Reviews – Page 8 – Janet Ruth Heller

Bonnie Ferrante’s review of my chapter book The Passover Surprise and her interview with me about The Passover Surprise and my fiction picture book How the Moon Regained Her Shape

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:January 29, 2017
Post category:Book Review Books Bullying Chapter Book Children's Literature Jewish Families Jewish Traditions Literature Multicultural Literature Picture Book Reviews Sibling Rivalry

Recently, author and blogger Bonnie Ferrante reviewed my fiction chapter book The Passover Surprise and also interviewed me about The Passover Surprise and my fiction picture book How the Moon Regained Her Shape. The title of her review is “How Do You Deal with an Unfair Father?” In this essay about The Passover Surprise, Ferrante praises the book and writes, “Children will connect with Lisa and find helpful advice on how to approach difficult discussions with their own parents.” (more…)

Review of Janet Ruth Heller’s Chapter Book The Passover Surprise in Hadassah Magazine in December 2016 by Gloria Goldreich

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:January 22, 2017
Post category:Book Review Books Chapter Book Children's Literature Fiction Jewish Families Jewish Traditions Literature Multicultural Literature Reviews Sibling Rivalry

Novelist Gloria Goldreich reviewed Janet Ruth Heller’s middle-grade chapter book The Passover Surprise in Hadassah Magazine in December 2016 (page 69). Here is the review. In Janet Ruth Heller’s The Passover Surprise (illustrated by Ronald Kauffman; Fictive Press, 48 pp. $11), Jewish traditions, stamp collecting, sibling rivalry and familial affection are all part of the story of Lisa, who craves a “big blue stamp album” as a gift for finding the afikomen. Readers will root for Lisa and a happy holiday. Hadassah Magazine covers politics, news, social issues, and culture. It has a paid print circulation of over 250,000. The Passover Surprise is available for online purchase from Fictive Press at http://fictivepress.com/children-ya.htm#Passover

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.