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REVIEW: The Daughter of Auschwitz: The Girl Who Lived to Tell Her Tale, by Tova Friedman

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Tova Friedman here recounts her own story as one of the youngest children to survive Auschwitz’s during the Holocaust, framed as a retelling to a friend she has met and trusts in New York, after World War II. The book is an ostensibly middle reader version of Friedman’s adult book of the same, told from […]

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THE CARROT SEED by Ruth Krauss, illustrated by Crockett Johnson

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FOR SALE: A first edition of a real children’s classic: the 1966  Scholastic paperback, The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss and illustrated by Crockett Johnson (Harold and the Purple Crayon). This is in remarkable condition with no tears or soiling at all. There is some sun damage from shelving on the thin spine and back […]

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Another Beautifully Illustrated Book to Tempt You…

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ETA: SOLD !! ================= I just got in a beautifully illustrated edition of the Arabian Nights: Grosset & Dunlap Illustrated Junior Library, 1946. Illustrations by Earle Goodenow. Above are some samples of what this looks like. I adore this volume! As well as the color interior illustrations, there are b&w illustrations scattered throughout, right in the […]

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