The Jewish Book Council announced the 2010 National Jewish Book Award winners today.
Here are the winners in the children’s and young adult literature categories:
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Winner:
Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania (Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Haya Leah Molnar
Finalists:
Rabbi Harvey vs. The Wisdom Kid: A Graphic Novel of Dueling Jewish Folktales in the Wild West (Jewish Lights Publishing)
Steve Sheinkin
The Orphan Rescue (Second Story Press)
Anne Dublin
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank (Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group) Elaine Marie Alphin
Illustrated Children’s Books–Louis Posner Memorial Award
Winner:
The Rooster Prince of Breslov (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Ann Redisch Stampler; Eugene Yelchin, illus.
Finalists:
Modeh Ani: A Good Morning Book (EKS Publishing)
Adapted by Sarah Gershman; Kristina Swarner, illus.
Feivel’s Flying Horses (Kar-Ben Publishing)
Heidi Smith Hyde; Johanna van der Sterre, illus.
The Jewish Book Council also bestowed the IMPACT award on Harold Grinspoon, creator of The PJ Library.
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