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Tag: Hanukkah

November 17, 2021 by Betsy Bird

What’s Red and Green and Blue and White All Over? An Interview with Lee Wind and Paul O. Zelinsky, Of Course!

It's Jewish. It's Christian. And it's created by the singular team of Lee Wind and Paul O. Zelinsky. We're talking with this dynamic duo about their latest title RED AND GREEN AND BLUE AND WHITE.

December 11, 2018 by Betsy Bird

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming by Lemony Snicket, ill. Lisa Brown

"It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can make you want to scream." Kate and Betsy discuss a new Hanukkah classic. On that involves a lot of screaming, and a protagonist that (you guessed it) gets eaten.

November 20, 2018 by Betsy Bird

Book Trailer Reveal: Meet the Latkes by Alan Silberberg

Every year in December I do this 31 Days, 31 Books series. On each day I present a different list full of the best of the year. Board Books one day. Funny picture books another. And somewhere in there I put out a list I like to call Transcendent Holiday Books. These are the books […]

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Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmel, ill. Trina Schart Hyman

December 18, 2017 by Betsy Bird

So Kate asked me to pull out a classic children’s book that was also a Hanukkah book this week. A tricky proposition but by no means an impossible one. Today’s selection is a Caldecott Honor title that has been performed by and read to children for years. You might debate the degree to which this […]

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