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manuscript, Mrs. Rothstein
insisted there be three il-
lustrations for each se-
quence to set the right mood.
But Mrs. Perlstein felt the
first and third drawings
would be too similar to be
effective. Then she
discovered a solution which
satisfied them both.
"I didn't look at how it
would look; I looked at how
it would read," said Mrs.
Rothstein, adding Mrs.
Perlstein is more in tune
with a book's form.
"That combination is our
strength," Mrs. Rothstein
said.
But if they need an au-
dience to critique their latest
book, they simply ask their
children — all 13 of them.
Mrs. Perlstein's seven
children, Binyomin, 14,
Malka, 12, Avrohom, 10,
Chani, 8, Devora, 6, Yaakov,
4, and Chava Gittel, 15 mon-
ths, are no strangers to their
mother's work. Sometimes if
she can't get a drawing quite
right, she'll ask one of her
children to pose.
"My mother says she can
see their faces in my draw-
ings," said Mrs. Perlstein,
who doesn't think the il-
lustrations in But Then I
Remembered look anything
like her children.
Mrs. Rothstein's children,
Mordechai, 10, Channa Git-
tel, 8 1/2, Tova Tzipporah, 7,
Yerucham, 41/2, Eliyahu, 2 1/2,
and Chava Rivka, 1, have
grown up with their
mother's stories.
While her first grade
students get a kick out of
reading their teacher's
stories, her own children
certainly aren't impressed,
Mrs. Rothstein said. "They
aren't affected by it at all,"
she said.
However, Mrs. Rothstein
and Mrs. Perlstein still get a
kick out of their success.
Although sales figures
aren't in for But Then I Re-
membered, The Menchkins
Make Friends sold more
than 3,500 copies throughout
the United States, Israel,
Europe and South Africa, she
said.
"We were told anything
over 2,500 is good and 3,000
is great," Mrs. Rothstein
said. "We were thrilled."
"Among our children's
books, it is a top seller," said
Avrom Borenstein of
Borenstein's Book and
Music Store.
"They are good books and
a lot of people know these
girls," said Mr Borenstein.
"But it sells well even
among those people who
have never heard of them."
Someone asked her at a re-
cent teacher's conference in
Cincinnati if she ever gets
tired of the recognition for
her work, Mrs. Rothstein
said. "It doesn't matter how
many times we hear it. It
always feels like it is the
first time. It's a wonderful
feeling."
The pair attribute much of
their success to their deter-
mination. "I know of people
who have manuscripts sit-
ting in a drawer or have the
mechanics of a story worked
out in their minds," Mrs.
Rothstein said. "But they
just don't go ahead and do it.
Sometimes I think that is
the only thing that separates
us. We went for it." ❑
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