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by Naomi Danis
Grown-Ups Analyze Kid’s Books
Why does Frances, the female badger whose bedtime has come and gone (Russell Hoban’s Bedtime for Frances), keep trying to get her parents’ attention, while the male hero of Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen embarks on a fantasy escape when he is banished to bed? These and other questions are explored in the endearing Inside Picture Books, by Ellen Handler Spitz (Yale University Press, $25). Spitz, a psychoanalyst—who incidentally writes with a Jewish sensibility—interprets the art, the words and the meanings of the culture adults transmit to children in the act of reading them picture books.
A Whole New World for Girls
The articles in this special section:Clueless?
by Susan Weidman Schneider
What the Jewish community often is when it comes to teenage girls
Breasts – Check Them Out
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Spirituality for Girls
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No More GYN Dread!
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BBG! Mind! Body! Attitude!
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Violence in Teen Relationships
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Living Full Jewish Lives in a Barbie Doll World
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A psychotherapist offers a fascinating new take on the challenges to Jewish girls' bodies.
Girls and Food
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Dolls to Live By
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Lilith college interns Naomi Goodman and Susannah Jaffe confess to continuing their relationships with their dark-haired American Girl dolls, and tell why it was hard to love them unconditionally.
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Judy Blume and the Embarrassment Factor
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Carol Matas on the Fear Factor
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Miriam; The Deeper Song
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If You Could Be My Friend
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Speed of Light
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Star of Luis
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Grown-Ups Analyze Kid’s Books
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Strong Female Characters, One of Them a Lamb
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