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The keeper of stories

When a fire break out at the Jewish Theological Seminary library, helping hands from across the community rally together to save the books and preserve the stories within the pages. Includes factual backmatter on the Jewish Theological Seminary fire of 1966.

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Main Author: Pritchard, Caroline Kusin (Author)
Other Authors: Alko, Selina (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Libraries > Juvenile fiction.
Fires > Juvenile fiction.
Jews > United States > Juvenile fiction.
Communities > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
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Summary:When a fire break out at the Jewish Theological Seminary library, helping hands from across the community rally together to save the books and preserve the stories within the pages. Includes factual backmatter on the Jewish Theological Seminary fire of 1966.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Audience:Ages 4-8.
Grades 2-3.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781665914970
1665914971
Author Notes:Caroline Kusin Pritchard grew up as the youngest of four children in Dallas, Texas, where she spent her childhood writing poems and reciting them to her loyal fanbase of stuffed animals. She is the author of many children's books, including Gitty and Kvetch , The Day the Books Disappeared , and The Keeper of Stories , which is a Sydney Taylor Book Award Picture Book Honor, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and received three starred reviews. She has an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and their four kiddos. Visit CarolineKusinPritchard.com to learn more.

Selina Alko grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, surrounded by the melody of words and stories from different places. Selina's books include The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage , Daddy Christmas and Hanukkah Mama , Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport , and I Is for Immigrants , which garnered a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators. She also illustrated The Keeper of Stories , a Sydney Taylor Book Award Picture Book Honor. Selina lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her children and her cat Czen. Visit her work at SelinaAlko.com.

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