Sandra Scoppettone, Author, Howard Schwartz, Author, Uri Shulevitz, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-025239-7
One of the pleasures of reading folk and fairy tales attributed to specific cultures lies in finding the traits they share with stories from other peoples or places; another is coming upon the element that makes the story indigenous to that...
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Howard Schwartz, Retold by, Howard Schwartz, Author, Neil Waldman, Illustrator Puffin Books $6.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-14-056438-9
Reverent, peaceful watercolors in rainbow hues accompany this collection of Jewish stories adapted from a variety of sources that explain ancient customs and history, such as the importance of tzedakah, or charity, and the miracle at King David's...
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Howard Schwartz, Author, Barbara Rush, Editor, Stephen Fieser, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $14 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-020853-0
When Yosef's widowed mother receives an inheritance, the 10-year-old offers to travel across the dangerous desert from Algiers to Egypt to collect the money. The caravan owner refuses to stop travel on the Sabbath and Yosef, who could never disobey...
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Howard Schwartz, Author, Barbara Rush, Author, Stephen Fisher, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16.95 (66p) ISBN 978-0-06-023517-8
Howard Schwartz and Barbara Rush bring together eight traditional Jewish stories from the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe in The Wonder Child & Other Jewish Fairy Tales. Some of these stories are unique to Jewish lore; others resemble...
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Howard Schwartz, Author, Thao Cha Nhia, Author, Barbara Rush, Selected by HarperTrophy $4.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-06-440695-6
Ten folktales feature both new and familiar characters: Noah and King Solomon rub shoulders with giants and witches. ""These tellings roll trippingly off the tongue,"" said PW. All ages. (Feb.)
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Howard Schwartz, Author, Howard Schwartz, Retold by, Giora Carmi, Illustrator Simcha Media Group (NJ) $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-943706-21-4
A talented folklorist, Schwartz (Elijah's Violin & Other Jewish Fairy Tales) culls eight little-known stories from Sephardic and Eastern European Jewish lore. All have a mystical bent: a rabbi's daughter travels in her dreams to the Garden of Eden...
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Howard Schwartz, Author, Howard Schwartz, Retold by, Monique Passicot, Illustrator Jewish Publication Society of America $13 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8276-0757-6
Howard Schwartz's The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic, illus. by Monique Passicot, is now available in a trade paperback from the Jewish Publication Society. PW's starred review praised the collection of a dozen tales,...
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Howard Schwartz, Author, Monique Passicot, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-88733-0
Noted storyteller Schwartz (Next Year in Jerusalem) outdoes himself in this expertly presented and well-conceived collection. Each of the dozen tales takes place during a different Jewish holiday, from Rosh Hashanah and Lag ba-Omer to the major...
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Howard Schwartz, Author, Arielle N. Olson, Author, Arielle North Olson, Retold by Viking Children's Books $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-87581-8
Readers looking to be scared (but not too scared) will find chills aplenty in this collection of 22 smoothly told folktales from many cultures. The volume opens with several stories in which protagonists (almost always male) witness supernatural...
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Howard Schwartz, Author, Howard Schwartz, Retold by, Kristina Swarner, Illustrator , illus. by Kristina Swarner. Roaring Brook/Brodie $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-028-0
Why do humans have an indentation above their upper lip? Schwartz (The Diamond Tree
) offers a lyrical explanation based on a midrash (a "Rabbinic legend," in Schwartz's words) published in Constantinople in 1522. An opening image shows...
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Howard Schwartz, illus. by Kristina Swarner, Roaring Brook, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-280-2
The team behind Before You Were Born explains the traditional Jewish concept of tikkun olam (the repair of the world), imagining a dialogue between a grandfather and granddaughter, using a distinctive second-person voice. Swarner pictures...
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Howard Schwartz, illus. by Jasu Hu. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4329-1
Schwartz’s poetic second-person text lists life’s essentials (“All you need// is a planet to live on// a sun to give you light”) while tracing a Chinese child’s maturation into a young artist. Debut illustrator Hu’s lush, full spreads follow the...
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