Blog Tour 2012: The Sydney Taylor Book Awards

The Sydney Taylor Book Award honors new books for children and teens that exemplify the highest literary standards while authentically portraying the Jewish experience.  The award memorializes Sydney Taylor, author of the classic All-of-a-Kind Family series.

The Sydney Taylor Book Award will be celebrating and showcasing its 2012 gold and silver medalists and a few selected Notables with a Blog Tour, February 5-10, 2012!  Interviews with winning authors and illustrators will appear on the following blogs:

THE 2012 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARD BLOG TOUR

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Susan Campbell Bartoletti, author of Naamah and the Ark at Night

Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category at Ima On & Off the Bima

Holly Meade, illustrator of Naamah and the Ark at Night

Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category at Into the Wardrobe

Shelly Sommer, author of Hammerin' Hank Greenberg, Baseball Pioneer
Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category at Great Kid Books 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Marcia Vaughan, author of Irena's Jar of Secrets

Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category at Shelf-Employed

Ron Mazellan, illustrator of Irena's Jar of Secrets 

Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category at The Children's War

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Trina Robbins, author of Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer

Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category at Bildungsroman

Anne Timmons (and possibly Mo Oh), illustrators of Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category at Gathering Books

Morris Gleitzman, author of Then

Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category at The 3R's

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Michael Rosen, author of Chanukah Lights

Award winner in the Younger Readers Category at A Chair, a Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy

Robert Sabuda, illustrator/paper engineer of Chanukah Lights

Award winner in the Younger Readers Category at Practically Paradise

Susan Goldman Rubin, author of Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein
Award Winner in the Older Readers Category at Cynsations

Robert Sharenow, author of The Berlin Boxing Club
Award winner in the Teen Readers Category at Jewish Books for Children

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Durga Yael Bernhard, author and illustrator of Around the World in One Shabbat
Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category at Frume Sarah's World

Shirley Vernick, author of The Blood Lie
Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category at The Fourth Musketeer

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Eric Kimmel, author of The Golem's Latkes

Notable Book and winner of the National Jewish Book Award at Ann Koffsky's Blog

Gloria Spielman, author of Marcel Marceau, Master of Mime
Notable Book and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award at Shannon and the Sunshine Band

Richard Michelson, author of Lipman Pike, America's First Home Run King

Notable Book and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award at Blue Thread

Sydney Taylor Award Winners - Wrap Up

All Winners, All Categories

at The Whole Megillah