Please help us promote the Sydney Taylor Book Awards by placing gold and silver medals on the 2007 winning titles. You can order packages of 20 seals from AJL. Go to <http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/awards/stba/publishers/seals_order_form.pdf>http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/awards/stba/publishers/seals_order_form.pdf to access the order form.
Larger quantities can be ordered directly from our printer, Shadow Graphics, by calling 954/806-8040. Digital images of the medals can also be downloaded from <http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/awards/stba/st_books_publishers.htm>http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/awards/stba/st_books_publishers.htm. NOTE: The gold and silver medal seals are only for the Sydney Taylor Book Award and Honor winners in the Younger and Older Readers categories. They should not be used for the winners of the Association of Jewish Libraries Teen Book Awards. More information about the Awards is available at <http://www.sydneytaylorbookaward.org/>www.SydneyTaylorBookAward.org. Thank you for your support! Rachel Kamin, Chair Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee The Association of Jewish Libraries c/o The Temple Israel Libraries & Media Center 5725 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323 248/661-5700 (phone), 248/661-1302 (fax) <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCED BY ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Younger Readers: Hanukkah at Valley Forge by Stephen Krensky with illustrations by Greg Harlin (Dutton) Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Older Readers: Julias Kitchen by Brenda Ferber (Farrar Straus and Giroux) Association of Jewish Libraries Teen Book Award Winner: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House) Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winners for Younger Readers: The White Ram by Mordicai Gerstein (Holiday House) I Am Marc Chagall by Bimba Landmann (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers) Shlemazel and the Remarkable Spoon of Pohost by Ann Redisch Stampler with illustrations by Jacqueline M. Cohen (Clarion) Rebeccas Journey Home by Brynn O. Sugarman with illustrations by Michelle Shapiro (Kar Ben/Lerner) Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winners for Older Readers: Vive La Paris! by Esme Raji Codell (Hyperion/Disney) Solomon and the Ant: And Other Jewish Folktales by Sheldon Oberman (Boyds Mills Press) Yellow Star by Jennifer Rozines Roy (Marshall Cavendish Childrens Books) Night of the Burning: Devorahs Story by Linda Press Wulf (Farrar Straus and Giroux) Association of Jewish Libraries Honor Award Winners for Teens: Incantation by Alice Hoffman (Little, Brown and Company) A Brief Chapter In My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt (Wendy Lamb/Random House) Notable Books for Younger Readers: I Have a Little Dreidel by Maxie Baum with illustrations by Julie Paschkis (Scholastic) Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue by Anna Harwell Celenza with illustrations by by JoAnn E. Kitchel (Charlesbridge) Eight Wild Nights by Brian Cleary with illustrations by David Udovic (Kar-Ben/Lerner) On Sukkot & Simchat Torah by Cathy Goldberg Fishman with illustrations by Melanie W. Hall (Kar-Ben/Lerner) With All Your Heart: A Shabbat and Festival Companion by Julie K. Gordon (The Minneapolis Jewish Day School) Celebrate Hanukkah with Light, Latkes, and Dreidels by Deborah Heiligman (National Geographic) Much, Much Better by Chaim Kosofsky with illustrations by Jessica Schiffman (HaChai) It's Shofar Time by Latifa Berry Kropf with photographs by Tod Cohen (Kar-Ben/Lerner) Willy and Max: A Holocaust Story by Amy Littlesugar with illustrations by William Low (G. P. Putnam Sons) Hammerin' Hank: The Life of Hank Greenberg by Yona Zeldis McDonough with illustrations by Malcah Zeldis (Bloomsbury Children's Books & Walker Books for Young Readers) Across the Alley by Richard Michelson with illustrations by E.B. Lewis (Viking) In the Days of Sand and Stars by Marlee Pinsker with illustrations by Francois Thisdale (Tundra Books) Grandma Like Yours/A Grandpa Like Yours by Andria Warmflash Rosenbaum with illustrations by Barb Bjornson (Kar-Ben/Lerner) The Little, Little House by Jessica Souhami (Frances Lincoln/Publishers Group West) Notable Books for Older Readers: The Secret World of Kabblah by Judith Z. Abrams (Kar-Ben/Lerner) Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman (Harpercollins Childrens Books) Escaping Into the Night by D. Dina Friedman (Simon & Schuster) Emil and Karl by Yankev Glatshteyn, translated by Jeffrey Shandler (Roaring Brook) Hiding Edith by Kathy Kacer (Second Story Press) The Cat With the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin by Susan Goldman Rubin (Holiday House) Pickpockets Tale by Karen Schwabach (Random House) Stealing Home by Ellen Schwartz (Tundra Books) Notable Books for Teens: Lilith's Ark: Teenage Tales of Biblical Women by Deborah Bodin Cohen (Jewish Publication Society) Notes from the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick (Scholastic) The Unresolved by T.K. 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