In this bonus episode of The Book of Life Podcast: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly), host Heidi Rabinowitz talks to host of The Five Books, Tali Rosenblatt Cohen. Heidi and Tali trade recommendations for books new and old. If you’re keeping a list of great kids books with Jewish themes, this is a great episode for you!
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Book #1: Favorite Picture Books
Book #2: Favorite Middle Grade
To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloane and Meg Wolitzer (Heidi)
Not Nothing by Gayle Forman (Tali)
Max in the House of Spies/Max in the Land of Lies by Adam Gidwitz (Heidi)
Book #3: Favorite Young Adult
Recipe for Disaster by Aimee Lucido (Heidi) - actually Middle Grade but mentioned at this point
Book #4: What books are you excited about right now?
More Than Enough: Inspired by Maimonides’s Golden Ladder of Giving by Richard Michelson (Heidi)
Night Owls by A.R. Vishny (Heidi)
Honey and Me by Meira Drazin (Tali)
Book #5: Adult Books
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank (Tali)
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar (Tali)
Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom by Ariel Burger (Tali)
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn (Heidi)
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