Re: [ha-Safran] Israeli bios for elementary school

As both an author of middle grade biographies (focusing on Texas women) and a publisher, I can say that partnering with authors and publishers with grants would go a long way towards helping get these types of books out into the world. It takes me at least a year of research and writing to

Re: [ha-Safran] Israeli bios for elementary school

PJ library has a competition or scholarship for writers to go to israel to do research for books. Maybe we could suggest that they include more up-to/date biographies. Dina tanners Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 8, 2017, at 3:23 PM, Devorah Bader wrote: > > It would be

Re: [ha-Safran] Israeli bios for elementary school

It would be great if they could be a part of the who is/was series. That is already a popular series with students and wouldn't have to be just for Judaica bio projects. Devorah Bader Library, Information and Media Specialist Tarbut v'torah Community Day School On Dec 8, 2017 10:15 AM, "Amy

Re: [ha-Safran] Israeli bios for elementary school

Thank you, Diane, for adding some support to my comments. (Yes, I, too, remember when teachers assigned biographies, and I think if we had GOOD ones we would at least be able to enthusiastically recommend them.) I also wondered about some kind of incentive from AJL… perhaps setting up an AJL