Miss Heidi's Recommended Reading

GOLD MEDALISTS:
The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Younger Readers:
- New Year at the Pier by April Halprin Wayland with illustrations by Stéphane Jorisch (Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)

The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Older Readers:
- The Importance of Wings by Robin Friedman (Charlesbridge Publishing)

The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Teen Readers:
- Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle
(Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)

SILVER MEDALISTS
Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winners for Younger Readers:
- Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover Story by Deborah Bodin Cohen with illustrations by Jago (Kar-Ben, imprint of Lerner)
 
- Benjamin and the Silver Goblet by Jacqueline Jules with illustrations by Natascia Ugliano (Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner)
 
- Yankee at the Seder by Elka Weber with illustrations by Adam Gustavson (Tricycle Press)
 
- You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax? by Jonah Winter with illustrations by Andre Carrilho (Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House)

Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winners for Older Readers:
- Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures from the Archives of the Anne Frank House
by Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol, translated by Arnold J. Pomerans (Roaring Brook Press/Flash Point, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)

- A Faraway Island by Annika Thor, translated by Linda Schenck (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House)

Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winner for Teen Readers:
- Lost by Jacqueline Davies (Marshall Cavendish)
 
- Naomi’s Song by Selma Kritzer Silverberg (Jewish Publication Society)

NOTABLE BOOKS OF JEWISH CONTENT
Notable Books for Younger Readers:
- Where Is Grandpa Dennis? by Michelle Shapiro Abraham with illustrations by Janice Fried (URJ Press)
 
- Around the Shabbos Table by Seryl Berman with illustrations by Ari Binus (Hachai)
 
- The Secret Shofar of Barcelona by Jacqueline Dembar Greene with illustrations by Douglas Chyka (Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner)
 
- Menorah Under the Sea by Esther Susan Heller (Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner)
 
- Today Is the Birthday of the World by Linda Heller with illustrations by Allison Jay (Dutton Children’s Books, an imprint of Penguin)
 
- The Waiting Wall by Leah Braunstein Levy with illustrations by Avi Katz (Hachai Publishers)
 
- Sukkot Treasure Hunt by Allison Ofanansky with photographs by Eliyahu Alpern (Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner)
 
- Fox Walked Alone by Barbara Reid (Albert Whitman & Company)

Notable Books for Older Readers:
- The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak written and illustrated by Tomek Bogacki (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers/Frances Foster Books, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
 
- Guardian Angel House (A Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers) by Kathy Clark (Second Story Press)
 
- Rebecca Series (American Girl Collection) by Jacqueline Dembar Greene with illustrations by Robert Hunt (American Girl)
 
- Strawberry Hill by Mary Ann Hoberman with illustrations by Wendy Anderson Halperin (Little Brown and Company)
 
- The Mysteries of Beethoven’s Hair by Russell Martin and Lydia Nibley (Charlesbridge Publishing)
 
- The Man Who Flies with Birds by Carol Garbuny Vogel and Yossi Leshem (Kar-Ben, an imprint of Lerner)
 
- Clay Man: The Golem of Prague by Irene N. Watts with illustrations by Kathryn E. Shoemaker (Tundra Books)
 
- Elvina’s Mirror by Sylvie Weil (Jewish Publication Society)

Notable Books for All Ages:

- The Disappearing Dowry: an Ezra Melamed Mystery by Libi Astaire (Zahav Press, an imprint of Targum)
 
- A Family Secret/The Search by Eric Heuvel (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
 
- So Punk Rock (and Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother) by Micol Ostow with art by David Ostow (Flux)
 
- Cursing Columbus by Eve Goldberg Tal (Cinco Puntos Press)
 
- Puppet by Eva Wiseman (Tundra)
 
- The Other Half of Life: Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis by Kim Ablon Whitney (Knopf Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House)

Notable Book for All Ages:
- JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible by Ellen Frankel with illustrations by Avi Katz (Jewish Publication Society)