Sydney Taylor Book Award on Tour!

The Sydney Taylor Book Award winners are hitting the road! So to speak.

The Awards Committee has organized a blog tour for this years award winners. Check out the Association of Jewish Libraries blog for full details, but here's a shortcut to our Sydney Taylor Honor Award winners...

Jacqueline Jules, author of Benjamin and the Silver Goblet, interviewed by ASHarmony

Joni Sussman, Publisher of Kar-Ben, interviewed at The Book of Life

Deborah Bodin Cohen, author of Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim, interviewed at Ima on and off the Bima (plus a giveaway!)

Jago, illustrator of Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim, interviewed at Jewish Books for Children

Congratulations to all of this year's Sydney Taylor honorees! Happy reading!

Sydney Taylor Honor Award seal appears courtesy of the Association of Jewish Libraries.

Awards Excitement!

No, we're not talking Golden Globes and Oscars, here. The Sydney Taylor Book Award winners have just been announced! The prestigious award, administered by the Association of Jewish Libraries, exclusively honors children’s and YA books of Jewish content.

Kar-Ben is pleased to announce that both Nachshon Who Was Afraid to Swim by Deborah Bodin Cohen (pictured left), illustrated by Jago, and Benjamin and the Silver Goblet by Jacqueline Jules (pictured right), illustrated by Natascia Ugliano, have won the 2010 Sydney Taylor Honor Award for Younger Readers! The authors and illustrators will be honored at the annual AJL conference in June 2010.

Four additional Kar-Ben titles were recognized as Sydney Taylor Award Notable Books:

The Secret Shofar of Barcelona by Jacqueline Dembar Greene, illus. by Doug Chayka
Sukkot Treasure Hunt by Allison Ofanansky, photos by Eliyahu Alpern
Menorah Under the Sea by Esther Susan Heller
The Man Who Flies with Birds by Carole G. Vogel and Yossi Leshem

Mazel tov to all the winners! It is an honor and pleasure to include your books in our catalogue.