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AWE-some Book News!

Can’t wait for AWE! illustrated by Susan Gal, coming from Scholastic, 3-3-26!

Interview in Children’s Book Insider

Check out this fun interview in Children’s Book Insider, June 2025!

LET’S FLY is a 2025 Social Studies Trade Notable

LET’S FLY has been selected as a 2025 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young Readers by the NCSS and Children’s Book Council! See the full list here.

California Young Reader Nominee

LET LIBERTY RISE has been nominated for a California Young Reader Medal 2025-2026 in the Picture Books for Older Readers category! More info here.

Barrington Irving & LET’S FLY Featured on TODAY Show!

Check out this wonderful interview with TODAY Show’s Craig Melvin & Capt. Barrington Irving at the Intrepid Museum!

Tower of Life Nominated for Garden State Children’s Book Award

The Tower of Life has been nominated for a 2025 Garden State Children’s Book Award for nonfiction!

New Book Deal!

 

HOW RUDE: ANIMALS WITH ATTITUDE, by Chana Stiefel, illustrated by Anna Louise Oliver, coming from Union Square Publishing, Fall 2025.

 

Visit to St. Louis

Chana will be visiting the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum for a Story Hour reading of The Tower of Life on Feb. 25th and a family program, “Echoes of Eishyshok: A Town Immortalized in Photographs,” on Feb 26th. Learn more here and register here.

2023 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature

The Tower of Life was awarded the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature, along with Beneath the Wide Silk Sky by Emily Inouye Huey, at UConn’s Dodd Impact Center in Storrs, CT, on November 15, 2023. (L to R) Senator Chris Dodd, Michelle Palmer, Emily Inouye Huey, Chana Stiefel, Dodd Center Chair James Waller.

Tower of Life Wins 2023 Malka Penn Award

The Tower of Life has won the 2023 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature from the University of Connecticut’s Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs. Click here to learn more.

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