Chana Stiefel

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.

Thrilled to see The Tower of Life listed on Bank Street College of Education’s Best Books of 2023!

So grateful to share that THE TOWER OF LIFE has been awarded the 2023 Margaret Wise Brown Prize for Children’s Literature from Hollins University. Read more here.

Click here to listen to Matthew C. Winner’s Children’s Book Podcast Featuring Sydney Taylor Book Award Winners & Honors

So grateful that THE TOWER OF LIFE won the 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Award and a Robert F. Sibert Honor at the ALA Youth Media Awards!
Thank you to the awards committees for this incredible honor and for ensuring that Yaffa’s story will be shared with the next generation.

Please listen to this podcast interview with Chana Stiefel and Scholastic editor-at-large Suzanne McCabe about THE TOWER OF LIFE for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Hooray! The Tower of Life won a Mock Sydney Taylor Honor! Thanks to all who voted! See the 2023 winners here for picture books, MG, & YA!

The Tower of Life was selected by the American Library Associated for its Rise: A Feminist Book Project List.
See the full list here.

The Tower of Life was selected as a Nerdy Nonfiction Winner for 2022! See the full list here.

The Tower of Life has been awarded the inaugural Russell Freedman Nonfiction Award for a Better World from the SCBWI Impact & Legacy Fund, along with Freedom: The Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, and Waldo E. Martin. Here’s the story in School Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly!