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Sophie Says: the children’s books making a difference
The self-published book series by Esther Marshall has so far sold more than 25,000 copies
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Summer reading: the best new books for children
From Moses’s birth through the eyes of his big sister, to a spider-and-skull festooned tale of maritime mayhem, our pick of the season’s kids’ fiction
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Yeehaw! Going west with a plate of iced buns
Angela Kiverstein asks children’s author Jodie Lancet-Grant about her latest picture book
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This children’s author puts Israel centre stage – in a positive way
Hong Kong-based children’s author Erica Lyons writes books with a very distinct Jewish flavour
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Dinosaurs at the Seder table
Angela Kiverstein’s pick of this week’s new Jewish books
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China ‘censors’ Jewish children’s book by redrawing Israeli border
Chinese altered map in publication, redrawing the Israeli border and adding the word 'Palestine' to image
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Jodi Picoult Holocaust novel banned from school in 'inappropriate' books row
Picoult's novel The Storyteller was removed from a library in Florida
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Jewish children’s author's books sanitised 'without permission'
American R L Stine has reportedly become the latest casualty of a trend for publishers to 'sensitively' edit books
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Book review: Fritz and Kurt - A moving Shoah book for older children
Appealingly and appropriately illustrated, a sensitively captured child's perspectives of the Holocaust
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Children's books review: Combat, chaos and comedy in David Solomons’s new offering plus a pasta cat from Michael Rosen
Even the most action-hungry reader will be satisfied by Solomons' entertaining fable
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Children in Ukraine and Russia enjoy stories together in London mum's online book club
UK-based expat Dina Berdnikov has created a 'magical world' that allows Jewish youngsters from both sides connect amid the horror of war
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Why don't men read books by women?
We read to learn of the life experiences of others, which increases our empathy and understanding: why wouldn’t we try to understand the experiences of half of the world’s population?
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My hero’s name is Lenny Tuchus
Keren David meets a literary agent turned children’s author who’s a hit at both jobs
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