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by Naomi Danis
Male Role Models
Two engaging books of fiction portray nurturing grandfathers helping their grandsons come to terms with losses. In Paula Fox’s Radiance Descending (DK Ink), a boy has to unlearn his practice of ignoring his younger brother with Down’s Syndrome, a brother whose arrival turned the family’s life upside down. In Sun & Spoon (Greenwillow) by Kevin Menkes (famed for Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse), the narrating boy longs for a souvenir of his grandma who recently died. And, finally, one question it is hard not to ask: in 1998 when an ancient Jewish legend is retold—as in the picture book You Never Know: A Legend of the Lamed Vavniks by Francine Prose, illustrated by Mark Powdal—where are the females among the 36 righteous of the world?
Girls
The articles in this special section:Greater than Angels
by Rachel T. Harris
Katarina
by Rachel T. Harris
Snowdrops for Cousin Ruth
by Rachel T. Harris
Sacred Fires: Berurya A Daughter, A Wife, But First a Woman
by Naomi Danis
Male Role Models
by Naomi Danis
Think Twice about Roald Dahl
by Michele Landsberg
Rereading the classic author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory through a Jewish feminist lens, Landsberg marshalls convincing evidence of misogyny and anti-Semitism.
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
by Naomi Danis
The Primrose Path
by Robyn Schmones