Do you remember Bread and Jam for Frances? How about Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind Family, about a Jewish immigrant family of five mischievous girls living with their parents on the upper east side of New York on the eve of World War I? That book made me want to be Jewish. I distinctly remember the part […]
The Treasures You Get When You Read a Book
Today, I’m posting a piece I wrote a while back. I’m pretty sure it was for a children’s writing contest entitled, “What it Means to Have a Book Available in Another Culture or Language.” Our essays had to speak to that question. Mine really only spoke to culture, which is one of the reasons it […]