I write stuff for adults and children.
My latest book is What Rosa Brought. It’s received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist.
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What Rosa Brought is out in the world!
My new picture book What Rosa Brought is now out in the world. I’m prouder of this book than any other one I’ve written.
Some years ago, there came a time when I felt my kids were ready to begin learning about the Holocaust, but not ready to face the full horror of it. As it happened, we had the perfect story in the family. My mom was a little girl in Vienna when the Nazis marched in. She was present for the first steps the they took against the Austrian Jews. But miraculously, she and her parents escaped in 1939. One of her most vivid memories of that time is from the day she left Vienna, when she discovered that her beloved grandmother had to stay behind. So it’s certainly not a happy story. But it is, at least, a story whose sadness a child can wrap their head around, as a very first step towards a painful but necessary understanding of the kind of horrors we must always be on guard against.
