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…
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…
Guest Post on Purim for SCBWI-British Isles Magazine
I’m thrilled to share an essay I wrote for the Representation column of SCBWI-BI’s Words & Pictures magazine: it’s about the Jewish holiday of Purim, depicting the holiday in Honey and Me, antisemitism, Jewish joy, and school visits. REPRESENTATION Purim 6 MINUTE READ Purim is a Jewish holiday commemorating the saving of Jewish people in…