Junkyard wonders by Patricia polacco Deals with death and mental disabilities Beth braunstein
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 9, 2019, at 4:12 PM, Heidi Rabinowitz via Hasafran > <hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > > About a week ago, there was a post on Hasafran asking for Jewish children's > titles on the topics below. I posted that question in the Jewish Kidlit > Mavens group on Facebook and got a lot of responses, which I am sharing with > you now. > > What are 2 good Jewish Children’s books on each topic. > 1. Gender identity > 2. LGBTQ > 3. Death > 4. Mental Illness > 5. History of Zionism. > > 4. Dancing in the Rain by Shoshana Mael - YA > > 4. Your Voice is All I Hear - YA > > Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart, covers both LGBTQ and mental health issues > and is very tangentially Jewish. Same with her book, In Your Shoes, that > deals with death/processing grief. Both are MG. > > Suggesting Erica Perl's All Three Stooges for death and mental health (with a > little LGBTQ in the form of Noah's two moms, though there are not any LGBTQ > "issues" in the book - just LGBTQ characters). > > https://www.amazon.com/GG-Mamela-Belinda-Brock/dp/0989930904 > GG AND MAMELA was the first picture book to address family illness and > hospice care. It features a Jewish family. There is an afterword by a child > psychologist. > > French Toast Sundays, a gentle look at death of a grandparent, and the ritual > of shiva https://www.amazon.com/French-Toast-Sundays.../dp/168115529X > > Mrs. Katz and Tush deals with death and mourning; Purim Superhero I think is > a great LGBTQ book because the parents are gay just like that, not as the > message. > > For LGBTQ - picture book The Flower Girl Wore Celery by Meryl Gordon - Jewish > wedding with two brides > > NEST by Esther Ehrlich also touches on mental illness and death (mother is > struggling with depression, also dies by suicide). It's older middle-grade, > younger YA. Beautifully written and heart-wrenching. > > For Zionism: golda takes a stand by Barbara Krasner > > New picture book, While Grandpa Naps by Naomi Danis illustrated by Junghwa > Park, while not explicitly Jewish, and not primarily about death and > mourning, has a family in which a grandmother had died and an expected baby, > if she is a girl, will be named after the grandmother to help the family > remember her. > > Also, this long bibliography of diverse Jewish kidlit includes LGBTQ among > other forms of diversity; > https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2017/06/bibliography-diverse-jewish-kidlit.html > > Hope this helps. If you are a Jewish kidlit person and want to joing the > Jewish Kidlit Mavens, please go to > https://www.facebook.com/groups/JewishKidlitMavens/. > > Heidi Rabinowitz > bookoflifepodc...@gmail.com > __ > 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...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu > 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: galro...@osu.edu > 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 > Hasafran@lists.osu.edu > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
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