Shakespeare's Kitchen
Thirteen interrelated stories, seven of which appeared in the New Yorker, about the longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them.
1. Novels
Her First American
Young Ilka from Vienna learns about America by loving a middle-aged black journalist on the skids.
Other People's Houses
The journey of a Jewish refugee child from Vienna via England and the Dominican Republic to New York.
2. Picture Books
More Mole Stories and Little Gopher Too
An Anne Schwartz Book Newly released by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Simon & Schuster
Why Mole Shouted and Other Stories
Four sweet and funny stories by Lore Segal and Sergio Ruzzier about Mole and his Grandmother Mole.
The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless her Cat
Mrs. Lovewright and the cat who wouldn't purr.
Pictures by Caldecott-winning artist Paul O. Zelinsky
Morris the Artist
Morris won’t give the birthday boy the present he has brought him.
Tell Me a Mitzi
Pictures by Harriet Pincus
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
3. Fairy Tales
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm
A selection of the Grimm fairy tales
Translated by Lore Segal and Randall Jarrell
Pictures by Maurice Sendak
