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Title: Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting, Stephen Gammell ISBN: 0-8276-0325-8 Publisher: Jewish Publication Society Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Brief Reflections On Terrible Things
Comment: I stumbled upon this book whilst babysitting my niece and I'd like to give my thoughts on it. Many well-meaning liberal parents may buy this for their children, which I think is a mistake.
The reading level of this book is about 4-6. Children young enough to be entertained by this story should not know anything of the reality of the holocaust. Not until they are atleast 8 or 9. A child of 4 or 5 is simply too young to be forced to deal with what is, probably, the most horrendous evil of this or any century.
At first, since the subtitle reads: "an allegory of the holocaust", I was expecting something similiar to "Maus" but instead, I got something more akin to an allegorical re-telling of Martin Niemoeller's famous and oft-quoted phrase ("First they come for the communists, but I did not speak up...). First they come for the animals with tails (or something, I don't remember exactly) and then the squirrels and various other woodlawn creatures. Then the animals discuss never letting it happen again.
Now, it's a fine moral and one that needs to be learned. All I'm suggesting is that we don't let good intentions and liberal ideals push our children into the hard facts of adult existence too quickly. It's devastating enough to know that man is capable of such brutal cruelty when you're an adult.
Once you learn that there were people named Josef Mengele and Adolf Hitler, the world ceases to be the same happy place (and there's no going back... seraphim with flaming swords bar the gate to that Eden).
Let children prolong their naive ignorance of the fact that man can be a cruel and vicious animal for as long as it is socially responsible for you to do so. I suggest that this should be longer than 5-6 years.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Really Great
Comment: Brilliant! I really recommend this book to anyone who wants to teach there kids about holocaust things.
Rating: 4
Summary: Terrible Things
Comment: Terrible Things is based on the Holocaust and what happened during that time. Animals are used instead of people, and a forest instead of Europe. It talks about how terrible things came into the woods and took away animals by what they were or what they had for a tail or feathers. The animals talked to one another about their friends being taken away after it happened and not trying to prevent it from happening again. I think it teaches that there are times when you should get involved with business that doesn't include you and times when you shouldn't.
I think the age level is maybe around 7-9 years. I think the book was interesting because it teaches history and is a story at the same time.
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Title: I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova ISBN: 0805210156 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: The Number on My Grandfather's Arm by David A. Adler, Rose Eichenbaum ISBN: 0807403288 Publisher: Union of American Hebrew Congregations Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Faithful Elephants : A True Story of Animals, People, and War by Yukio Tsuchiya, Ted Lewin ISBN: 0395861373 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 30 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Children We Remember by Chana Byers Abells ISBN: 0688063713 Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 18 August, 1986 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti ISBN: 1568461895 Publisher: Creative Editions Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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