[ha-Safran] Grandparent stories

Many thanks to all who shared Grandparent stories for my 4th and 5th graders. I will post a bibliography to the Bibliography Bank on the AJL website. Toby Toby Harris, Librarian Temple De Hirsch Sinai 206-693-3379 Seattle 425-559-2579 Bellevue http://lib.tdhs-nw.org

[ha-Safran] Controversies in Jewish kid-lit

Friends, I am going to do a presentation for parents and grandparents on controversies in Jewish children's books--books for primary age children mainly.   I will deal w/ topics like interfaith families (titles like: Kaddish for Grandpa in Jesus' Name Amen), Arab-Jewish Middle East issue (e.g.

[ha-Safran] Latin Grammy Winner PJ Library Children's Musician - Mister G

Mazal tov to Mr. G for winning the Latin GRAMMY tonight for Best Children's Album. PJ Library recently commissioned Mister G to write an album of Jewish-themed kids music. What resulted is The Mitzvah Bus, a collection of 14 original songs in English, Hebrew, Spanish and Yiddish. preview

Re: [ha-Safran] grandparents

Greetings, Toby, The moral story which comes to mind first, with ripples of appropriateness as Thanksgiving approaches are the many variants of The Grandfather Who Was Thrown Out of the Sukkah from Barbara Rush's *Book of Jewish Women's Tale*s. Other versions include: The Boy Who Cut an Overcoat

Re: [ha-Safran] grandparents

Phoebe Gilman's Something From Nothing has that refrain: "Grandpa can fix it!"    Andrea Rapp, Cincinnati __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL)