Yesterday we had a speaker, Joani Keller Rothenberg, whom I would like to recommend to anyone looking for a program on Jewish childrens books.
Joani has illustrated three Jewish childrens books (Cain and Abel, The Shabbat Angels, and Adam and Eve's first sunset). She is currently working on illustrations for a Reconstructionist children's prayer book. She is also an art therapist. Her program is "Creating modern midrash through art". She talked to a group of adults about her illustrations, how the creative process between author, publisher, and illustrator developed the pictures, and the Jewish values she strives to convey. The highlight of our event was when Joani read the story "Adam and Eve's first sunset" to a group of children that joined the group towards the end. They discussed afterwards the themes from the book: what were Adam and Eve afraid of, what did Adam and Eve do when they were afraid; what are you are afraid of, and what can you do. The adults were engrossed in the dynamics of the discussion! Shari Buxbaum ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
