I was so honored to find out that Honey and Me was shortlisted for the New Jersey Library Association’s 2024-2025 Garden State Book Award! Congratulations to all the winners! And in thrilling news: Honey and Me has been nominated for the 2026 Nēnē Award: Hawai’i’s Children’s Choice Book Award! Each spring Hawaiʻi’s fourth through sixth…
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A very special review 😭
I imagine it’s always a mixed experience reading reviews of your work. I know for me there’s definitely some stomach-clenching beforehand–has the reviewer “received” the book in the way it was intended? Did it touch them and affect them? Sometimes there are wonderful surprises, like when a reviewer is able to articulate your project in…
Author Visits 2023-2024
I stopped posting about individual school visits on my website but that doesn’t mean I’ve stopped doing them! In the 2023-2024 school year I spoke with hundreds of students ages 9-14 in author presentations and writing workshops in schools. I also did some fabulous community parent-child events as well as book talks for adults. In one incredible event…
IN CELEBRATION OF JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, Interview on the Scholastic OOM Blog
IN CELEBRATION OF JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, I spoke with Scholastic about Honey and Me, friendship, and Jewish joy in Children’s literature as an antidote to antisemistism. Honey & Me Celebrates Friendship May 2, 2024 This post was written by Brooks Jewell, Director, Scholastic Internal Communications. In her author’s note, Meira Drazin, author of Honey and Me,…
Super fun visit with Years 3 & 4
I had the BEST time doing an author visit and writing workshops with Years 3 and 4 at the very special Naima JPS. The students were engaged, enthusiastic and a dream to work with. To be honest, I was super nervous beforehand because I didn’t want to let down or embarrass a certain Y3 student…
Honey and Me shortlisted for the 2023/24 Hackmatack Award!
Wow, how cool! Honey and Me has been shortlisted in the English language fiction category of The Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award–a literary program designed for young readers and based in Atlantic Canada. Each year, thousands of children in grades four to six read from the selection of outstanding Canadian books and vote for their…
Horn Book features HONEY AND ME on its We Need Diverse Muslim and Jewish Books: An Update List!!
I am so honored that Honey and Me was featured in the May/June 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine in a special article by Sadaf Siddique and Heidi Rabinowitz on “We Need Diverse Muslim and Jewish Books: An Update.” You can see the whole article here: The Horn Book
School Library Journal feature
Thank you to Marlaina Cockcroft for this amazing article in School Library Journal about recent Jewish-themed books that show a diversity of characters and genres and for highlighting Honey and Me …and me 😃!
Honey and Me on Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Books of the Year 2023 Edition
Library Book Club Chat
I adore doing author visits and this was one was particularly fun because the kids at Henry Waldinger Memorial Library in Valley Stream, NY had already all read Honey and Me and had the best questions!