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Sydney Taylor
Sydney Taylor (October 30, 1904 – February 12, 1978) was an American writer, known for her series of children's books about a Jewish-American family in New York during the early 20th century. Her first book won the Charles W. Follett Award in children's literature. Early life and education She was born Sarah Brenner on October 30, 1904, in New York City to Cecilia ( Marowitz) and Morris Brenner, Jewish immigrants from Germany. Her parents and eldest sister Ella had emigrated in 1901 to the United States and settled in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Taylor was the third of the five daughters who would become characters in her later books: Ella, Henrietta, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertrude. She had two younger brothers. German was the first language of the Brenner children, although they spoke English among themselves and outside of the home. The Brenner family moved from the Lower East Side to the Bronx in 1916. Taylor attended Morris High School (Bronx). Correspondence saved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Taylor Book Award
The Sydney Taylor Book Award recognizes the best in Jewish children's literature. Medals are awarded annually for outstanding books that authentically portray the Jewish experience. The award was established in 1968 by the Association of Jewish Libraries. It is named in memory of Sydney Taylor, author of the classic ''All-of-a-Kind Family'' series. Taylor's were some of the first children's books with Jewish characters that were of literary interest to readers of all backgrounds. History The award was first established by the Association of Jewish Libraries in 1968. It was the first of the identity-based awards as a result of Nancy Larrick's 1965 piece ''The All-White World of Children’s Books'', establishing new precedent wherein literary excellence is pared with authentic and well-crafted representation of a particular identity, culture, and experience. Originally, it was known as the Shirley Kravitz Children's Book Award and was later renamed in honor of Sydney Taylor in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All-of-a-Kind Family
''All-of-a-Kind Family'' is a 1951 children's book by Sydney Taylor about a family of five American Jewish girls growing up on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1912. It was followed by four sequels. Background ''All-of-a-Kind Family'' is based on Sydney Taylor's recollections of her childhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where her family settled along with many other Jewish families after migrating from Eastern Europe by way of Germany. The main characters are named for Taylor's real-life sisters, Ella, Henny, Charlotte, and Gertrude, and the middle sister was given the author's birth name, Sarah. The book's genesis was stories of her childhood that Taylor would tell her daughter, Jo. Taylor wrote:"I took my daughter Jo down to the old neighborhood where Papa, Mama and the five little girls had lived. But the past was dead there; it lived only in me. I decided to write it all down for Jo. Perhaps in this way I could re-create for both of us some feeling of that other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Skurnick
Lizzie Skurnick is a writer, critic and editor. In 2007, she started Jezebel's Fine Lines column, "the feature in which we give a wrinkled look at the books we loved as youth," which she wrote until 2009. ''Shelf Discovery'', her book on young adult fiction of her youth, appeared from HarperCollins in 2009. Her YA publishing imprint, Lizzie Skurnick Books, was founded in 2013. The press's classic YA reprints have been praised by ''The Boston Globe'', ''The New York Times'' many other publications and organizations. The press's first original book, ''Isabel's War'', published in 2014, received praise from ''The Wall Street Journal'' and other critical outlets and the Association of Jewish Libraries named it a Sydney Taylor Honor Book (second to the first prize winner). Skurnick's "That Should Be a Word" column appeared weekly in ''The New York Times Magazines One Page Magazine from 2011 to 2014. Her coinages have been praised and/or used by '' Bust Magazine'', ''Salon'', and ''ABC'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
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The Lion And The Unicorn (journal)
''The Lion and the Unicorn'' is an academic journal founded in 1977. It examines children's literature from a scholarly perspective covering the publishing industry, regional authors, comparative studies, illustration, popular culture, and other topics. It provides unique author and editor interviews and a highly regarded book review section. The journal frequently takes the form of special themed issues. The journal is published three times each year in January, April, and September by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Circulation is 686 and the average length of an issue is 160 pages. The title of the journal was inspired from a scene in the 1871 book ''Through the Looking-Glass''. See also * Children's literature periodicals * Children's literature criticism External links * ''The Lion and the Unicorn''at Project MUSE Project MUSE, a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers From New York City
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Deaths From Cancer In The United States
Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death. Death is an inevitable process that eventually occurs in almost all organisms. Death is generally applied to whole organisms; the similar process seen in individual components of an organism, such as cells or tissues, is necrosis. Something that is not considered an organism, such as a virus, can be physically destroyed but is not said to die. As of the early 21st century, over 150,000 humans die each day, with ageing being by far the most common cause of death. Many cultures and religions have the idea of an afterlife, and also may hold the idea of judgement of good and bad deeds in one's life (heav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Deaths
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1904 Births
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Jewish American Writers
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Beth And Joe Krush
Joe Krush (May 18, 1918 – March 8, 2022) and Beth Krush (March 31, 1918 – February 2, 2009) were an American husband-and-wife team of illustrators who worked primarily on children's books. They may be known best for the U.S. editions of all five Borrowers books by Mary Norton, published by Harcourt 1953–1961 and 1982, a series inaugurated very early in their careers. Life Beth was born March 31, 1918, in Washington, D.C. As a girl she enjoyed visiting the city institutions and special events and drawing at home. Joseph Krush was born May 18, 1918, in Camden, New Jersey, and raised there. As a boy he won some prizes for drawings of boats and planes. Beth and Joe both studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, where they met on the first day of class. They married during World War II and settled in Wayne, Pennsylvania, south of the city, in 1948. They still lived there when Beth died in 2009 (in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania). Joe had a life-long love of aviation. He desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
