My Mother's Voice: Children, Literature and the Holocaust

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 respec…