I don't agree with everything you said re negatives in your review,
Linda, but you captured the essence of what this book is about. And I
*do* agree with your comments below - well said, Linda!
B'shalom,
Bernard.
Bernard Katz, former head, Special Collections and Library Development
McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph
author, descriptive bibliog. of L.M. Montgomery's books (in progress)
and founding treasurer, AJL - Ontario Chapter
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Linda Silver wrote:
>This review appeared in the Nov./Dec. 2004 issue of the AJL Newsletter:
...[snip - no need to repeat]...
>Three Wishes has been available and in library collections for
>well over a year. In my review, I tried to capture both its
>strengths and its weaknesses. Few books, no matter what their
>subject, are without some flaws. Not every book concerning the
>Israeli-Palestinian conflict is going to express only the Israeli
>point of view. Nor should it. To be well informed and to be able to
>make reasonable critical judgments, kids need to know more than one
>side of an issue. Of course some of the Palestinian kids support
>suicide bombings; to exclude or edit out all of those opinions is to
>distort the issue and delude readers. The voices of the children
>interviewed in the book express not facts but opinion and we know,
>all too well, that in the opinion of many Palestinians, suicide
>bombings are legitimate. Let's give the readers of this book some
>credit for being able to separate the atrocious from the acceptable.
>
>There is often a fine and fragile line between selecting books
>about Israel and censoring those that depart from the Israeli
>position or what we, as Jews, believe. Inaccuracies, bias, or skewed
>interpretations are not acceptable to me as a reviewer but in the
>case of subjective opinion, as expressed by the children interviewed
>in Three Wishes, I would err on the side of inclusion, if that is the
>alternative to censorship.
>Linda Silver
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