Tanya Lee Stone

Dec 2, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Tanya Lee Stone |Gretchen Powers

Skip to main content Jewish Book Council, founded in 1943, is the longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature. Get the latest reviews, news, and more in your inbox. Review By – December 2, 2024 Since the hit film Oppenheimer was released, many more books have been written about the secret Los Alamos project during WWII.

Sep 25, 2024 | hbook.com | Kekla Magoon |Cynthia Smith |Jack Gantos |Tanya Lee Stone

Nearly ten years ago, the two of us spent an unforgettable week together in sunny Austin, Texas, signing books at an independent bookstore, visiting local author friends, and sampling an array of delicious tacos. What made it so special is somewhat intangible. Perhaps simply being two children’s writers together brought out the magic in us — we were energetic and free, filled with a creative spirit as though the world were at our fingertips.

Aug 21, 2024 | hbook.com | Heather Barrett |Betsy Groban |Jack Gantos |Tanya Lee Stone

In honor of our centennial, we asked interns from over the years to share their reminiscences. I was an intern during the summer of 2007, the year before I graduated from Wellesley College. At the time, I was trying to decide what I was going to do with my English major, and I felt a lot of discouragement and uncertainty.

Aug 8, 2024 | hbook.com | Betsy Groban |Jack Gantos |Tanya Lee Stone |Steve Sheinkin

My connection with the Horn Book dates back to the regime of Ethel and Paul Heins. Perhaps because I was so young at the time, it seemed like the Red Sea parted whenever they arrived — always together, ­inseparable — at any children’s book gathering. Though they were small, tweedy, and rather ­unprepossessing, their ­encyclopedic knowledge of children’s books and their power (yes, power!) preceded them wherever they went. Now that I think of it, were they the first power couple in children’s books?

Jun 20, 2024 | hbook.com | Jack Gantos |Tanya Lee Stone |Steve Sheinkin |Alice Faye Duncan

How did I end up in the picture-book world? It was all because of Nicole Rubel, the brilliant illustrator of the Rotten Ralph books, among many others. I was a creative writing student at Emerson College, and I was still on parole after an unsuccessful attempt to smuggle a ton of hashish on a sailboat from St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, to New York City.