SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2024/11/creature-double-feature-part-i-deke.html

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For the month of November 2024, we've got a 2-part series, CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE: ANTISEMITISM AND THE SUPERNATURAL. Our first guest is Deke Moulton, author of Don't Want to Be Your Monster (about Jewish vampires) and Benji Zeb Is a Ravenous Werewolf (about Jewish werewolves).

These middle grade fantasy novels go beyond simple adventures with supernatural heroes. I love how they both delve deeply into the very nature of prejudice. I love how they both imagine worlds in which kids defeat hate. AND they are also fun, fast paced magical adventure stories.

Creature Double Feature Part II is an interview with Emi Watanabe Cohen about her dragon and golem middle grade novels, The Lost Ryū and Golemcrafters, which make great companions to Deke's books.

LEARN MORE:

• Creature Double Feature Part II with Emi Watanabe Cohen
• Deke's website DekeMoulton.com and Instagram @dekewritesstuff
• Buy / borrow Don't Want to Be Your Monster
• Buy/ borrow Benji Zeb Is a Ravenous Werewolf
• Tikkun Olam: donate to Wolfhaven, and learn about keystone species
• Background on Jewish werewolves in sacred texts
• Star Trek reference to the yetzer hatov and yetzer hara in The Enemy Within
• Deke's reading recommendations:
  - Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
  - Max in the House of Spies by Adam Gidwitz
  - Impossible Escape by Steve Sheinkin
  - ...and a reading rec from Heidi: Tale of the Flying Forest by R.M. Romero
• List of Jewish fantasy titles featured on past podcast episodes