Counting on Naamah: A Mathematical Tale on Noah’s Ark
by Erica Lyons
Illustrated by Mary Uhles
Intergalactic Afikoman
5 September 2023
Rosie Revere Engineer meets Noah’s Ark! What if Naamah, Noah’s wife, was actually a math and engineering whiz? Enjoy this fun, zany, and girl-powered take on the traditional Noah’s Ark story.
Available on Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, and more.
Tablet Magazine’s The Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2023
“Filled with mathematical puns and cheerful illustrations by Mary Reaves Uhles (try to find [Read More]
by Erica Lyons
illustrated by Jennifer Jamieson
Apples & Honey Press
March 2022
National Jewish Book Awards Finalist
Mira practices the Four Questions on her apartment balcony and finds a way to bring the neighborhood together for Passover even during the separation of a pandemic. It’s a book about empathy, community, coming together, and finding a silver lining.
It was the year of singing with one another. No one was together, but no one was alone.
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by Erica Lyons
Illustrated by Renia Metallinou
Kar-Ben/ Lerner
September 2023
Long ago in China, a girl named Zhen Yu wanders away from her father at a busy market. A mysterious fortune teller helps Zhen Yu’s father find her, but also warns him that one day his daughter will be bitten by a snake on her wedding night. Years later, as Zhen Yu is dressing for her wedding, a knock comes on [Read More]
On a Chariot of Fire: The Story of India’s Bene Israel
by Erica Lyons
Illustrated by Siona Benjamin
Levine Querido
September 3, 2024
Available at B&N, Amazon, and your local bookseller
Featuring the other side of the Hanukkah story, A Chariot of Fire follows the Bene Israel community, as they flee Israel to find a new home in India.
Two thousand years ago, a ship sailed east, alone on [Read More]
by Erica Lyons and Christina Matula,
Illustrated by Tracy Subisak
Quill Tree, 10 September 2024
Starred reviews from Kirkus, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly
Available at B&N, Amazon, and your local bookseller
This beautiful tribute to fall festivals—Mid-Autumn Festival and Sukkot—celebrates family, multicultural heritage, and the bounty of the season.
It’s time for Ruby and her family to celebrate two extra-special harvest holidays. For the Mid-Autumn Festival, she and Nainai pick out fruit, nuts, and red chrysanthemums from the [Read More]
| Saliman and the Memory Stone
by Erica Lyons Illustrated by Yinon Ptahia Apples & Honey Press, May 8, 2024 When young Saliman’s family left Yemen in 1881 to move to Jerusalem there were so many things they could not take along. Promising to remember it all, even the names of each their goats and the color of their fur, he clutched his memory stone, a piece of his house that he kept in his pocket, as a way to keep [Read More] |
Lily’s Hong Kong Honey Cake
by Erica Lyons
Illustrated by Bonnie Pang
Apples & Honey Press/ Behrman House
Fall 2025 (forthcoming)
A young Jewish refugee who holds onto a sense of home as her family moves from Vienna to Shanghai and then Hong Kong, set across 10 years of Rosh Hashanah celebrations from 1937 to 1946.