Left: Sam and Lisa Tencer
concentrate on their art project.

Below: Robert Axelrod is pleased
with his bookmark.

JULIE EDGAR News Editor

JOSHUA KRISTAL Photographer

r

or the next six weeks, par-
ents and children will enter
new worlds together.

On Sunday, Jewish Experience for
Families kicked off its Sefer Safari
Reading Program with an afternoon of
puppeteering and craftsmaking. The
program is meant to encourage read-
ing as a bedtime ritual, and to that
end, children between 3 and 8 deco-
rated bookmarks, book covers and pil-
low cases.
The PuppetArt Company, led by
Igor Gozman, entertained families
with a rendition of an Isaac Bashevis
Singer story that it called "Close the
Window."
Over the next month and a half,
families are asked to complete 10
books, which are available for borrow-
ing from the Jimmy Prentis Morris
Jewish Community Center in Oak
Park on Wednesdays and Sundays. A
prize awaits when the last book is
closed. 0

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