One more: Feathers used to illustrate the harms of gossip
Forest, Heather. Feathers. Illustrated by Marcia Cutchin. Little Rock: August House Little Folk, 2005. ISBN: 0-87483-755-3. Rhyming text and colorful illustrations teach that hurtful words cannot be taken back easily once they are spoken. The author credits Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev with this tale. Rothenberg, Joan. Yettele's Feathers. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1995. ISBN: 0-7868-2081-0. The town gossip learns her lesson when the rabbi tells her to cut open a pillow and bring him all the feathers. Yettele realized that words cannot be taken back. Waldman, Debby. A Sack Full of Feathers. Illustrated by Cindy Revell. Vancouver: Orca Book Publishers, 2006. ISBN: 978-1-55143-332-5. Yankel loves to go around his village of Olkinik telling stories, often about other people. One day the rabbi gives Yankel the job of putting a feather on every doorstep in the village. Yankel completes this task as he thinks of the stories he will tell his schoolmates. When he returns to the rabbi's house, he is instructed to collect all the feathers and bring them back. As hard as he tries, Yankel cannot do it. From this exercise, Yankel learns that you cannot take back a story once it is told - "it goes where it goes, and you cannot say where or how or when." Shabbat Shalom, Kathe Pinchuck ----- Original Message ----- From: Eileen Polk<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 11:57 PM Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Multicultural stories Hello Friends, I have been asked to assist a teacher of multicultural literacy at a local college by reading to her students two versions of the same children's story, one Jewish and one something else. I have been looking through my sources, but am having trouble finding something, so I am turning to you. Does anyone have any suggestions? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Eileen Polk, Librarian Prentis Memorial Library Temple Beth El Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 __ 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] 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] 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 -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
__ 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] 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] 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 -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
