When I get the few advance copies of a book from a publisher, I think hard about what it is best to do with them. When the advance copies of Matzah Belowstairs, my latest book, came out, I knew … Read More
My newest picture book is out!
It is a happy, light-hearted story about a mouse family that needs matzah for Passover. They live under the floorboards beneath the apartment where the human Winklers live. And luckily the Winklers are … Read More
I found out this morning that NEW SHOES is a nominee for the South Dakota Prairie Bloom Award for 2017-18. This means that it has been chosen as one of ten best books for this age group and children all … Read More
I’m the daughter of a child refugee.
My widowed grandmother came here with her two children in November of 1942, making them among the last Jews to escape from Nazi-occupied France. They had been helped by HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant … Read More
Gustave first notices Mr. Quong’s Hand Laundry because there is a cat in the window, lying on a red and gold blanket in a patch of sunshine. He taps on the window to say hello to her.
Later, when he … Read More
Something amazing has happened—the first copies of my new book, Skating With the Statue of Liberty came in the mail!
As it happened, they arrived in the middle of a freak spring snowstorm, so it is really lucky that … Read More