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est in a subject and period. This is
what Julius Lester has achieved for
pre-teens and younger teens in
Pharaoh's Daughter (Harcourt; $17).
Here he fictionalizes the story of
Moses, from his rescue from the Nile
River, his life growing up in Pharaoh's
palace in ancient Egypt, to his killing
of the Egyptian and subsequent flight
from Egypt.
Aside from the broad outlines, this
is not the story found in the Bible,
which tells us very little of this aspect
of Moses' life. Lester has used his
imagination to paint a picture of royal
life in ancient Egypt and to create a
biography for Moses.
Lester tells his tale mostly through
Moses' sister. Not Miriam whom we
know from the Bible, but an older sis-
ter Lester calls Almah, who also goes to
live in Pharaoh's palace. She is the vehi-
cle through which Lester writes of daily
life in ancient Egypt, for she becomes
like a daughter to Pharaoh, more so, in
fact, than his own daughter, the one
who drew Moses from the Nile.
In an author's note, Lester is clear
about what he has written. This is a
novel. As such, it is ultimately a work
of the imagination.
The figure of Moses has fascinated
Lester, and as a result, Pharaoh's
Daughter is likely to capture a teenage
imagination as well.
While we prefer to transmit Jewish
joy rather than Jewish tragedy to chil-
dren, at some point it will be appro-
priate to begin to approach the subject
of the Holocaust.
An excellent resource, for children 8
and older, is My Secret Camera
(Harcourt; $16) by Frank Dabba Smith
with photographs by Mendel Grossman,
who secretly photographed daily life in
the Lodz Ghetto over a period of four
years. Shortly before he was deported, he
packed his negatives, which numbered
some 10,000, into cans and hid them.
Although Grossman did not survive,
the negatives were recovered and sent
to a kibbutz in Israel. During the
1948 War of Independence, the kib-
butz was attacked and the negatives
were destroyed.
However, there were some prints left
behind in the ghetto and these are
today housed in Israel.
Sixteen of them have been repro-
duced here, with a text created by
Frank Dabba Smith, writing as
Grossman's voice. This beautifully , pro-
duced book conveys and illustrates
something of ghetto life, and while it
may leave children with more ques-
tions than answers, it is an excellent
introduction to a disturbing subject. Li

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