The Jewish Youngsters’s E book Awards will return for a last time in 2026. Run by Inexperienced Bean Books and The Jewish Literary Basis, the awards highlight unique, unpublished tales by UK and European Jewish writers and illustrators for kids aged 4–8. Entries should draw on Jewish historical past, values or traditions.
The profitable story receives £1,000, and all entries are thought-about for publication by Inexperienced Bean Books — a uncommon likelihood for brand new and established writers to realize recognition and see their but unpublished work in print.
Judges embrace PJ Library’s Chris Barash, Inexperienced Bean’s Michael Leventhal, illustrator Omer Hoffmann, Israel Museum curator Orna Granot, and Jewish Renaissance editor Rebecca Taylor. Michael Leventhal says: “We actually wish to discover thrilling, modern tales and uncover how Jewish themes are explored in recent, new methods.”
Go to greenbeanbooks.com/JCBA2026. Submissions shut on Wednesday, November fifth 2025 at 5pm
In the meantime a stunning story in your children is And Eddie Had an Egg by Dina Leifer (Inexperienced Bean Books UK)
Creator Dina Leifer transforms what might be a tedious story of a fussy eater right into a heat, relatable journey. Born from Leifer’s real-life mealtime standoffs together with her personal son, the guide nudges younger readers towards curiosity (and perhaps even broccoli). The story about cussed little Eddie has a heimishe really feel that youngsters will recognise as loving persistence mixed with the ever-present hope that at this time is likely to be the day they fight one thing new.
Do you have to get an opportunity to quiet down with guide this summer time, My Different Half by David Isaacson (Ace of Swords Publishing) is an ideal selection.
After David Isaacson interviewed our Life journal editor about her Midas Man Brian Epstein biopic Midas Man for Jerusalem Submit, she felt obligation sure to plug his guide. Not a lot of a reader — each novel looks like homework — as soon as she began My Different Half, she was in as a result of she preferred Jake, the Nineteen Seventies scholar anti-hero, who dabbles in medicine and does his greatest to dodge maturity. Then, fairly instantly, he results in Israel — and that’s when the story shifts. It’s nonetheless humorous, however now there’s a head-on collision of previous and current, heritage and hedonism, plus a messy romance with the elusive Diana. However meet her for your self. This coming-of-age story asks whether or not the ‘different half’ we’re trying to find would possibly simply be hidden in ourselves — or perhaps in Jerusalem.
