Sydney Taylor Award Blog Tour Begins!

I am pleased to be taking part again in the Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour, which begins today.  I have posted the full schedule below; my interview with Shirley Vernick, author of The Blood Lie, a Sydney Taylor Honor winner in the Teen category, will be posted on Thursday.  Please check out the upcoming interviews with the winning authors and illustrators below!

THE 2012 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARD BLOG TOUR

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2012

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

Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category

at Ima On & Off the Bima

Holly Meade, illustrator of Naamah and the Ark at Night

Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category

at Into the Wardrobe

Shelley Sommer, author of Hammerin' Hank Greenberg, Baseball Pioneer

Sydney Taylor 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

Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category

at Shelf-Employed 

Ron Mazellan, illustrator of Irena's Jar of Secrets

Sydney Taylor 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

Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category

at Bildungsroman

Anne Timmons (and possibly Mo Oh), illustrators of of Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer

Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category 

at Gathering Books 

Morris Gleitzman, author of Then

Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category

at The 3 R's

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Michael Rosen, author of Chanukah Lights

Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category

at A Chair, a Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy

Robert Sabuda, illustrator/paper engineer of Chanukah Lights

Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category

at Practically Paradise

Susan Goldman Rubin, author of Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein

Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category

at Cynsations

Robert Sharenow, author of The Berlin Boxing Club

Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category

at Jewish Books for Children

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Durga Yael Bernhard, author & illustrator of Around the World in One Shabbat

Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category

at Frume Sarah's World

Shirley Vernick, author of The Blood Lie

Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category

at The Fourth Musketeer 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Eric Kimmel, author of The Golem's Latkes

Sydney Taylor Notable Book, and winner of the National Jewish Book Award

at Ann Koffsky's Blog

Gloria Spielman, author of Marcel Marceau, Master of Mime

Sydney Taylor 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

Sydney Taylor 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