Laurie A. Jacobs

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Short Stories

"Stargazing" in Cricket Magazine, January 1992, volume 19, number 5. Illustrations by Hilary Knight.

"The Finest Sukkah in the World," in Cricket Magazine, October 2004, volume 32, number 2. Illustrations by Wendy Edelson.

Selected Works

Picture Book

Silly Frilly Grandma Tillie, with illustrations by Anne Jewett (Flashlight Press, 2012)

"[this] capricious tale will have young girls wishing for a silly grandma just like Tillie, especially if she can hang a spoon from her nose." Kirkus Reviews *****Silly Frilly Grandma Tillie has been announced as a winner of the Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award. See the book page for more information.

A Box of Candles, with illustrations by Shelly Schonebaum Ephraim (Boyds Mills Press 2005)

Winner of the 2005 National Jewish Book Award for Family Literature and a 2006 Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Younger Readers

So Much In Common, with illustrations by Valeri Gorbachev (Boyds Mills Press 1994)

A hippo and an antelope seem to have nothing in common, but become good friends.

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