Laura Amy Schlitz Earns Accolades in List of Best Children’s Books
Two books by Lower School Librarian and best-selling children’s book author Laura Amy Schlitz were recently included in a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) list of “20 Best Children’s Books of the Past 20 Years.”
WSJ book reviewer Meghan Cox Gurdon named The Bearskinner (Candlewick, 2007) as Best Illustrated Folk or Fairy Tale. Laura’s The Hired Girl (Candlewick, 2015) received acknowledgement as a runner up for Best Historical Novel.
The Winter of the Dollhouse, Laura’s newest book, will be released September 2, 2025 (Candlewick).
Laura is a nationally recognized children’s author. In 2008, she won the Newbery Medal for Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, a series of monologues she wrote for fifth grade classes at Park. A novel, Splendors and Glooms, was a 2013 Newbery Honor winner. The Hired Girl, published in 2015, won a Gold Medal in the Sydney Taylor Book Award’s Teen category, a National Jewish Book Award for Young Adult Literature, and a Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Amber and Clay earned five starred reviews and was named to several lists of best books for children and middle grades, including Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Horn Book, and Booklist. It was given an Honor in the annual Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children, National Council of Teachers of English.
About the Winter of the Dollhouse:
This captivating coming-of-age story is touching, funny, and beautifully layered, with a fairy-tale ending that only Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz could deliver.
On a gloomy November night, eleven-year-old Tiphany Stokes saves an old lady from collapsing in the street. An antique doll named Gretel watches them, longing for Tiph to rescue her from life in a shop window. Though none of these three characters realizes it, their worlds are about to change: Gretel will no longer be a precious prisoner. The old lady—is she a witch?—will discover the secret hidden in her long-neglected dollhouse. And Tiph—whose parents rejoice that she is “never any trouble”—will become a thief, a dog walker, an actor, and best of all, a friend.
And check out this interview with Laura in School Library Journal about her new book — and other topics!
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