The Sydney Taylor Shmooze

We want to thank our dedicated team of volunteer book reviewers! They've been doing an amazing job evaluating Jewish children's and YA books for The Sydney Taylor Shmooze throughout 2021. Read their reviews so you'll be ready to VOTE for the Mock Sydney Taylor Book Awards, starting January 3, 2022! If you're interested in joining our reviewing team, CLICK HERE .   Todah Rabah to:   Laurie Adler Sarah Aronson Dena Bach Belinda Brock Merle Carruss Leah Cypress Meira Drazin Michelle Falkoff Karin Fisher-Golton  Valerie Frankel Rachel Fremmer Beth Gallego  Jeff Gottesfeld Judith Greenblatt Bridget Hodder Ruth Horowitz  Mirele Kessous Cynthia Levinson Rebecca Levitan Ronna Mandel Stacy Mozer Stacy Nockowitz  Chava Pinchuck Stacie Ramey Heidi Rabinowitz Rachel Simon  Lisa Silverman Lila Spitz Cheryl Strausberg Shirley Vernick A.R. Vishny Sandy Wasserman Eva Weiss Meg Wiviott

  We want to thank our dedicated team of volunteer book reviewers! They've been doing a great job evaluating Jewish children's and YA books for The Sydney Taylor Shmooze throughout 2020. Read their reviews so you'll be ready to VOTE for the Mock Sydney Taylor Book Awards, starting January 4, 2021! If you're interested in joining our reviewing team, CLICK HERE .   Todah Rabah to:   Laurie Adler Sarah Aronson Freidele Biniashvili Kathy Bloomfield  Belinda Brock Anna Caplan  Leah Cypress Meira Drazin Michelle Falkoff Karin Fisher-Golton  Rachel Fremmer Beth Gallego  Jeff Gottesfeld Judith Greenblatt Bridget Hodder Ruth Horowitz  Rachel Kamin Mirele Kessous Jane Kohuth Stacy Mozer Stacy Nockowitz  Gigi Pagliarulo Fern Richardson Sylvie Shaffer Rachel Simon Lila Spitz A.R. Vishny Sandy Wasserman Meg Wiviott

The Sydney Taylor Shmooze is off to a great start, and at this time we are opening our reviewing program to additional volunteers. There are still over fifty books left to evaluate this year, and we need you! Please fill out this form to be considered as a reviewer for The Shmooze. A review on a mock award blog is a little different than one in a review journal. The main focus is on how or if the book meets the criteria for the award. We currently do not have access to publisher review copies for this blog, so we do ask that reviewers try to locate the books in a local or Judaic library. If you decide to purchase your own copy, we suggest supporting your local independent bookseller or using Bookshop.org .

The Sydney Taylor Shmooze won’t be very shmoozy if we only talk to ourselves. What we’re looking for is a lot more voices and perspectives. What we need is reviewers. A review on a mock award blog is a little different than one in a review journal. The main focus is on how or if the book meets the criteria for the award. We currently do not have access to publisher review copies for this blog, so we do ask that reviewers try to locate the books in a local or Judaic library. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in doing, please fill out this form . Many thanks!