Get
Stuck On
This!

A great sticker book for
children, plus new books
for young readers.

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM
AppleTree Editor

Sticker Stories: Stories from the Bible by Stacey Lamb.
Published by Grosset Dunlap, copyright 2002. 24
pages. $4.99.
Wow — someone had a great idea! This sticker
book is fun, fun, fun. Featuring 75 reusable stick-
ers, Sticker Stories includes very brief versions of
favorite Torah stories, including Noah, King
David, Jonah and Joseph. ("Jacob had 12 sons, but
his favorite son was Joseph. When Jacob gave
Joseph a beautiful coat, his brothers were very jeal-
ous. They sold him as a slave. Years later, Joseph
became a powerful man. His brothers were poor
and had no food to eat. They came to Joseph for
help. Did Joseph turn them away? No. He forgave
his brothers, and shared his food with them.")
This sticker book clearly is geared to children
aged 3-5, but it's so good everyone in the house
will want it.

Anne Frank and Me by Cherie Bennet and mf
Gottesfeld. Published by G. 1? Putnam's Sons, copy-
right 2001. 291 pages. $18.99.
Written for readers aged 10-16, Anne Frank and
Me is the story of Nicole Burns, a 15-year-old
gentile girl who leads a normal life. She lives with
her two parents and her sister, Elizabeth. She has
a best pal, Mimi, a crush on a boy named Jack,
and a close friend, David. In school, Nicole
studies the life and work of Anne Frank. She
also listens to a guest speaker who discusses
the Nazi persecution of Jews during World
War II, and visits a museum exhibit on the
Holocaust.
It is at the museum that something aston-
ishing happens. Suddenly, Nicole hears gun-
fire. She falls to the ground. She feels her-
self spinning, spinning through time and

space. When she awakens, she finds she is Nicole
Bernhardt, a 15-year-old Jewish girl in Paris, France.
At first, Nicole suffers only minor prejudice. She is
unable to enter certain businesses, and occasionally
she hears ugly comments. But as time goes on, the
situation worsens and Nicole and her family go into
hiding. During the day, Nicole and her family are
safe. But at night, her father must go to find work so
the family will be able to live. On one of these
evenings, he is killed. Nicole and her sister are then
sent away, far from their mother. At last, the girls are
sent to Auschwitz, and along the way they meet up
with Anne Frank.
Weaving historical fact with contemporary fiction
is a tricky job; Anne Frank and Me manages it deftly.
The book offers important information about the
Holocaust, about what it means to be human, about
life. It's an exciting story that your young reader will
love.

Good Morning, Boker Toy by Michelle Shapiro
Abraham, art by Selina Alko. Published by Union of
American Hebrew Congregations Press, copyright
2001. 14 pages. $6 Also in the same series: Good
Night, Lila Toy.
Pareve is the term that describes such foods as veg-
etables and fruits that are neither milk nor meat. It
also can be used to speak to books such as this one,
which are neither good nor bad.
The text of this brief book is charming, delightful.
It is the story of a little girl who is happy with the
world and so says modeh ani (I am grateful) from the
traditional morning prayer. At the end of the book,
the author eloquently tells of her young daughter
who comes running into her bed, and they read a
book, and "I know that the day will come when my
daughter will no longer be willing to cuddle in my
arms in the early morning, taking a moment to
thank God for the wonders around her.

N\*

Boker
Toy
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Michelle Shapiro Abraham

aktstrared by Selina Alko

2/8

2002

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