Says that she came to library work “through the back door”. For over twenty-five years, Anne was a teacher of French and English in elementary schools, a teacher-librarian in a French immersion school in Winnipeg, and a librarian at Holy Blossom Temple (Toronto).

Anne has published over twelve books of historical fiction or non-fiction for young people. Many of them explore the Jewish experience in Canada. She likes to focus on people and events that are not well known, for she believes these stories should be told. Several of these books, like Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything and 44 Hours or Strike! received awards and/or nominations.

Anne’s interest in Jewish storytelling has prompted her to revive a Jewish Storytelling Circle in Toronto. Once a month, people squeeze into her living room to tell and listen to all kinds of Jewish stories, and to share the joy these stories bring.

Is a retired teacher and a writer of non- fiction books for middle grade and young adult readers. During her long teaching career in the Maritimes, Marjorie founded a branch of the Children’s Literature Roundtables,
bringing Canadian authors into classrooms.

These activities drew her into reviewing and writing children’s books. She has since written two history books for young readers with co-author Janet Willen (her sister): Five Thousand Years of Slavery (Tundra, 2010) and Speak a Word for Freedom: Women Against Slavery (Penguin Random House/Tundra, 2015).

In 1998, she and her husband returned to Toronto and she began teaching in a private
school.

Marjorie is passionate about working against anti-Israel bias in schools. She reviews children’s and YA books for CAMERA (the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis), and lectures on the topic: “Literature or Propaganda? How They Write about the Arab-Israel Conflict”.

The daughter of Holocaust survivors. She was the first in her family to be born in Canada. She was raised in Toronto in a Yiddish-speaking, strictly secular home.

Caroline worked for almost fifty years with the Toronto Public Library—as Branch Head, Selector for Adult and Children’s Books, Booktalker, Storyteller and Puppeteer. In 2018, Caroline retired and is now the volunteer librarian at Holy Blossom Temple (Toronto), where she works with people of all ages.