Also referencing Tolstoy, Marisha Pessl reviewed my picture book I HATE EVERYONE www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/b...

"Harold (and His Purple Crayon) was just trying to get home the whole time. Use your secret weapon, your creativity. That's all I'm trying to do when I make a book. Trying to get home, taking my time." Bryan Collier #scbwisummer25

Eighth-grader Melanie whose mom suffers extreme anxiety after an accident, finally has a friend who understands, Dorit, whose dad suffers from his experience in the 1967 SixDayWar in Deborah Lakritz's THINGS THAT SHIMMER. @lilithmagazine.bsky.social lilith.org/articles/mor... @deblak1.bsky.social

A large family’s chaotic seder goes on for six months because they’re missing the afikomen to complete it. ONE LITTLE GOAT: A PASSOVER CATASTROPHE, a graphic novel by DaraHorn illustrated by @theo-ellsworth.bsky.social is highlighted in @lilithmagazine.bsky.social lilith.org/articles/mor...

In the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a mother shows her 12-year-old daughter two pieces of chocolate they will save for when most needed. TWO PIECES OF CHOCOLATE by Kathy Kacer illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard, highlighted in @lilithmagazine.bsky.social #KidLit lilith.org/articles/mor...

Flying a paper airplane and doing a handstand in the aisle at Friday night services, RACHEL FRIEDMAN BREAKS THE RULES in their early chapter book by @sarahkapit.bsky.social, illustrated by @genevievekote.bsky.social, highlighted in @lilithmagazine.bsky.social lilith.org/articles/mor...

“How had being pregnant turned me from a law-abiding citizen who just wanted to go to college to a girl who had to watch what she googled and lie to her period app...?” BIOLOGY LESSONS, a young adult novel by Melissa Kantor, highlighted in @lilithmagazine.bsky.social lilith.org/articles/mor...

“Some say that messy people’s bedrooms are where the legends about monsters under the bed were born.”
I'M A MESS: A GUIDE TO A MESSY LIFE by Einat Tsarfati, translated from the Hebrew by Annette Appel, is a graphic self-acceptance book. lilith.org/articles/fem...

Bold, outspoken trailblazer, Congresswoman Bella Abzug (1920–1998) was never a sugar-and-spice girl. ABZUGLUTELY! BATTLING, BELLOWING BELLA ABZUG, a picture book by @saraharonson.bsky.social, illustrated by Andrea D’Aquino, tells her story.
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WHAT JEWISH LOOKS LIKE by @teachandtransform.bsky.social and @carolinekpritchard.bsky.social, illustrated by Iris Gottlieb, includes a gun control activist at age 11 among 36 diverse Jews in a stereotype-defying anthology for middle-grade and older readers. lilith.org/articles/fem...

Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and psychologist, Dr.Edith Eger, in a young adult edition of her memoir, THE BALLERINA OF AUSCHWITZ, hopes readers will be inspired to transcend victimhood & "choose to dance though life, even in hellish circumstances.” lilith.org/articles/fem...

In LET IT GLOW, Marissa Meyer & @joannelevy.bsky.social's middle-grade novel, two 12-year-old identical twins, adopted separately at birth, one by a Christian family, the other by a biracial interfaith couple raising their family Jewish, discover each other. lilith.org/articles/fem...

In MIXED-UP MOONCAKES by @christinamatula.bsky.social, Erica Cohen Lyons & @tracysubisak.bsky.social, Ruby shops with her Chinese grandma for persimmons, pomelos & red chrysanthemums for the Mid-Autumn festival, and with her Jewish grandpa for lulav & etrog for Sukkot. lilith.org/articles/fem...

In their picture book MANY THINGS AT ONCE by @veerawrites.bsky.social, illustrated by Nadia Alam, the narrator is told by her parents she is lucky to be both Indian and American, both Jewish and Hindu; sometimes feels she is not “enough.” lilith.org/articles/fem...

I LIKE YOUR CHUTZPAH by Suzy Ultman affectionately introduces a few favorite Yiddish expressions one might say admiringly to a young or not-so-young loved one, and is highlighted in lilith.org/articles/fem...

Happy to know BYE, CAR is included to benefit @booktrust.org.uk

I feel so happy to hold in my hands @lianafinck.bsky.social’s new picture book for young kids and all of us, MIXED FEELINGS. Also I love seeing her brilliant drawings with touches of color.

<Susan Rich at Little, Brown has acquired world rights to Kindergarten Gets Ready, a picture book by Naomi Danis (l.), illustrated by Pete Oswald, in which readers are introduced to the classroom through the eyes of a kindergarten teacher preparing for the first day of school...>cont'd in comments

Deborah Grenn quoted Leonard Bernstein, and added : <just try tackling a task you’ve been avoiding when you only have 10 or 15 minutes before you have to leave home or go into a meeting. You might be amazed.>