Because I work as a librarian at a Jewish Day School, the students I encounter are well aware of the Holocaust by the time they reach 4th and 5th grades.  Benno and the Night of the Broken Glass by Meg Wiviott will make an excellent addition to our collection on the topic.

Wiviott successfully captures the interest of children in this age group by using Benno the cat as the central...

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Uri Shulevitz's recent picture book, "How I Learned Geography," is a complex book.  Shulevitz tells, in picture book form, about his own life story.  In the actual book, he keeps the narrative on a level that even the youngest readers or listeners could understand.  His illustrations of his family leaving their war-torn home, arriving in a dusty new village, and living in relative poverty clearly show how large a disruption this move has been for young Uri.  Wonderful too are the images of Ur...
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