Upcoming Events

May 2025, ZIGGY’S POTATO meets students at a Lower Merion Public School. When ordering books for a school event, please select pickup at school option on the order page and add your email to receive notifications. We do not send out any regular notifications and you may unsubscribe at any time after you place your order, but this is necessary to enable local school pickup. Please return to the order page to place your order. Thank you.

Spring 2025, ZIGGY’S POTATO returns to Upper Merion Area School District’s elementary schools.

Stay tuned for more events.

To set up school events, book club visits or other author appearances, email us using the Contact form on the Contact page of this website. As part of school events, Sharon is available to read and discuss creative written works by students. She has extensive experience critiquing poetry, picture books and fiction for middle grade, YA and adults.

THANK YOU FOR PAST EVENTS:

January 2025 ZIGGY’S POTATO met 6th grade students a synagogue school program.

Thank you to Jewish Learning Ventures for sponsoring Sharon Sorokin’s talk to congregational educations on What We Talk About with Children When We Talk About the Holocaust.

M Nero Nava radio show “I Want You To Know” interview with Sharon Sorokin about ZIGGY’S POTATO and music KPCR-LP 92.9FM KMRT-LP 101.9FM Santa Cruz, CA

Upper Merion School District for wonderful presentations at all of their elementary schools.

Temple Israel, Boston, MA presentation to students and families.

Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park, PA for Jewish authors panel discussion. In addition to talking about ZIGGY’S POTATO, A HOLOCAUST STORY, I was honored to be a co-panelist with two of my favorite authors - Stephanie Feldman (ANGEL OF LOSSES and SATURNALIA) and Nomie Eve (HENNA GIRLS, among others).

Friends Central School, Presentation of Ziggy’s Potato to 11th grade class on Literature of the Holocaust.

Natural Creative Resource Center, Presentation of Ziggy’s Potato to home school students ages 4 through 18; also provided writing critiques to student writers ages 7 through 17

Jewish Learning Ventures/jkidphilly online interview and talk with congregational educators, moderated by Julia Weekes.

ZIGGY MEETS 4th and 5th graders in Champaign, Illinois

Jewish Learning Ventures/jkidphilly online interview of Sharon Sorokin by Lisa Litman.

Hudson Art and Framing, Hudson, MA book talk and signing event.

Private Book Event sponsored by the Buzaglo family.

Panelist for a Virtual Screening and Discussion of The US and The Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein, sponsored by the Henrietta Hankin Libary in partnership with WETA & PBS Books. Sharon Sorokin joined by co-panelists Jonathan C. Friedman, Ph.D., Professor of History and Director of Graduate Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Chester University, and Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D. Rabbi Emeritus of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Associate Professor of Jewish History, and Scholar in Residence at the Holocaust Awareness Museum (HAMEC).

Book Launch and book signing at Narberth Bookshop with interview of Sharon Sorokin by best-selling author and Bikabow Books Advisory Council member Suzy Becker.