The Whole Megillah- Mid-Week Field Notes–March 22, 2023Some very quick things: Have a good week!Barbara Krasner
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- Mid-Week Field Notes–February 22, 2023Some very quick things: Have a good week!Barbara Krasner
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- 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Awards | Honey and Me by Meira DrazinHonor Book in Middle-Grade Category: Honey and Me by Meira Drazin (Scholastic, 2022, 304 pp.) The Whole Megillah (TWM): Mazel tov on your award! I’m so delighted to get to know you better.Meira Drazin (MD): Hi Barbara, thanks so much … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Author’s Notebook | The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights by Kitty ZeldisZeldis, Kitty. The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights. New York: HarperCollins, 2022. 345 pages. Writing the Past (WTP): What motivated you to write Dressmakers of Prospect Heights?Kitty Zeldis (KZ): I had long been interested in New Orleans, a place that figures importantly in … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–February 1, 2023Some very quick things: Have a good week!Barbara Krasner
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Report from Prague | Finding Franz Kafka
It’s difficult to separate Franz Kafka from Prague and Prague from Franz Kafka. I’ll admit I haven’t really read his work since college when I argued with a college professor about the type of insect into which Gregor Samsa metamorphosed. … Continue reading
Posted in Report from Prague
Tagged Franz Kafka, Prague, Prague photos, Prague Summer Program
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Book Review | OyMG by Amy Fellner Dominy
OyMG by Amy Fellner Dominy Published by Walker & Company, 2011, 247 pages In OyMG, fourteen-year-old orator Ellie Taylor attends a Christian camp with the goal of winning a scholarship to Benedict’s, a school with an awesome oratory program. There’s … Continue reading
Book Review | The Golem’s Latkes
The Golem’s Latkes Adapted by Eric A. Kimmel and illustrated by Aaron Jasinski Marshall Cavendish Children’s, 2011 (October) The good stuff A new take, a new classic — A new take on the classic tale of the Prague Golem. This … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Eric Kimmel, golem, golem of prague, Marshall Cavendish, Rabbi Loew
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Reminder | The Picture Book Manuscript Winner Could Be You!
Only two weeks remain to submit your manuscript to The Whole Megillah Picture Book Contest Make the end of your summer sizzle by finishing up your Jewish-themed picture book manuscript and submitting it to the first-ever The Whole Megillah Picture … Continue reading
Posted in Contests
Tagged Jewish manuscript contest, Jewish picture books, Joni Sussman, picture book contest
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Report from Prague | New Jewish Cemetery
Although I’m back in the States, I’d still like to share some of my Judaic experiences in the Czech Republic. On the Tuesday and Wednesday of my last week in Prague, I took the Metro Line A to the Želivského … Continue reading
Revise Your Children’s Book Manuscript over Labor Day Weekend
Take The Whole Megillah Challenge! Revise your children’s book manuscript over Labor Day weekend I will be spending Labor Day weekend revising a YA historical. Because I won a fiction scholarship and went to Prague for the month of July … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged book revision, Labor Day weekend revision challenge, Stephen Roxburgh
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A Woman of Valor Will Not Be Hushed
A member of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee alerted us the other day about an item in the Huffington Post by Eishes Chayil, the author of the Honor Book, Hush. I’m providing the link. Orthodox Jewish Child Abuse: Shattering … Continue reading
Editors Roundtable | Margery Cuyler, Marshall Cavendish/Shofar Books
Here is another video from the Editors Roundtable filmed at the 2011 Highlights Foundation workshop, Writing Jewish-themed Children’s Books on May 16. This video features publisher Margery Cuyler of Marshall Cavendish/Shofar Books with some comments from Natalie Blitt, former director … Continue reading
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