Grandpa's Third Drawer: Unlocking Holocaust Memories
Judy Tal Kopelman
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Of all the places in the world, Uri really loves to be at his grandparents’ house. There he can stay up way past his bedtime and eat as many sweets from the chocolate box as he likes. There’s only one forbidden place in that house: the third drawer in Grandpa’s desk. This drawer is locked. No one ever opens it until one day when Uri finds the key to the third drawer. From that moment, nothing is ever the same.
Grandpa’s Third Drawer takes up the difficult challenge of discussing the Holocaust with young children, of teaching its heritage and memory, all ... Read more
The original Hebrew edition won the Israeli Ze’ev Prize for Children’s Literature in 2003 and won the first prize in Mits’ad Hasfarim (a nationwide survey of all schoolchildren in Israel for first to third grades) in 2003 and 2012. Grandpa’s Third Drawer is now included in Israel’s “Paths of Memory” nationwide Holocaust learning program in all schools.Show Less
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The Jewish Publication Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
40
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, United States
ISBN
9780827612211
SKU
V9780827612211
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About Judy Tal Kopelman
Judy Tal Kopelman, author and illustrator, is a lecturer in creative writing and literature at Kinneret College, Sea of Galilee, and designer of Israel’s national bible reading venture, “929 - Bible On Walls.”
Reviews for Grandpa's Third Drawer: Unlocking Holocaust Memories
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20140303/61260-in-the-big-tent-jesus-ducks-atheists.html “It was with great eagerness that I read this beautiful book. Its warmth will move many students and readers.”—Eli Wiesel “Grandpa’s Third Drawer is an organized and clear story that enables young readers to confront the hardest of stories to tell.”—Yael Dar, Ha’aretz, Israel’s oldest newspaper "First published in Israel, this poignant book introduces the Holocaust with candor and ... Read more