Born and brought up in Brooklyn, New York, Eric A. Kimmel is a professor emeritus of education at Portland State University. Kimmel has written more than fifty picture books and novels. Known for his adaptations and retellings of folktales from around the world, particularly Yiddish tales, he has received the Caldecott Medal and the Sydney Taylor Picture Book Award.
These three men ceased replying to Job, for he considered himself right. Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry—angry at Job because he thought himself…
This phantasmagoric portrait of poet and playwright Daniel Levi (Miguel) de Barrios and his family is from Imperio de Dios en la harmonia del mundo(God’s Empire in the Harmony of the World), a…
There is a certain place where dumb-waiters boom, doors slam, dishes crash; every window is a mother’s mouth bidding the street shut up, go skate somewhere else, come home. My voice is the loudest. […