![]() ![]() Fleischman for having the backbone to write this and intend to recommend it to everyone I know - kid or adult. Taught in conjuction with other Holocaust books, would help children feel the power they can have - even in the face of evil - even in the face of death. A Jewish thing, too - quips the Dybbuk - I threw him both ends. He throws a drowning Nazi a rope - a Christian thing to do, The Great Freddie says. Owing to the uneasy way the two genres relate, I felt a disconnect as author Fleischman tried to unify what was - I fear - non unifiable. It's easy to separate the true from the adventurous fiction - and is sprinkled with humor from a "dummy" with a knife like an "icepick". On top of this deep tradition of sadness and loss that is the story of the Dybbuk, children's author Sid Fleischman had decided to posit a children's story. ![]() This book is satisfying for adults and children alike. ![]() It does include the "possession" of a 3rd-rate ventriquilist, but at no time do you feel an "evil" anywhere in the book except in the actions and plans of the Nazis. But this book is an amazing mix of the horror of the Holocaust with a 12-year-old victim who becomes the hero. Over the decades I've read Night, The Hiding Place, and seen a variety of museums, movies, and newsreels on the Holocaust. I read this book for a Master's class on Multi-Cultural Children's Lit. ![]()
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