud: Pioneer of the Mind | Winner | |||
Daughter of Light | Notable | ||||
Hans and Sophie Scholl: German Resisters of the White Rose | Notable | ||||
Death on Sacred Ground | Notable | ||||
Kathy Kacer | Clara's War | Notable | |||
Rivka's Way | Notable | ||||
Understanding Buddy | Notable | ||||
Stolen Words | Notable | ||||
Uri Shulevitz | Daughter of Fire: Heroines of the Bible | Notable | |||
Carol Matas | The War Within | Notable | |||
Gloria Miklowitz | Secrets in the House of Delgado | Notable | |||
Denis Rodier | Shoes for Amelie | Notable | |||
Friend of Foe? | Notable | ||||
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps | Notable | ||||
Ilse Weber, translated by Ruth and Hans Fisher | Mendel Rosenbusch: Tales for Jewish Children | Notable | |||
Jane Breskin Zalben | The Magic Menorah: A Modern Chanukah Tale | Notable | |||
Teen Reader | Howard Greenfield | After the Holocaust | Notable | ||
Gary D. Schmidt | Mara's Stories: Glimmers in the Dark | Notable | |||
2000 | Younger Reader | Eric A. Kimmel | Jon J. Muth | Gershon’s Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year | Winner |
Cary Fagan | Regolo Ricci | The Market Wedding | Honor | ||
Sheldon Oberman | The Wisdom Bird: A Tale of Solomon and Sheba | Honor | |||
and | The Legend of Freedom Hill | Notable | |||
On Purim | Notable | ||||
Dance, Sing, Remember | Notable | ||||
Come, Let Us Be Joyful: The Story of Hava Nagila | Notable | ||||
Moishe's Miracle | Notable | ||||
Thread of Kindness: A Tzedaka Story | Notable | ||||
Older Reader | Ida Vos | The Key Is Lost | Winner | ||
Love You, Soldier | Honor | ||||
Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin | Honor | ||||
, translated by Yael Lotan | Samir and Yonatan | Notable | |||
Carmen Agra Deedy | The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark | Notable | |||
Photo Odyssey: Solomon Carvalho's Remarkable Western Adventure, 1853-1854 | Notable | ||||
Torn Thread | Notable | ||||
Tales for the Seventh Day | Notable | ||||
Eric A. Kimmel | Mordicai Gerstein | The Jar of Fools: Eight Hanukkah Stories from Chelm | Notable | ||
Julius Lester | Pharaoh's Daughter | Notable | |||
Ellen Levine | Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews | Notable | |||
Marissa Moss | Marissa Moss | Hannah's Journal: The Story of an Immigrant Girl | Notable | ||
Why on This Night? A Passover Haggadah for Family Celebration | Notable | ||||
Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | The Butterfly | Notable | ||
Escaping to America: A True Story | Notable | ||||
Howard Schwartz | The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic | Notable | |||
Mendel Grossman | My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto | Notable | |||
Marilyn Taylor | Faraway Home | Notable | |||
Invisible Chains | Notable | ||||
Irene Watts | Remember Me: A Search for Refuge in Wartime Britain | Notable | |||
1999 | Younger Reader | The Peddler’s Gift | Winner | ||
Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | Noah and the Great Flood | Honor | ||
Simms Taback | Simms Taback | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat | Honor | ||
Baby’s Bris | Honor | ||||
Joel Anderson | David and the Trash-Talkin' Giant: Mr. Grungy's Seek and Find Bible Stories | Notable | |||
Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | Queen Esther, the Morning Star | Notable | ||
How Yussel Caught the Gefilte Fish: A Shabbos Story | Notable | ||||
This Is Our Seder | Notable | ||||
Shirley Hughes | Shirley Hughes | The Lion and the Unicorn | Notable | ||
The Ten Commandments for Jewish Children | Notable | ||||
The Very Best Hanukkah Gift | Notable | ||||
Matzah Ball Soup | Notable | ||||
For Heaven's Sake | Notable | ||||
Erica Silverman | Raisel's Riddle | Notable | |||
Rosemary Wells | Streets of Gold | Notable | |||
Elie Wiesel | Mark Podwal | King Solomon and His Magic Ring | Notable | ||
Elvira Woodruff | The Memory Coat | Notable | |||
Older Reader | The Speed of Light | Winner | |||
Jerry Pinkney | Journeys with Elijah | Honor | |||
Julius Lester | When The Beginning Began: Stories About God, the Creatures and Us | Honor | |||
When the Soldiers Were Gone | Honor | ||||
, editor | With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories about Growing Up Jewish | Notable | |||
Two Suns in the Sky | Notable | ||||
Livia Bitton-Jackson | My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love after Auschwitz | Notable | |||
Escape: Teens Who Escaped the Holocaust to Freedom | Notable | ||||
Beatrice Gormley | Miriam | Notable | |||
Anna Levine | Running on Eggs | Notable | |||
Sonia Levitin | The Cure | Notable | |||
My Name Is Not Gussie | Notable | ||||
Gregory Maguire | The Good Liar | Notable | |||
Carol Matas | In My Enemy's House | Notable | |||
Missing Girls | Notable | ||||
Howard Schwartz and Barbara Rush, editors | A Coat for the Moon and Other Jewish Tales | Notable | |||
John Severance | Einstein: Visionary Scientist | Notable | |||
Star of Luís | Notable | ||||
1998 | Younger Reader | Nine Spoons | Winner | ||
Rita Golden Gelman | Frane Lessac | Queen Esther Saves Her People | Honor | ||
Francine Prose | Mark Podwal | You Never Know: A Legend of the Lamed-Vavniks | Honor | ||
Jeffrey Schrier | Jeffrey Schrier | On the Wings of Eagles: An Ethiopian Boy’s Story | Honor | ||
The Magic of Kol Nidre | Honor | ||||
S. Y. Agnon, translated by Robert Friend | Agnon's Alef Bet: Poems by S. Y. Agnon | Notable | |||
, with | Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America | Notable | |||
The Way Meat Loves Salt | Notable | ||||
, translated by | Lisbeth Zwerger | Noah's Ark | Notable | ||
Jacqueline Jules | Once Upon a Shabbos | Notable | |||
William Kaplan, with Shelley Tanaka | Stephen Taylor | One More Border | Notable | ||
Eric A. Kimmel | Barbara McClintock | When Mindy Saved Hanukkah | Notable | ||
Miriam's Cup | Notable | ||||
Mark Podwal | Mark Podwal | The Menorah Story | Notable | ||
The Kugel Valley Klezmer Band | Notable | ||||
In Our Image: God's First Creatures | Notable | ||||
Annushka's Voyage | Notable | ||||
Older Reader | Donna Jo Napoli | Stones in Water | Winner | ||
The Treasure in the Tiny Blue Tin | Honor | ||||
Sonia Levitin | The Singing Mountain | Honor | |||
Anita Lobel | No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War | Honor | |||
Clouds of Glory | Notable | ||||
Johanna Hurwitz | Mary Azarian | Faraway Summer | Notable | ||
Eric A. Kimmel | A Hanukkah Treasury | Notable | |||
Jane Kurtz | The Storyteller's Beads | Notable | |||
Kathryn Lasky | Dreams of the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, A Jewish Immigrant Girl | Notable | |||
Carol Matas | Greater Than Angels | Notable | |||
Israel: The Founding of a Modern Nation | Notable | ||||
Masada | Notable | ||||
Teen Reader | Walk the Dark Streets | Notable | |||
Leonard Everett Fisher | To Bigotry No Sanction: The Story of the Oldest Synagogue in America | Notable | |||
Gloria Miklowitz | Masada: The Last Fortress | Notable | |||
Schoschana Rabinovici, translated by | Thanks to My Mother | Notable | |||
Kathryn Winter | Katarina | Notable | |||
1997 | Younger Reader | Marjorie Priceman | When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street | Winner | |
When Jessie Came Across the Sea | Honor | ||||
On Passover | Notable | ||||
On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur | Notable | ||||
Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | Jonah and the Two Great Fish | Notable | ||
The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes | Notable | ||||
When | Notable | ||||
Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors | Notable | ||||
Annie's Shabbat | Notable | ||||
Kathryn Lasky | Marven of the Great North Woods | Notable | |||
J. Patrick Lewis | The Boat of Many Rooms | Notable | |||
Elisabeth | Notable | ||||
Sheldon Oberman | By the Hanukkah Light | Notable | |||
Francine Prose | Mark Podwal | The Angel's Mistake: Stories of Chelm | Notable | ||
Purim Play | Notable | ||||
Gerald Fitzgerald | In My Pocket | Notable | |||
The Never-Ending Greenness | Notable | ||||
The Two Brothers: A Legend of Jerusalem | Notable | ||||
Brian Wildsmith | Brian Wildsmith | Joseph | Notable | ||
Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Pearl's Marigolds for Grandpa | Notable | ||
Older Reader | The Mysterious Visitor: Stories of the Prophet Elijah | Winner | |||
Livia Bitton-Jackson | I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust | Honor | |||
Two Cents and a Milk Bottle | Notable | ||||
Ilene Cooper | The Dead Sea Scrolls | Notable | |||
Kirk Douglas | The Broken Mirror: A Novella | Notable | |||
Alison Leslie Gold | Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend | Notable | |||
While the Candles Burn: Eight Stories for Hanukkah | Notable | ||||
Gloria Kamen | Hidden Music: The Life of Fanny Mendelssohn | Notable | |||
Jan Mark | God's Story: How God Made Mankind | Notable | |||
Carol Matas | The Garden | Notable | |||
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story | Notable | ||||
The Koufax Dilemma | Notable | ||||
Of Heroes, Hooks, and Heirlooms | Notable | ||||
A Place Not Home | Notable | ||||
Teen Reader | Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle | Notable | |||
Sacred Shadows | Notable | ||||
1996 | Younger Reader | Shalom, Haver: Goodbye, Friend | Winner | ||
Francine Prose | Mark Podwal | Dybbuk: A Story Made in Heaven | Honor | ||
Norman Gorbaty | Becky and Benny Thank God | Notable | |||
Hirsh's Secret: A Baal Shem Tov Story | Notable | ||||
Gary Clement | Gary Clement | Just Stay Put | Notable | ||
Dušan Petričić | Bone Button Borscht | Notable | |||
Katherine Paterson | The Angel and the Donkey | Notable | |||
The Jewish Children's Bible: Genesis | Notable | ||||
Older Reader | Brian Pinkney | When I Left My Village | Winner | ||
Diane Wolkstein | Esther’s Story | Honor | |||
God's Mailbox: More Stories about Stories in the Bible | Notable | ||||
Celebrating Hanukkah | Notable | ||||
Hanneke Ippisch | Sky | Notable | |||
Fitting In | Notable | ||||
and | Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story | Notable | |||
Abraham Rabinovich | Teddy Kollek: Builder of Jerusalem | Notable | |||
Trina Schart Hyman | The Golem | Notable | |||
Howard Schwartz and , editors | The Wonder Child and Other Jewish Fairy Tales | Notable | |||
Women of Valor: Stories of Great Jewish Women Who Helped Shape the Twentieth Century | Notable | ||||
Elie Wiesel: A Voice for Humanity | Notable | ||||
Dvora Waysman | Back of Beyond: A Bar Mitzvah Journey | Notable | |||
David Wisniewski | David Wisniewski | Golem | Notable | ||
Jane Breskin Zalben | Unfinished Dreams | Notable | |||
Teen Reader | The Amazing Life of Moe Berg: Catcher, Scholar, Spy | Notable | |||
Vivian Grey | Moe Berg: The Spy Behind Home Plate | Notable | |||
Gerald Hausman | Night Flight | Notable | |||
Hadley Irwin | Sarah with an H | Notable | |||
Carol Matas | After the War | Notable | |||
Carolyn Meyer | Gideon's People | Notable | |||
Behind the Bedroom Wall | Notable | ||||
1995 | Younger Reader | Star of Fear, Star of Hope | Winner | ||
Bill Farnsworth | The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate | Honor | |||
David A. Adler | One Yellow Daffodil | Notable | |||
A Yom Kippur Think | Notable | ||||
Night Lights: A Sukkot Story | Notable | ||||
When a Grandparent Dies | Notable | ||||
When Solomon Was King | Notable | ||||
The Matzah That Papa Brought Home | Notable | ||||
Starlight and Candles | Notable | ||||
Steve Sanfield | Strudel, Strudel, Strudel | Notable | |||
The Tie Man's Miracle: A Chanukkah Tale | Notable | ||||
Passover Magic | Notable | ||||
The Golden City: Jerusalem's 3000 Years | Notable | ||||
Older Reader | Ida Vos | Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon | Winner | ||
Carolyn Meyer | Drummers of Jericho | Honor | |||
David A. Adler | Child of the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable | |||
Roy Doty | Listen to the Trees | Notable | |||
and | Ezra Jack Keats: A Biography with Illustrations | Notable | |||
Marc Gellman and Thomas Hartman | Joseph A. Smith | How Do You Spell God?: Answers to the Big Questions from Around the World | Notable | ||
Bat Mitzvah | Notable | ||||
Eric A. Kimmel | Trina Schart Hyman | The Adventures of Hershel of Ostropol | Notable | ||
Eric A. Kimmel | Bar Mitzvah | Notable | |||
Stephanie McPherson | Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein | Notable | |||
Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Life of a Storyteller | Notable | ||||
Mark Podwal | Mark Podwal | Golem: A Giant Made of Mud | Notable | ||
and , editors | Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust | Notable | |||
The Rose Horse | Notable | ||||
Nava Semel, translated by Hillel Halkin | Flying Lessons | Notable | |||
Yoni Netanyahu: Commando at Entebbe | Notable | ||||
Life in the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable | ||||
Xin Xu, with | Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng | Notable | |||
Jane Yolen | And Twelve Chinese Acrobats | Notable | |||
Teen Reader | Gila Almagor, translated by Hillel Schenker | Under the Domim Tree | Notable | ||
, et al. | Parallel Journeys | Notable | |||
Lynne Reid Banks | Broken Bridge | Notable | |||
Look to the Hills | Notable | ||||
But Can the Phoenix Sing? | Notable | ||||
Days of Judgment: The World War II War Crimes Trials | Notable | ||||
Lesléa Newman | Fat Chance | Notable | |||
Uri Orlev, translated by Hillel Halkin | The Lady with the Hat | Notable | |||
1994 | Younger Reader | Sheldon Oberman | Ted Lewin | The Always Prayer Shawl | Winner |
Brian Pinkney | Day of Delight: A Jewish Sabbath in Ethiopia | Honor | |||
Northern Lights: A Hanukkah Story | Notable | ||||
After the Flood | Notable | ||||
Ted Rand | Don't Forget | Notable | |||
Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | Tikvah Means Hope | Notable | ||
Matzah Ball | Notable | ||||
, (adapter) | Ruth Heller | King Solomon and the Bee | Notable | ||
Older Reader | Herbert Tauss | The Shadow Children | Winner | ||
One Foot Ashore | Honor | ||||
Karen Ackerman | The Night Crossing | Notable | |||
David A. Adler | Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust | Notable | |||
Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust | Notable | ||||
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz | The Old Brown Suitcase | Notable | |||
Barbara Cohen | Make a Wish Molly | Notable | |||
and | Myriam Mendilow, Mother of Jerusalem | Notable | |||
Malka Drucker | The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays | Notable | |||
The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion | Notable | ||||
Jacqueline Jules | Grey Striped Shirt: How Grandma and Grandpa Survived the Holocaust | Notable | |||
Sonia Levitin | Escape from Egypt | Notable | |||
1993 | Younger Reader | The Uninvited Guest | Winner | ||
Laurie Dolphin | Neve Shalom Wahat Al-Salam: Oasis of Peace | Honor | |||
and | Joel Iskowitz | A Candle for Grandpa | Honor | ||
The Kingdom of the Singing Birds | Notable | ||||
The Gift | Notable | ||||
Blessed Are You | Notable | ||||
Leonard Everett Fisher | Leonard Everett Fisher | David and Goliath | Notable | ||
The Magician's Visit | Notable | ||||
God Must Like Cookies, Too | Notable | ||||
Pot Luck | Notable | ||||
Light: The First Seven Days | Notable | ||||
(compiler) | Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah | Notable | |||
Stone Men | Notable | ||||
Older Reader | Carol Matas | Sworn Enemies | Winner | ||
Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Stopped Death | Honor | ||||
Malka Drucker and | Jacob's Rescue | Notable | |||
Sonia Levitin | The Golem and the Dragon Girl | Notable | |||
Sweet Notes, Sour Notes | Notable | ||||
Uri Orlev, translated by Hillel Halkin | Lydia, Queen of Palestine | Notable | |||
Danny Siegel | Tell Me a Mitzvah | Notable | |||
Behind the Secret Window | Notable | ||||
and , translated by and | Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary | Notable | |||
Ida Vos | Anna is Still Here | Notable | |||
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Notable | ||||
1992 | Younger Reader | Phoebe Gilman | Phoebe Gilman | Something from Nothing | Winner |
Jeremy’s Dreidel | Honor | ||||
Esther Hautzig | Riches | Honor | |||
Eric A. Kimmel | Leonard Everett Fisher | The Spotted Pony: A Collection of Hanukkah Stories | Honor | ||
Journey to the Golden Land | Honor | ||||
Howard Schwartz and Barbara Rush | The Sabbath Lion: A Jewish Folktale from Algeria | Honor | |||
Jerry Pinkney | David's Songs: His Psalms and Their Story | Notable | |||
In the Month of Kislev: A Story of Hanukkah | Notable | ||||
Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | Mrs. Katz and Tush | Notable | ||
Michael J. Rosen | Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas | Notable | |||
Joel Iskowitz | Joshua's Dream | Notable | |||
Older Reader | Karen Hesse | Letters from Rifka | Winner | ||
Robert Cormier | Tunes for Bears to Dance to | Honor | |||
Eilís Dillon | Children of Bach | Notable | |||
Robert Lehrman | The Store That Mama Built | Notable | |||
Joan Lowery Nixon | Ellis Island: Land of Hope | Notable | |||
Seymour Rossel | The Holocaust: The World and the Jews, 1933-1945 | Notable | |||
Phyllis Shalant | Shalom, Geneva Peace | Notable | |||
1991 | Younger Reader | Daddy’s Chair | Winner | ||
Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale | Winner | ||||
Sholem Aleichem, selected and translated by | Around the Table: Family Stories of Sholom Aleichem | Notable | |||
A Baker's Portrait | Notable | ||||
Just Enough Room | Notable | ||||
James E. Ransome | All the Lights of the Night | Notable | |||
Appleblossom | Notable | ||||
Toby Belfer Never Had a Christmas Tree | Notable | ||||
Mary Morgan | Buba Leah and Her Paper Children | Notable | |||
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 World | Winner | |
Marc Chagall, Painter of Dreams | Notable | ||||
Marilyn Kaye | The Atonement of Mindy Wise | Notable | |||
Waiting for Anya | Notable | ||||
Uri Orlev, translated by Hillel Halkin | The Man from the Other Side | Notable | |||
Steve Sanfield | The Feather Merchants and Other Tales of the Fools of Chelm | Notable | |||
Ida Vos, translated by and | Hide and Seek | Notable | |||
Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | The Fortuneteller in 5B | Notable | ||
1990 | Younger Reader | Eric A. Kimmel | The Chanukah Guest | Winner | |
Judah Who Always Said "No." | Honor | ||||
Jeanette Winter | The World’s Birthday: A Rosh Hashana Story | Honor | |||
Sophie's Name | Notable | ||||
Amy Schwartz | Fancy Aunt Jess | Notable | |||
The Ring and the Window Seat | Notable | ||||
Latkes and Applesauce | Notable | ||||
Lilly Rivlin | When Will the Fighting Stop?: A Child's View of Jerusalem | Notable | |||
The Little Old Man and His Dreams | Notable | ||||
Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Happy Passover, Rosie and Leo and Blossom's Sukkah | Notable | ||
Older Reader | Adèle Geras | My Grandmother’s Stories | Winner | ||
Shadow of the Wall | Honor | ||||
The Cat Who Escaped from Steerage | Honor | ||||
Barbara Barrie | Lone Star | Notable | |||
Menorahs, Mezuzas, and Other Jewish Symbols | Notable | ||||
and | The Answered Prayer and Other Yemenite Folktales | Notable | |||
The House on Walenska Street | Notable | ||||
Carol Matas | Code Name Kris | Notable | |||
Independence Avenue | Notable | ||||
Yale Strom | A Tree Stands Still: Jewish Youth in Eastern Europe Today | Notable | |||
Hear O Israel: A Story of the Warsaw Ghetto | Notable | ||||
The Streets Are Paved with Gold | Notable | ||||
1989 | Younger Reader | Berchick | Winner | ||
Grandma’s Soup | Honor | ||||
Eric A. Kimmel | Trina Schart Hyman | Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins | Honor | ||
The Old Synagogue | Honor | ||||
David A. Adler | Malke's Secret Recipe: A Chanukah Story from Chelm | Notable | |||
The Story of Hanukkah | Notable | ||||
Not Yet, Elijah | Notable | ||||
ABC: The Alef-Bet Book, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem | Notable | ||||
Mommy Never Went to Hebrew School | Notable | ||||
Marilyn Singer | Minnie's Yom Kippur Birthday | Notable | |||
Older Reader | Lois Lowry | Number the Stars | Winner | ||
Pink Slippers, Bat Mitzvah Blues | Honor | ||||
Sonia Levitin | Silver Days | Honor | |||
Carol Matas | Lisa’s War | Honor | |||
David A. Adler | We Remember the Holocaust | Notable | |||
Feathers in the Wind | Notable | ||||
Leonard Everett Fisher | Leonard Everett Fisher | The Wailing Wall | Notable | ||
Marc Gellman | Does God Have a Big Toe? | Notable | |||
Jane Breskin Zalben | Earth to Andrew O. Blechman | Notable | |||
Teen Reader | Father of the Orphans: The Story of Janusz Korczak | Notable | |||
Norman Finkelstein | The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New World | Notable | |||
The World of the Bible for Young Readers | Notable | ||||
Plots and Players | Notable | ||||
Beyond Safe Boundaries | Notable | ||||
Efraim Sevela | We Were Not Like Other People | Notable | |||
1988 | Younger Reader | Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | The Keeping Quilt | Winner |
From Head to Toe: A Book About You | Honor | ||||
The Ark | Honor | ||||
Jane Breskin Zalben | Jane Breskin Zalben | Beni’s First Chanukah | Honor | ||
and | and | Rachel and Mischa | Notable | ||
And Shira Imagined | Notable | ||||
Barbara Cohen | The Donkey's Story: A Bible Story | Notable | |||
Justin's Hebrew Name | Notable | ||||
Seymour Chwast | Just Enough Is Plenty: A Hanukkah Tale | Notable | |||
Older Reader | Jane Yolen | The Devil’s Arithmetic | Winner | ||
Out of Many Waters | Honor | ||||
Gary Provost and | David and Max | Honor | |||
A Kid's Catalog of Israel | Notable | ||||
The Mystery of the Coins | Notable | ||||
Richard Egielski | Friends Forever | Notable | |||
Fire! The Library Is Burning}} | Notable | ||||
And Then There Were Four | Notable | ||||
Johanna Hurwitz | Anne Frank: Life in Hiding | Notable | |||
Teen Reader | Milton Meltzer | Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust | Honor | ||
The Jewish American Heritage | Notable | ||||
Emma Lazarus | Notable | ||||
Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust | Notable | ||||
Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France | Notable | ||||
1987 | Younger Reader | David A. Adler | The Number on My Grandfather’s Arm | Winner | |
Apple Pie and Onions | Notable | ||||
Barbara Cohen | Anatoly Ivanov | Even Higher | Notable | ||
Gittel and the Bell | Notable | ||||
Tomie DePaola | Tomie DePaola | Queen Esther | Notable | ||
My Sister's Wedding | Notable | ||||
Older Reader | Sonia Levitin | The Return | Winner | ||
Esther | Notable | ||||
Exodus | Notable | ||||
Yossi Tries to Help God | Notable | ||||
Joseph's Wardrobe | Notable | ||||
Barbara Cohen | The Christmas Revolution | Notable | |||
Barbara Cohen | Martin Lemelman | First Fast | Notable | ||
Karla Kuskin | Jerusalem, Shining Still | Notable | |||
The Return of Morris Schumsky | Notable | ||||
and | Miracle Meals: Eight Nights of Food 'n Fun for Chanukah | Notable | |||
Teen Reader | Also Known as Sadzia! The Belly Dancer! | Notable | |||
Malka Drucker | Eliezer Ben-Yehuda: The Father of Modern Hebrew | Notable | |||
David Gross | A Justice for All the People: Louis D. Brandeis | Notable | |||
Daughter of My People: Henrietta Szold and Hadassah | Notable | ||||
Lawrence Kushner | The Book of Miracles: A Young Person's Guide to Jewish Spirituality | Notable | |||
(editor) | The Young Reader's Encyclopedia of Jewish History | Notable | |||
Forever My Jerusalem | Notable | ||||
1986 | Younger Reader | Joseph Who Loved the Sabbath | Winner | ||
Warwick Hutton | Warwick Hutton | Moses in the Bulrushes | Notable | ||
Ima on the Bima: My Mommy is a Rabbi | Notable | ||||
The Big Sukkah | Notable | ||||
Amy Schwartz | Amy Schwartz | Yossel Zissel and the Wisdom of Chelm | Notable | ||
Older Reader | Beyond the High White Wall | Winner | |||
Robert L. Wolfe and | Cooking the Israeli Way | Notable | |||
Yossi Abulafia | Aviva's Piano | Notable | |||
Sound the Shofar: The Story and Meaning of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur | Notable | ||||
Paul Cowan | A Torah is Written | Notable | |||
(editor) | Poems for Jewish Holidays | Notable | |||
The Narrowest Bar Mitzvah | Notable | ||||
Hannah Szenes: A Song of Light | Notable | ||||
The Great Jewish Quiz Book | Notable | ||||
Teen Reader | Donn Kushner | Uncle Jacob's Ghost Story | Notable | ||
Sigmund Freud: Doctor of the Mind | Notable | ||||
I Lift My Lamp: Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty | Notable | ||||
One Man's Valor: Leo Baeck and the Holocaust | Notable | ||||
Monday in Odessa | Notable | ||||
The Floating Minyan of Pirate's Cove | Notable | ||||
1985 | Younger Reader | Brothers | Winner | ||
The Story of Mimmy and Simmy | Notable | ||||
Leon Garfield | Michael Bragg | The King in the Garden | Notable | ||
I Love Passover | Notable | ||||
My First Book of Mitzvos | Notable | ||||
Diane Goode | Watch the Stars Come Out | Notable | |||
Margot Zemach | The Sign in Mendel's Window | Notable | |||
Who Will Lead the Kiddush? | Notable | ||||
A Tree Full of Mitzvos | Notable | ||||
and | The Very Best Place for a Penny | Notable | |||
Glen Rounds | Glen Rounds | Washday on Noah's Ark | Notable | ||
Joel Iskowitz | Joshua's Dream | Notable | |||
Older Reader | Ike and Mama and the Seven Surprises | Winner | |||
Ask Another Question: The Story and Meaning of Passover | Notable | ||||
Petra Mathers | Yossi Asks the Angels for Help | Notable | |||
Eth Clifford | The Remembering Box | Notable | |||
Barbara Cohen | Secret Grove | Notable | |||
The Secret Spinner: Tales of Rav Gedalia | Notable | ||||
Norman Finkelstein | and | Remember Not to Forget | Notable | ||
& | The Yanov Torah | Notable | |||
and | The Alef-Bet of Jewish Values: Code Words of Jewish Life | Notable | |||
Toba at the Hands of a Thief | Notable | ||||
Shnook the Peddler | Notable | ||||
Arthur Waskow, , and | Before There Was a Before | Notable | |||
Teen Reader | One Way to Ansonia | Notable | |||
In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944 | Notable | ||||
The Dream Keeper | Notable | ||||
Does Anyone Here Know the Way to Thirteen? | Notable | ||||
Leonie Ossowski | Star without a Sky | Notable | |||
Bar Mitzvah | Notable | ||||
1984 | Younger Reader | Amy Schwartz | Amy Schwartz | Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks | Winner |
Older Reader | Uri Orlev | The Island on Bird Street | Winner | ||
1983 | Younger Reader | Bubby, Me, and Memories | Winner | ||
Older Reader | Rose Zar | In the Mouth of the Wolf | Winner | ||
1982 | Younger Reader | The Castle on Hester Street | Winner | ||
Older Reader | Marilyn Sachs | Call Me Ruth | Winner | ||
1981 | Younger Reader | Barbara Cohen | Yussel’s Prayer | Winner | |
Older Reader | Kathryn Lasky | The Night Journey | Winner | ||
1980 | Leonard Everett Fisher | Leonard Everett Fisher | A Russian Farewell | Winner | |
1979 | Ike and Mama and the Block Wedding | Winner | |||
1978 | Doris Orgel | The Devil in Vienna | Winner | ||
1977 | Exit from Home | Winner | |||
1976 | Milton Meltzer | Never to Forget | Winner | ||
1975 | Waiting for Mama | Winner | |||
1974 | No Award Given | ||||
1973 | Uncle Misha’s Partisans | Winner | |||
1972 | No Award Given | ||||
1971 | No Award Given | ||||
1970 | The Year | Winner | |||
1969 | Our Eddie | Winner | |||
1968 | Esther Hautzig | The Endless Steppe | Winner |
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."[11] Beginning in 2018, the award became biennial instead of periodic.
Recipients[]
Year | Category |
---|---|
2022 | Jane Yolen[12] |
2020 | Lesléa Newman |
2018 | Harold Grinspoon and PJ Library |
2004 | Eric Kimmel |
2002 | and |
1997 | |
1989 | |
1984 | |
1981 | Barbara Cohen |
1980 | Sadie Rose Weilerstein |
1979 | |
1978 | Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family |
1972 | |
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.[13]
Award Year | Title | Published Title | Author | Publisher | Publication Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | Cats and Honey Cake | ||||
2019 | A Corner of the World | ||||
2018 | The Seventh Handmaiden | ||||
2016 | Honey and Me | ||||
2015 | Viva, Rose | ||||
2013 | Freestyle | ||||
2011 | In Search of Lottie | ||||
2010 | On the Run | ||||
2009 | When the Hurricane Came to New Orleans | When the Hurricane Came | 2012 | ||
2008 | Stealing the Show | ||||
2007 | Getting Rid of Jeremy | ||||
2004 | Cara's Kitchen | Julia's Kitchen | Brenda A. Ferber | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 2006 |
2002 | A Pickpocket's Tale | A Pickpocket's Tale | Random House | 2006 | |
1999 | Zayda Was a Cowboy | Zayda Was a Cowboy | Jewish Publication Society | 2005 | |
1998 | Devorah | The Night of the Burning: Devorah's Story | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 2006 | |
1997 | When the Soldiers Were Gone | When the Soldiers Were Gone | G.P. Putnam's Sons | 1999 | |
1997 | All Star Brothers | All Star Season | Kar-Ben | 2006 | |
1996 | Passover Promise | ||||
1995 | After I Said No | ||||
1994 | Of Heroes, Hooks and Heirlooms | Of Heroes, Hooks and Heirlooms | Jewish Publication Society | 1996 | |
1993 | The Treasure in the Tiny Blue Tin | The Treasure in the Tiny Blue Tin | Texas Christian University Press | 1998 | |
1991 | Garden of the Gentle Giant | ||||
1991 | Leaving Egypt | Lois Roisman | |||
1991 | Tamar's Cat | Aviva Cantor | |||
1990 | Rabbi Aaron's Treasure | Reb Aharon's Treasure | Targum/Feldheim | 1993 | |
1990 | Operation Dewey | Operation Dewey | 2002 | ||
1988 | Borders | Suzi Wizowaty | |||
1987 | The Streets Are Paved with Gold | The Streets Are Paved with Gold | Harbinger House | 1990 | |
1986 | Cubs of the Lion of Judah | ||||
1985 | Spirit |
References[]
Citations[]
- ^ Pinchuck 2008, p. 27.
- ^ Pinchuck 2008, p. 27-28.
- ^ a b c Pinchuck 2008, p. 28.
- ^ a b Pinchuck 2008, p. 29-30.
- ^ "2016 Sydney Taylor Book Awards Announcement". AJL News. 6 (1): 1. 2016 – via EBSCOhost.
- ^ Estrin, Heidi; Kamin, Rachel (2007). "The Sydney Taylor Book Award". Book Links. 16 (3): 55–58 – via EBSCOhost.
- ^ "How to submit books". Sydney Taylor Book Award. Association of Jewish Libraries. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "Sydney Taylor Book Awards (1971-2021" (PDF). The Association of Jewish Libraries. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
- ^ "Sydney Taylor Book Awards" (PDF). The Association of Jewish LIbraris. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- ^ "Sydney Taylor Book Awards" (PDF). The Association of Jewish LIbraris. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- ^ a b "SYDNEY TAYLOR BODY-OF-WORK AWARD" (PDF). Association of Jewish Libraries. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ Morales, Macey. "American Library Association announces 2022 Youth Media Award winners". American Library Association. American Library Association.
- ^ "Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award". Association of Jewish Libraries. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "SYDNEY TAYLOR MANUSCRIPT AWARD WINNERS". Association of Jewish Libraries. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
Sources[]
- Pinchuck, Kathe (July 2008). "Recognizing Jewish Children's Literature For Forty Years: The Sydney Taylor Book Award". Judaica Librarianship. 14: 27–34. doi:10.14263/2330-2976.1071.
External links[]
- Children's literary awards
- Awards established in 1968
- Jewish literary awards