Another approach to the problem of books like "A little Piece of Ground"
might be to write to local school librarians about the book. The letter
should explain the reasons for concern about evident bias, or inaccuracy,
and document the areas of concern. It should be clear that the writer's
purpos
I. Oppenheim says that if we do anything to limit distribution of the
book will backfire. I say:
Right. We should never make any kind of waves. We should just sit back
and let Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and all the other book
review sources recommend the book and hope that it goes awa
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Hanna Geshelin wrote:
> Publishing thoughtful, objective reviews that point
> out the weaknesses is very, very different. When the
> review journals are negative, people choose to spend
> their limited book budgets in other places.
Hanna, I don't disagree with you at all.
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Beila Organic wrote:
> Another approach to the problem of books like "A little Piece of Ground"
> might be to write to local school librarians about the book. The letter
> should explain the reasons for concern about evident bias, or inaccuracy,
> and document the areas o
The suggestion to contact the ADL about this kind of offensive publication
is a good one and when the original email about this book first came across
the list I forwarded it to my contact at the Washington National office of
the ADL. He will be sure it gets to the proper department of the ADL for
Maybe it would be appropriate for someone to set up an
online petition about this book that people could
sign. I know there's at least one website that lets
people set up petitions.
Shabbat Shalom.
-Stanley Nachamie
1-212-316-0033
P.S. My computer crashed, so I may not able to respond
right awa
At the site I looked at http://www.jubileebooks.co.uk
, it says that it is note even published in the UK
yet.
The descriptive paragraph provided reads thus :
12 year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in
their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. Israeli tanks
control the city in response t
Taking action outside of our own small sphere of influence may be new
for the AJL, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
I strongly believe that simply reviewing books (and pointing out bias)
in Jewish publications is inadequate. Most librarians who purchase the
book will not be Jewish
Ellen Polk writes: If the book is as Phyllis Simon says, is there something
more we can do as
a group to get Macmillan to reconsider its release?
The book Phyllis wrote about is A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth
Laird. It is published by Macmillan-UK and may not be available in the
U.S., s
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