Bravery in the Fight Against Censorship

I had the honor a few years ago of serving on the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee, administered by the Association of Jewish Libraries, an affiliate of ALA. Sydney Taylor was the author of the All-of-a-Kind Family and its sequels. The series is about a Jewish family with 5 daughters living in New York in the years leading up to and following  World War I. Recently, a colleague reflected on the series: “I loved those books! I had no idea what Shabbat was or what any of the other things they celebrated were but it was such a fun window into another world. They were our generation’s version of American Girl stories.” She saw the value of diverse literature even as a kid; it opened her world to another time, place, and people who were different from her in many ways, but it was exciting to read, laugh, and even…
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