The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly)

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The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly) episodes

June 02, 2009 The Red Leather Diary, Part 1
The Book of Life recorded Lily Koppel, author of The Red Leather Diary, as she gave this talk at Aston Gardens Senior Living Center in Parkland, Florida in spring, 2009.
44 min
May 07, 2009 Mitzvah Time: The Bridget Zinn Auction
The Bridget Zinn Auction is a fundraiser for a fellow kidlit librarian/author who has cancer. The Book of Life has donated an audio interview to the auction. Please bid on all items at bridgetzinnauction.wordpress.com by May 31, 2009. www.bookoflifepodcast.com
10 min
May 03, 2009 Sing, Little Birdie
The Book of Life's Canadian Correspondent, Anne Dublin, interviews Montreal musician Orit Shimoni of Little Birdie. bookoflifepodcast.com twitter.com/bookoflifepod [email protected]
18 min
April 08, 2009 Moses Is Departing Egypt, A Facebook Haggadah
The Facebook Haggadah swept the Internet in spring 2009. In this episode of The Book of Life we interview its creator, Carl Elkin, about the haggadah and about his other Facebook projects. www.bookoflifepodcast.com
11 min
April 01, 2009 Truth or Dare
The Book of Life podcast interviews Judy Blundell, author of What I Saw and How I Lied, winner of the National Book Award in the Young People's Literature category. bookoflifepodcast.com
17 min
March 18, 2009 A Civil War Passover
Yankee at the Seder is a picture book is about a Yankee Jewish soldier who spends Passover with a Confederate Jewish family. It is historian Elka Weber's first book for children, and it's based on a kernal of true Civil War history.
10 min
March 03, 2009 Memories of Aranka Siegal
Holocaust survivor and memoirist Aranka Siegal shares some of the memories on which her award-winning books are based. The Book of Life March 2009 www.bookoflifepodcast.com
16 min
February 18, 2009 Sonia Levitin's Return
Sonia Levitin, author of over 40 books for children and teens, has turned her award-winning 1987 novel The Return into a a musical stage play. RETURN chronicles an Ethiopian Jewish girl's walk to freedom in Israel via Operation Moses. www.bookoflifepodcast.com
21 min
February 01, 2009 Black History Month, Jewish Style
We celebrate Black History Month, Jewish style, with the book As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr & Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom, and the CD Sing for Joy, music of the Abayudaya of Uganda.
22 min
January 26, 2009 The 2009 Sydney Taylor Book Awards
A behind-the-scenes look at the Sydney Taylor Book Awards with awards committee chair Kathe Pinchuck.
9 min

About The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly)

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The Book of Life is an interview-format podcast about Jewish kidlit, mostly, with occasional coverage of Jewish YA/adult books, music, film and web, established in December 2005.