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My Mother's Voice: Children, Pb
Adrienne Kertzer
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Description for My Mother's Voice: Children, Pb
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSYC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 220 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Named Honor Book of the Year by the Children’s Literature Association
Winner: 2003 Canadian Jewish Book Award for scholarship on a Jewish subject
Finalist: 2003 Alberta Book Awards Scholarly Book of the Year
How do children’s books represent the Holocaust? How do such books negotiate the tension between the desire to protect children, and the commitment to tell children the truth about the world? If Holocaust representations in children’s books respect the narrative conventions of hope and happy endings, how do they differ, if at all, from popular representations intended for adult audiences? And where does innocence lie, if the children’s ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Peterborough, Canada
ISBN
9781551113401
SKU
V9781551113401
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Ref
99-3
About Adrienne Kertzer
Adrienne Kertzer is Professor and former Chair of the Department of English at The University of Calgary.
Reviews for My Mother's Voice: Children, Pb
“Adrienne Kertzer’s My Mother’s Voice is, as its title suggests, a book inspired and informed by personal experience, but the questions it raises have never been more vital for all of us: how do we represent to children an evil that defies our powers of imagination, let alone our comprehension? How do we convey, in addition to historical facts, the ... Read more