Levine Querido and the 100K Books Challenge

 

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    🕮    Levine Querido is an independent publishing house founded by legendary editor Arthur Levine. He left his own imprint, Arthur A. Levine Books at Scholastic after 23 years, and he started Levine Querido in 2019 to showcase gorgeous diverse books by creators from underrepresented backgrounds - and he's been very successful, winning award after award.

For a non-Jewish publisher, Levine Querido publishes a lot of Jewish books, so I've been wanting to chat with Arthur for a while. When he announced that Team LQ had set a goal to sell 100,000 books by September 1st of this year, I knew it was the right time to have him on the show.

LEARN MORE:

• LQ's 100K Books Challenge
• Levine Querido website
• Arthur's Tikkun Olam suggestion: VOTE!

BOOKS MENTIONED:

• When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb
• Big Dreams, Small Fish by Paula Cohen
  
• Am I Blue? edited by Marion Dane Bauer
• Aviva vs the Dybbuk and The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman by Mari Lowe
• Desert Queen by Jyoti Gopal, illustrated by Svabhu Kohli
  
• Ways to Play by Lyn Miller-Lachmann, illustrated by Gabriel Alborozo
  
• The Lost Ryū and Golemcrafters by Emi Watanabe Cohen
• On a Chariot of Fire by Erica Lyons, illustrated by Siona Benjamin

CREDITS:

• Produced by Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel
• Co-sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries
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