Muriel Mandell works on her iPad at her apartment in downtown Manhattan s Greenwich Village. After a career as a reporter and schoolteacher, she began writing children s books, including A Donkey Reads, right. (Lori Silberman Brauner/ viaJTA)
New York Jewish Week via JTA Muriel Mandell shows few signs of slowing down as she nears her 100th birthday on August 19.
The former wartime reporter-turned children’s book author-turned tech-savvy senior continues to lead quite the active life, as a reporter learned while visiting her apartment recently in downtown Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
She’s still reviewing children’s books and taking classes. And as a founder of SeniorTechNYC at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan and its predecessor, the SeniorNet Learning Center, she teaches classes in animation, photo editing and Microsoft Word. During the pandemic, she has continued teaching the classes on Zoom.
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Highlights from the 2021 Latinx Children s Literature Conference By Gnesis Villar | Mar 11, 2021
On March 6, the Center for Children’s Literature at Bank Street College of Education in New York City hosted a virtual mini-conference on Latinx children’s literature. The conference’s third edition focused on Mexican American themes and featured David Bowles as the keynote speaker, who is the recipient of the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee’s 2019 Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry for
They Call Me Güero and two Pura Belpré Honors.
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Alexandra Aceves, editor at Junior Library Guild, served as moderator for the first panel, starting off by introducing each author before interrogating the very idea of Mexican American identity, asking: “What does Mexican American mean to you and where do you find yourself situated within that category? How does it shape your work, if i