HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Blue is for boys and pink is for girls, right? Wrong, author Leslea Newman told honor students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville during a presentation Thursday, Nov. 29, ...

When I was a little girl attending public school in northern New Jersey, I would get excited every time I saw a Jewish person represented in a story. Growing up on a steady diet of Dr. Seuss, “The ...

Lesléa Newman will receive the Matthew Shepard Foundation’s Making a Difference Award. Newman is the author of more than 70 books, including her iconic children’s book, Heather Has Two Mommies. The ...

There were no books about Jewish children when writer Lesléa Newman was growing up. “I was hungry for a book with characters like [me] to make me feel valid and normal, and to make me think there wasn ...

Books about LGBTQ younger generations living in rural settings helps to save lives. Characters, stories and landscape that young readers can connect with are always important. Gary Eldon Peter ...

Jewish comfort food showed up in one of Lesléa Newman’s first children’s books, “Matzo Ball Moon.” It has been making appearances in her work ever since. “[Food is] part of our every holiday, every ...

Leslea Newman adds a third title to her series of animal-themed romps (Cats, Cats, Cats! and Dogs, Dogs, Dogs!) with Pigs, Pigs, Pigs!, illus. by Erika Oller. Here, to welcome the pigs, the ...

Lesléa Newman has seen several of her book banned over gender identity and LGBTQ+ themes. As book bans thrive, she said it’s been frustrating to see the children who need her books the most unable to ...

Thirty years ago a child named Heather was poised to strike a national nerve simply for having two moms and being the protagonist of her own story. In 1989 the world of children’s literature was ...

Leslea Newman, author of “Heather has Two Mommies” and many Jewish titles, was recognized with a Sydney Taylor Book Award for her body of work. (JTA) — A picture book about the founder of the National ...

SPRINGFIELD – Leslea Newman, former Northampton poet laureate and author of the pioneering children’s book, “Heather Has Two Mommies,” will talk about how she came to write books for children on ...