Dear Anna,
In response to your HaSafran posting: there are so many children s
books of Jewish content that are out of print, that I think your request
for titles needs an organizing principle. I would suggest using the Sydney
Taylor Body-of-Work awards as the first priority and individual STBA
winners as the second.
For example, Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Body-of-Work award in 1971. His
OP titles include:
A Day of Pleasure and Other Stories for Children
Why Noah Chose the Dove
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories
The Golem
The Fearsome Inn
The Wicked City
Mazel and Shlimazel: Or the Milk of the Lioness
The Topsy Turvy Emperor of China
Alone in the Wild Forest
The Fools of Chelm and Their History
Joseph and Koza: Or the Sacrifice to the Vistula
Naftali, the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus
The next Sydney Taylor Body of Work winner was Marilyn Hirsh. Her OP
titles include:
Where Is Yonkele?
The Rabbi and the Twenty Nine Witches
Captain Jiri and Rabbi Jacob
Deborah the Dybbuk
The Tower of Babel
I Love Hanukkah
Hannibal and His Thirty Seven Elephants
I Love Passover
Could Anything Be Worse?
Potatoes Pancakes All Around
The Hanukkah Story
K tonton In the Circus
Ben Goes Into Business
The House On the Roof
Joseph Who Loved the Sabbath
One Little Goat
These long lists of O.P. titles by two of the finest authors of
Jewish children s books exemplify the extent of the problem and the
difficulties in preparing a randomly generated list of such titles. If you
only followed the organizing principle that I suggest (above), the list
would still run to hundreds of titles.
Linda R. Silver, Librarian
Jewish Education Center of Cleveland
2030 S. Taylor Rd.
Cleveland Hts., OH 44118
216-371-8288, ext. 128
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