Mazal Tov to the 2009 winners of the Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Book Awards.
The Sydney Taylor Book Awards honour Jewish books for children and this year there are a slew of winners. Among those in the top honours are:
The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Younger Readers:
New Year at the Pier: A Rosh Hashanah Story by April Halprin Wayland with illustrations by Stephane Jorish
The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Older Readers:
The Importance of Wings by Robin Friedman
The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Teen Readers:
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle
To find out more about the winners, visit Scribblers’ very own Barbara Bietz’s Web site. Barbara will take over as Chairperson for the 2010 awards.
We also wish a hearty Mazal Tov to the National Jewish Book Award Winners. The JJ Greenberg Memorial Award for Fiction was won by Joseph Kertes for Gratitude: A Novel, while the poetry award went to Alicia Suskin Ostriker for The Book of Seventy.
The winners will be honoured at a ceremony on March 9 at the Center for Jewish History in New York. For a full list of winners, visit the Jewish Book Council blog.
This week we have on our site a short story by Katherine Sand called Tea with Lena. Funny and moving, it’s difficult to not fall in love with this little old lady. Katherine herself said she is delighted to be published as a “Jewish writer” and her grandparents would definitely be “glowing with happiness.” We’re delighted to have you on board at Scribblers, Katherine, and hope you continue to write more stories.
We also have a short, sweet, simple poetry contribution from Shelley White: Shabbos Haiku. It’s wonderful when a title says it all. Shelley confesses that she does not have a blog (we think she should) but she does have a twitter account, where you can follow her haikus. Check them out at http://twitter.com/haikumad.
In the meantime, keep scribbling.
