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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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…
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
Author Q&A on Deborah Kalb’s interview blog
Insightful questions about Honey and Me in this interview with Deborah Kalb (December 15, 2022): https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2022/12/q-with-meira-drazin.html
Interview on From the Mixed-Up Files… of middle-grade authors
Honored to be interviewed as an author on the children’s books blog I write for (and have conducted many author interviews on!) October 27, 2022: https://fromthemixedupfiles.com/interview-with-meira-drazin-author-of-honey-and-me/
Author Spotlight on Kidlit411
A lovely first “author interview” and giveaway on Kidlit411 blog (October 28, 2022): http://www.kidlit411.com/2022/10/author-spotlight-meira-drazin.html.
I wrote a whole blog post as an excuse to show off the Honey and Me mug my friend got me 💖
Some thoughts on Writing and Rituals [as first appeared on From the Mixed Up Files… Of Middle-Grade Authors on March 20, 2023.] Writers are known to have rituals. Light a candle, sit in your favourite chair, arrange your paperclips at right angles, and only then can/will the the magic at the keyboard begin. I’m not exactly…