Susan >Do any of you have ideas of a suitable book... as a Grade 5 Graduation gift? > Oh! Bless me, but I suddenly feel a story coming on:
When I was a kid, precisely at Shavuot time, my little sister gave me a little song book with 18 jewish holiday songs in it which she had hoisted from the shoe box where all the songbooks in her Sunday-school classroom were stored. I don't know if it was the thrill of her having stolen it just for me (afterall it's the thought that counts) or having risked capture and disgrace knowing I had wanted one so much (my classroom teacher was not half so trusting...), but the booklette was very precious to me. I remember taking the booklette and my song flute out only when I knew that my parents were off buying tomatoes and Rice Crispies. A short while ago Little Sister, now a junior high school librarian in her own right, while reorganizing the hallway cupboard at my mom's house, pulled the booklette out during our weekly SKYPE chit-chat. We sang all the songs, re-told stupid sunday school stories and commented on whether we should return the booklette or not. Sadly for our souls, we have it on good authority that no longer do the teachers, the sunday school nor the synagogue exist so that option got pretty much trashed. Anyways. We are always looking for appropriate children's novels with jewish content, which is nice of course no arguments there, but rarely do we suggest a bencher or songbook with perhaps a CD. Maybe a song flute to go along with it (...to drive his/her parents ever so slightly nuts). I remember that when I was a kid, "how-to" was very big. Jewish origami book? How-to Throw Your Own Jewish-theme Party book? or maybe Keeping Kosher Kamp Kookbook for your favourite GirlGuide/Boy Scout enthusiast? Happy Shavuot to one and all Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano, presª and all-round Big Kahuna Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- 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: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
