Category: Books

Mitzvah the Mutt by Sylvia Rouss has just been named the Bronze Medalist in the 2010 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards in the Juvenile Fiction – Early Reader/1st Chapter books category! From the Moonbeam Awards site: “The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books…

I am so pleased with the response to my new book about Mitzvah the Mutt.  I so enjoyed this blog Minnesota Mamaleh:About A Puppy that I have listed Galit’s blog as one of my new favorites.  I know you will like her thoughts and observations on Jewish parenting and life. …

I am pleased to share this announcement from the American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro, which announced the publication of “A Circle of Smiles” in their newsletter: “We are getting closer to the first printing of “A Circle of Smiles,” the book that will teach young children about their peers…

I was so happy to receive this note from Dr. Debra Hoffman, my veterinarian. She wrote: Dear Sylvia, I just finished reading Mitzvah the Mutt.  What an adorable book!!!  I loved it!  I had a mutt named Mitzvah – a black cockapoo – and I can hear her thinking just…

I just read my first review of Mitzvah the Mutt, and it was wonderful!! In the Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter for May/June 2010, Andrea Davidson, Temple Tifereth Israel, Beachwood, Ohio wrote: Readers will laugh at Mitzvah’s zany misadventures,…Rouss uses Mitzvah’s humorous interpretations of the celebrations and his reactions to…