explaining the rationale.
Aileen Grossberg
Lampert Library
Congregation Shomrei Emunah
Montclair, NJ
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We have that book and I have always found it weird and disturbing. Though I
hear that it's done regularly in Israel, I'm generally uncomfortable with
introducing Holocaust to very young children; how can you relate something so
horrible without either watering it down or terrifying them? The
I've had a long career as a Jewish day school librarian in NYC. One of my
specialty areas is teaching students and professionals about appropriate
children's literature about tolerance and respecting diversity. Over the
years I have led workshops at the holocaust museum and other professional
Our school library has just received a donation of a book called "A time
for toys" by Margaret Wild - It has been more recently been published under
the title "Let the Celebration begin". Though the front covers are
different, the rest of the book is the same. In view of lots of discussion
about
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