Blog Home

My father always said: “Life is ruled by the unexpected,” and indeed everyone loves the twists and turns of happy surprises. Twenty years ago, when I first visited Rembrandt’s Amsterdam house, I had one of those unanticipated moments.

In my family, Shabbat is a time to enjoy good food, to spend time with friends and family and to allow ourselves to just be. On Shabbat afternoons, we love playing board games, reading books, and playing with our dog, Mitzi.

I grew up nostalgic for a world I never knew: my father’s childhood in the Pimlico section of Baltimore in the mid-twentieth century, where neighbors and cousins ran in and out of his family’s rowhouse, extended family always, physically right

People often ask why a particular story might be conceived as a board book. For me, Counting on Shabbat had to be a board book because I was writing it to thank the little great grandchildren that were bringing my elderly mother so much

As the author of over fifty children’s books, I have written about the US Constitution, a gigantic mythical bird, Pluto’s demotion, Rabbi Akiva, goblins, a boy with magic sneakers, and an eclectic mix of other topics. But until My Name is

Have you ever seen a koala celebrate Shabbat?