Lilith Feature

How Books Tell the World’s Bad News to Children

One year after the 9/11 terror attacks in the U.S. and two years into the Intifada, Naomi Danis asked some Jewish authors and editors to reflect on children’s books and politics.

In This Feature

by Jane Yolen
Beware Sentimental Tripe

by Susan Rich
Truth Soothes

by Gail Carson Levine
Heroines Overcome their Demons

by Shira Geffen
Children: Stronger Than We Think

by Ellen Handler Spitz
Bad News from the Start

by Gail Hareven
Every Child Imagines Orphanhood

by Susie Morgenstern
Kaddish as Magical Incantation

by Esther Rudomin Hautzig
Cry for Someone Else

by Karen B.Winnick
History Helps

by Sonya Sones
Struggles of Underdogs

by Dorit Orgad
Transmitting Determination

by Yehudit Kafri
No Brainwashing

by Ruth Minsky Sender
Hope After the Holocaust

by Julius Lester
Pain Is a Teacher

by Johanna Hurwitz
Forget Bibliotherapy

by Fran Manushkin
War in a Picture Book?

by Leslea Newman
Discovering Hatred

by Sami Michael
Don’t Plant Seeds of Despair

by Etgar Keret
Between Hopes and Reality

by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
The Power of Anger

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