much easier, I think, not to try and get the story just right in the first draft, to leave that for the second and third drafts. My best stories have been rewritten scores of times.” As of September 2016, Adler has three sons and five grandsons. He lives in Woodmere, New York. Adler has won many awards including the Knickerbocker Award for his body of work, the 2017 Regina Medal for his body of work from the Catholic Library Association, the California Young Readers' Medal for his book "The Babe and I," The 2006 Storytelling World Award for "Joe Louis: America's Fighter," the 2006 Children's Gallery Award for "Mama Played Baseball," The Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor for "Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man," and The Sydney Taylor ALJ Award for "The Number on My Grandfather's Arm." Regina Award in 2017 and the Orthodox Jewish All-Star Award also in 2017. Menucha Classroom Solutions, an imprint of Menucha Publishers has published new titles by Adler in 2018 with new titles forthcoming later in the year. Books Cam Jansen mystery series A series of books following the exploits of a fifth-grade female detective named Jennifer "Cam" Jansen and her best friend Eric. Nicknamed Cam for her photographic memory, the protagonist closes her eyes and says "click" at various points in a story, mimicking the noise of a camera while memorizing a scene in front of her. She later recalls these scenes to aid in solving a mystery. The Cam Jansen character was based on an elementary school classmate of Adler's who was believed to have a photographic memory. A stage musical based on the character Cam Jansen and novels was produced by Theatreworks USA Off-Broadway in 2004. The musical has music by Laurence O'Keefe and lyrics and a book by Nell Benjamin. Young Cam Jansen series Holocaust books for young readers The Number on My Grandfather's Arm (1987) We Remember the Holocaust (1989) A Picture Book of Anne Frank (1993) Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust (1994) One Yellow Daffodil: A Hanukkah Story (1995) Child of the Warsaw Ghetto (1995) Hiding from the Nazis (1997) A Hero and the Holocaust: The Story of Janusz Korczak and His Children (2003) Bones mystery series Bones and the Big Yellow Mystery (2004) Bones and the Dog Gone Mystery (2004) Bones and the Cupcake Mystery (2005) Bones and the Dinosaur Mystery (2005) Bones and the Birthday Mystery