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Laura Gehl

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Following the Sydney Taylor Honor, Laura Gehl's MY BODY CAN Keeps Winning!

Congratulations to author Laura Gehl and illustrator Alexandra Colombo and publisher Apples & Honey for the Grinspoon Jewish Stories Award and as finalist for the Foreward INDIES picture book of the year!!

https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/my-body-can/
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Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour: A Talk with Laura Gehl and Alexandra Colombo About My Body Can on Fuse 8

"My favorite picture books are those where the art is essential to understanding the whole story, and that was the goal with this book. Isn’t it amazing that if you just heard the words of this story, you wouldn’t know it was a Jewish book at all? I also hope that leaving the holidays unnamed makes MY BODY CAN feel personal and relevant to every kid who reads it, including kids who are not Jewish and Jewish kids who don’t celebrate all of these holidays. Yes, the kids in the book are Jewish, and we see them celebrating Jewish holidays. But from building to dancing to hide and seek, the actions of the characters are universal actions that any kid of any religion or culture might undertake." — Author Laura Gehl

https://afuse8production.slj.com/2026/02/09/sydney-taylor-book-award-blog-tour-a-talk-with-laura-gehl-and-alexandra-colombo-about-my-body-can/
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Author of THE ELEVATOR ON 74th STREET Laura Gehl's WOMEN OF THE WIND: THE ALL-FEMALE SAILING CREW THAT RACED AROUND THE WORLD, the story of the team Tracy Edwards put together to enter the male-dominated Whitbread Round the World sailing race and the team's determination to show what they could do over the course of the 9-month-long, 33,000-mile competition, illustrated by Kamilla Sims, to Christopher Robbins at Familius, for publication in fall 2027, by Erzsi Deak at Hen&ink for the author (world).

https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/deals/ss.cgi?d=542716
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We're delighted that Donut/Rosquilla by Laura Gehl and Andrea Zuill will be flying with the bilingual program of the Dollywood Foundation's Imagination Library for 2026!

 

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774413/donutrosquilla-spanish-english-bilingual-edition-by-laura-gehl-illustrated-by-andrea-zuill-translated-by-yanitzia-canetti/
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MY BODY CAN by Laura Gehl (illustrated by Alessandra Colombo) is a Fall 2025 Association of Jewish Libraries Holiday Highlights selection.

https://jewishlibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Fall-2025-List-Holiday-Highlights.pdf
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Author of ORSON AND THE WORLD'S LOUDEST LIBRARY and the forthcoming THE ELEVATOR ON 74th STREET Laura Gehl's THE SUNSET CATCHER'S DAUGHTER, a fairytale about how pleasures are greater when shared, reminding us that “the way it has always been” is not the way it always needs to be, illustrated by Erin Brown, to Sarah Rockett at Sleeping Bear Press, for publication in spring 2027, by Erzsi Deak at Hen&ink for the author.

https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/deals/ss.cgi?d=531127
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Author of DONUT and THE HIKING VIKING Laura Gehl's ORSON, a love letter to libraries, about a boy who takes matters into his own hands when the library gets too noisy and discovers the value of letting a little noise into our lives, illustrated by STAR STUFF and SPRING AFTER SPRING illustrator Stephanie Roth Sisson, to Leonard Marcus while at Astra Young Readers, with Suzy Krogulski editing, for publication in spring 2025, by Erzsi Deak at Hen&ink for the author, and by Abigail Samoun at Red Fox Literary for the illustrator (world).

https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/deals/ss.cgi?d=421450
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Author of ORSON AND THE WORLD'S LOUDEST LIBRARY Laura Gehl's BUNNIES KNOW & GROW and PUPPIES KNOW & GROW, teaching readers what baby bunnies and puppies know from birth and how they develop as they grow, illustrated by Amy Schimler-Safford, to Emma Parkin at Barefoot Books, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Erzsi Deak at Hen&ink for the author, and by Marietta Zacker at Gallt and Zacker Literary Agency for the illustrator (world).

https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/deals/ss.cgi?d=524167