![]() As an adult, I hadn’t read it in a long time and didn’t remember the name of the author, so when I looked up Sydney Taylor and saw that she had written it, I immediately choked up. ![]() She would also read us board books and things, but that was the chapter book. Tyler Feder: Growing up, I was the kid who never won anything, so it was so exciting to win an award, especially for a book I poured my soul into! But the mushy reason I’m especially honored is that my mom used to read me and my sisters a chapter of All-of-a-Kind Family before bed each night when we were little. Shoshana Flax: What does the Sydney Taylor Book Award mean to you? Feder’s look back at her mother’s illness and death is poignant, honest, and full of specific details that make it easy to feel like you know young Tyler and her family - including lots of naturally integrated references to Jewish practices around death, and to Jewish life. ![]() Welcome to our stop on the 2021 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour! Author Tyler Feder was kind enough to answer my questions about Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir (Dial), this year’s Gold Medal winner in the Young Adult category. ![]()
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