Click IMG_0496 for a video of the award announcement! Press release of all the 2023 ALA Youth Media Award winners here.
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In the wild at Books of Wonder!
When I first wanted to write books for children I went down to Books of Wonder in NYC and spoke to a bookseller there about what new books kids were reading and loving (and came home with a huge haul to read and study.) Last Thursday I went down to see my own book on the…
A lovely feature in the Jewish Link about the parent-child Kushner event!
https://jewishlink.news/features/56016-author-meira-drazin-speaks-at-jkha
Book Club Event with Kushner’s PTA
This was a most special event that I am still on a high from. On the third night of Chanukah, the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy/Rae Kushner Yehiva High School (a Modern Orthodox day school in NJ)’s PTA (KPAC) sponsored an author visit where I spoke to parents and students about my journey to becoming an…
Author Visit at Beit Rabban Middle School
The most unflattering photos of me at the BEST event 😭. Also, I’m not sure why I’m looking down as I actually spoke off the cuff — I think the second photo must be from when I was reading a short excerpt from Honey and Me. In any case, I had the most wonderful time…
Book Signing at Scattered Books!
Thank you Laura and all the staff at Scattered Books in Chappaqua, NY for supporting Honey and Me in a wonderful pre-holiday book signing. Special treat to see a friend who used to live in London and now lives in New York come in with her daughter 💜
Honey and Me makes the list for Kirkus’s BEST 20 BOOKS TO READ In October!!!!
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/20-best-books-read-october-2022/#our-missing-hearts-ng
Guest Post on Scholastic’s OOM Blog
Jewish Joy by Meira Drazin, author of ‘Honey and Me’ Guest Blogger // Sep 22, 2022 When I think of Rosh Hashanah, the upcoming Jewish New Year, my senses swarm with childhood memories: smooth velvet synagogue dresses, the smell of my mother’s honey cakes baking, our congregation’s voices lifted as one in song and prayer,…