2021 MOCK SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARDS - PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY

 Not sure which book should get your vote?

Here are the reviews to help you decide:

The Abba Tree by Devora Busheri 

Reviewed by Freidele Galya Soban Biniashvili

Alligator Seder by Jessica Hickman                               

Reviewed by Lila Spitz

Asteroid Goldberg: Passover in Outer Space by Brianna Caplan Sayres    

Reviewed by Fern Richardson

A Basket Full of Figs by Ori Elan       

Reviewed by Freidele Galya Soban Biniashvili

Bear and Fred: A World War II Story               

Reviewed by Karin Fisher-Golton

The Boy Who Thought Outside the Box: The Story of Video Game Inventor Ralph Bear by Marcie Wessels  

Reviewed by Meg Wiviott

Buen Shabat, Shabbat Shalom by Sarah Aroeste     

Reviewed by Bridget Hodder

Clarence's Topsy Turvey Shabbat by Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod      

Reviewed by Rachel J. Fremmer

A Crowded Farmhouse Folktale by Karen Rostoker-Gruber

Reviewed by Karin Fisher-Golton

Does Your Dog Speak Hebrew? A Book of Animal Sounds by Ellen Bari            

Reviewed by Sandy Wasserman

The Eight Knights of Hanukkah by Leslie Kimmelman       

Reviewed by Laurie Adler

The Generous Fish by Jacqueline Jules     

Reviewed by Ruth Horowitz

The Hanukkah Magic of Nate Gadol by Arthur A.  Levine

Reviewed by Bridget Hodder

Happy Birthday, Trees! by Karen Rostoker-Gruber    

Reviewed by Freidele Galya Soban Biniashvili

Happy Llamakkah! by Laura Gehl                         

Reviewed by Rachel Kamin

Hard Hat Cat! by Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh        

Reviewed by Mirele Kessous

Havdalah Is Coming! by Tracy Newman    

Reviewed by Mirele Kessous

Have You Ever Zeen a Ziz? by Linda Elovitz Marshall

Reviewed by Freidele Galya Soban Biniashvili

Hillel Builds a House by Shoshana Lepon          

Reviewed by Laurie Adler

I Am the Tree of Life: A Jewish Yoga Book by Mychal Copeland

Reviewed by Sarah Aronson 

I Have a Jewish Name by Rochel Vorst    

Reviewed by Freidele Galya Soban Biniashvili

I Love Matzah by Freidele Biniashvili     

Reviewed by Jeff Gottesfeld

If I Lived with Noah by Pamela Moritz  

Reviewed by Belinda Brock

It's Challah Time (20th Anniversary Edition) by Latifa Berry Kropf 

Reviewed by Rachel Kamin

Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin by Tracy Newman   

Reviewed by Kathy Bloomfield

Judy Led the Way by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso        

Reviewed by Belinda Brock

Kayla and Kugel's Happy Hanukkah by Ann D. Koffsky  

Reviewed by Judith S. Greenblatt

Latkes for Santa Claus by Janie Emaus      

Reviewed by Rachel Simon

Lilah Tov, Good Night by Ben Gundersheimer  

Reviewed by Beth Gallego

The Littlest Candle: A Hanukkah Story by Jesse and Kerry Olitzky

Reviewed by Heidi Rabinowitz

Miriam at the River by Jane Yolen    

Reviewed by Kathy Bloomfield 

Mommy, Can You Stop the Rain? by Rona Milch Novick 

Reviewed by Sandy Wasserman

My First Baal Shem Tov Book by Yosef Kauffman    

Reviewed by Freidele Galya Soban Biniashvili

My Sister Is Sleeping by Devora Busheri      

Reviewed by Fern Richardson

Nicanor's Gate by Eric Kimmel           

Reviewed by Rachel Kamin

Night Lights by Barbara Diamond Goldin            

Reviewed by Heidi Rabinowitz

The Ninth Night of Hanukkah by Erica Perl

Reviewed by Rachel J. Fremmer

No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon's Battle for Women's Rights in Japan by Jeff Gottesfeld              

Reviewed by Meg Wiviott

The Passover Mouse by Joy Nelkin Weider  

Reviewed by Gigi Perlman Pagliarulo

The Peddler and the Baker by Yael Molchadsky  

Reviewed by Sandy Wasserman

A Persian Princess by Barbara Diamond Goldin    

Reviewed by Jane Kohuth

The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine by Linda Elovitz Marshall      

Reviewed by Kathy Bloomfield

Sadie's Shabbat Stories by Melissa Stoller  

Reviewed by Freidele Galya Soban Biniashvili

Shalom Bayit: A Peaceful Home by Linda Elovitz Marshall    

Reviewed by Mirele Kessous

Shimmy Shambone Will Not Share His Toys by Yael Zoldan

Reviewed by Leah Cypress

Such a Library! by Jill Nadler      

Reviewed by Rachel J. Fremmer

The Surprise in the Desk by Carol Ungar     

Reviewed by Freidele Galya Soban Biniashvili

A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night by Allison Ofanansky  

Reviewed by Sandy Wasserman

Sweet Tamales for Purim by Barbara Foster Bietz  

Reviewed by Kathy Bloomfield

There Was a Young Rabbi: A Hanukkah Tale by Suzanne Wolfe 

Reviewed by Jeff Gottesfeld

A Very Big Problem by Amy-Jill Levine       

Reviewed by Laurie Adler

The Very Hungry Caterpillar's 8 Nights of Hanukkah by Eric Carle 

Reviewed by Heidi Rabinowitz

Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tail by Lesléa  Newman 

Reviewed by Anna Caplan

Worse and Worse on Noah's Ark by Leslie Kimmelman 

Reviewed by Rachel J. Fremmer

Yitzy Aims High by Ann D. Koffsky    

Reviewed by Chava Pinchuck

You're the Cheese in My Blintz by Leslie Kimmelman     

Reviewed by Kathy Bloomfield

Zombie Vacation by Lisa Rose        

Reviewed by Lila Spitz