FYI,

2014 Sydney Taylor Book Awards Announced by AJL

Laurel Snyder and Catia Chien, author and illustrator of The Longest Night:  A Passover Story, Patricia Polacco author and illustrator of The Blessing Cup, and Neal Bascomb, author of The Nazi Hunters:  How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi, are the 2014 winners of the Sydney Taylor Book Award. 

Honor Books

Six Sydney Taylor Honor Books were named for 2014. For younger readers, two Honor Books were selected, both published by Kar-Ben a division of Lerner Publishing Group: 

Stones for Grandpa by Renee Londoner with illustrations by Martha Avillés and Rifka Takes a Bow by Betty Rosenberg Perlov with illustrations by Cosei Kawa.

The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson with Marilyn J. Harran and Elisabeth B. Leyson (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division) and Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948 by Carol Matas (Scholastic Canada)garnered recognition as an Honor Books for Older Readers. For Teen Readers, the honor goes to Dancing in the Dark by Robyn Bavati (Flux, an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide) and The War Within These Walls by Aline Sax with illustrations by Caryl Strzelecki and translated by Laura Watkinson (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers). 

In addition to the medal-winners, the Award Committee designated thirteen Notable Books of Jewish Content for 2014. More information about the Sydney Taylor Book Award can be found at www.SydneyTaylorBookAward.org.

Best,

Sharon Rawlins, MLS

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