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Articles by Devon Holzwarth
NOT FAR FROM HERE
A touching reminder that the stories of our ancestors light the way for generations to come. Two brown-skinned, Latine-cued children playing in an attic discover a suitcase filled with letters and photos as well as a key dangling from a long gold chain. Excitedly, they rush to ask Mamá to tell them the story of these items. She explains how she and their father met, starting with his childhood in an unnamed Spanish-speaking country.
Across So Many Seas
Review By – February 5, 2024 The expulsion of Spain’s Jews by the Catholic monarchs in 1492 ended an era of Jewish history, but it also began a new one. Jews who refused conversion, or the dangerous option of continuing their religious life in secret, had to flee their homes. They established themselves in Turkey, Italy, North America, and other regions, bringing their language, Ladino (judeoespañol), and their rich and varied culture with them.
New Year, New Beginnings: Picture Books for Children and Adults to Enjoy on the High Holidays
As we prepare to celebrate the High Holidays, to hear the shofar blasts and gather with family and friends for festive meals and wish each other a sweet new year, I’m excited in a way I’ve never been before. I’m now a grandmother – an abuelita – of two lovely girls, a toddler, and a seven-month-old baby. I hope to pass on to them as much as I can of my unique Jewish heritage.
The Languages of Belonging: A Conversation Between Ruth Behar and Marjorie Agosín
RB: How wonderful that your father encouraged you to be a writer. My trajectory was different, because I wasn’t encouraged to read or to write by my family. Shortly after we arrived from Cuba, I was in a terrible car accident, which I later wrote about in my middle-grade novel, Lucky Broken Girl. It left me bedridden for a year and turned me into a reader and a writer, since there was little else for me to do while immobile.
Ella KVELLephant and the Search for Bubbe’s Yiddish Treasure
Review By – April 18, 2023 When elephant siblings Ella and Eli spend an exciting day at the beach with their grandparents, they are distressed to learn a sad fact about old age. Sometimes a language, if it is not spoken regularly, can disappear. When Bubbe confesses that she can no longer access all the Yiddish words she used in her younger years, Ella determines to help her recover them.
The Night Travelers
Review By – January 9, 2023 With his finger always on the human pulse of historical events, Correa opens his third novel with the impossible decision a free-spirited poet must make to protect her mixed-race daughter from Hitler’s racial laws. He then follows the heartache that her grown daughter endures, having to send her own daughter away to save her life during the Castro revolution.
11 Middle Grade and Picture Books Kids Will Love Written by Latinas — The Mujerista
School is back in session and the little ones are going to need some book recommendations to add to their reading list. Or, maybe you’re just looking for a few quick weekend reads to add to your book shelf (por que you’re never too old for a good middle grade series). Well, make room for these Latina-centered middle-grade and picture books for all the chiquititas and mujeres in your life.
Until the Blueberries Grow
Skip to main content Jewish Book Council, founded in 1944, is the longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature. Get the latest reviews, news, and more in your inbox. Children’s Jennifer Wolf Kam; Sally Walker, illus.
The Loss of Tía Fortuna’s Pink Casita: Writing a Sephardic Picture Book
Skip to main content Jewish Book Council, founded in 1944, is the longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature. Get the latest reviews, news, and more in your inbox. Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba to a mixed Ashkenazi-Sephardic family. She grew up in New York, and became the first Latina to win a MacArthur Genius Grant.
Children’s Book Roundup: May 2022
Big new titles perfect for the littles. The Boy with Flowers in His Hair by Jarvis (Candlewick Press). “His name is David. He’s the boy with flowers in his hair, and he’s my best friend…He’s sweet and gentle. Just like his petals.” David is also fully accepted by the other kids in his class. So when — oh, no! — his beautiful blossoms start dropping to the ground? Everyone jumps in to help. After all, pals don’t judge us for our differences; they love us for them.
Cover Reveal! Shannon Stocker’s LISTEN: HOW EVEYLN GLENNIE, A DEAF GIRL, CHANGED PERCUSSION (plus a giveaway)
by Shannon Stocker Mega thanks to my mentor and friend, Tara Lazar, for hosting the cover reveal of my upcoming non-fiction picture book, LISTEN: HOW EVEYLN GLENNIE, A DEAF GIRL, CHANGED PERCUSSION (April 12, 2022, from Dial Books). About three years ago, after listening to an SCBWI speaker talk about the importance of writing what you know and the #OwnVoices movement, I felt moved to write a book about a musician who’d overcome something huge.
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