Chana Stiefel

Chana Stiefel is the award-winning author of more than 30 books for children, both fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent picture book is Let’s Fly!, co-written with Captain Barrington Irving, who broke the record as the youngest person and first Black man to fly solo around the world. The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs received many honors, including the 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Award, a Robert F. Sibert Honor, the Margaret Wise Brown Prize, and the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature. Chana’s other titles include Let Liberty Rise: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty (nominated for the California Young Reader Medal 2025-2026), My Name is Wakawakaloch (nominated for the UNICEF Prize in Children’s Literature), as well as Mendel’s Hanukkah Mess Up, Bravo, Avocado, and Daddy Depot. Chana loves to visit schools and libraries to share her passion for reading and writing with children. She is represented by agent Miranda Paul. Learn more at chanastiefel.com.