I have it under adult as well. I find it really irritating when parents tell me how they’re reading it out loud to their mature 3rd or 4th grader and isn’t that wonderful?! I tell them how many great choices there are for that age group and kids will get much more out of it if they wait until high school. Same with Diary of Anne Frank. Arghhh.
Toby Toby Harris, Librarian Temple De Hirsch Sinai 1511 E. Pike Street Seattle, WA 98122 206-315-7398 Seattle 206-323-8486, Ext 7481 Bellevue Visit our online catalog at http://lib.tdhs-nw.org Over 10,000 Judaic books & CDs! Regular Library Hours: Sundays 9-12:30 plus Thurs 1-6 in Seattle & Wed 10:30-1:30 in Bellevue From: hasafran-bounces+tharris=tdhs-nw....@lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:hasafran-bounces+tharris=tdhs-nw....@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Andrea Rapp Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 12:52 PM To: Paula Sandfelder; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Book Thief I classify and shelve it with the adult fiction, which is what its author intended. My understanding is that American publishers us the YA designation for marketing, and any book whose main character is a young person will get that label today. Were The Diary of Anne Frank, or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to be published today, they would be classified as YA books. Andrea ________________________________ From: Paula Sandfelder <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 2:46 PM Subject: [ha-Safran] Book Thief Friends, Now that the book “Book Thief” is a movie, I have a question for school librarians. Do you think the book is appropriate for children? I asked this question of the author when the book first came out. He responded that that was not his intention, but that it was marketed that way in the USA by the publisher and cataloged as such in the USA . Personally, I would not have recommended the book for children or even young adults unless they knew a great deal about the Shoah and were very mature. Paula Sandfelder __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org<http://www.jewishlibraries.org/> -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
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