The Children's Book Podcast · Matthew C. Winner
The 2026 Sydney Taylor Book Award Winners and Honor Books
·24 min·2 clips
Susie Oltman reveals how her grandmother's Shabbat dinners at age seven inspired a book about finding rest in chaos.
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A gentle awards roundup that treats Jewish children's books as living craft, history, and community.
The episode takes a warm, measured look at the Sidney Taylor Book Award and the books it honors, moving from celebrated titles to the people behind them and the Jewish lives those books try to hold.
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You want a calm roundup of the Sydney Taylor Book Awards.
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