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The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come
Recipient of a Sydney Taylor Book Award for Younger Readers An ALA Notable Book A Bank Street...
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Recipient of a Sydney Taylor Book Award for Younger Readers
An ALA Notable Book
A Bank Street Best Book of the Year "Text and illustration meld beautifully." --The New York Times
"Stunning." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Inspired... a] journalistic, propulsive narrative." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The story comes alive through the bold acrylic and gouache art." --Booklist (starred review) From New York Times Best Illustrated Book artist Stacy Innerst and author Sue Macy comes a story of one man's heroic effort to save the world's Yiddish books in their Sydney Taylor Book Award-winning masterpiece. Over the last forty years, Aaron Lansky has jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around musty basements, and crawled through cramped attics. He did all of this in pursuit of a particular kind of treasure, and he's found plenty. Lansky's treasure was any book written Yiddish, the language of generations of European Jews. When he started looking for Yiddish books, experts estimated there might be about 70,000 still in existence. Since then, the MacArthur Genius Grant recipient has collected close to 1.5 million books, and he's finding more every day. Told in a folkloric voice reminiscent of Patricia Polacco, this story celebrates the power of an individual to preserve history and culture, while exploring timely themes of identity and immigration.
Author: Sue Macy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 11.50h x 8.80w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781481472203
Audience: Ages 4-8
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 505090 / Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come
Award: Sydney Taylor Book Award - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2019 pg. 121
Publishers Weekly 08/05/2019
School Library Journal 09/01/2019 pg. 138
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2019 pg. 116
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 51
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average
About the Author
Sue Macy is the acclaimed author of many books for young readers, including Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber, which was on the Amelia Bloomer List and named a CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book, among many other accolades. Sue is also the author of Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom and Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map. A former editor at Scholastic, she lives in Englewood, New Jersey. Learn more at SueMacy.com. Stacy Innerst is the illustrator of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of RBG vs. Inequality, which earned the prestigious designation of New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book. He also illustrated the award-winning The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue, which received four starred reviews; Thomas Jefferson Grows a Nation; and Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Ideas, among others. He studied art and history at the University of New Mexico and resides in Pittsburgh. Learn more at StacyInnerst.com.
An ALA Notable Book
A Bank Street Best Book of the Year "Text and illustration meld beautifully." --The New York Times
"Stunning." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Inspired... a] journalistic, propulsive narrative." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The story comes alive through the bold acrylic and gouache art." --Booklist (starred review) From New York Times Best Illustrated Book artist Stacy Innerst and author Sue Macy comes a story of one man's heroic effort to save the world's Yiddish books in their Sydney Taylor Book Award-winning masterpiece. Over the last forty years, Aaron Lansky has jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around musty basements, and crawled through cramped attics. He did all of this in pursuit of a particular kind of treasure, and he's found plenty. Lansky's treasure was any book written Yiddish, the language of generations of European Jews. When he started looking for Yiddish books, experts estimated there might be about 70,000 still in existence. Since then, the MacArthur Genius Grant recipient has collected close to 1.5 million books, and he's finding more every day. Told in a folkloric voice reminiscent of Patricia Polacco, this story celebrates the power of an individual to preserve history and culture, while exploring timely themes of identity and immigration.
Author: Sue Macy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 11.50h x 8.80w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781481472203
Audience: Ages 4-8
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 505090 / Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come
Award: Sydney Taylor Book Award - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2019 pg. 121
Publishers Weekly 08/05/2019
School Library Journal 09/01/2019 pg. 138
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2019 pg. 116
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 51
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average
About the Author
Sue Macy is the acclaimed author of many books for young readers, including Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber, which was on the Amelia Bloomer List and named a CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book, among many other accolades. Sue is also the author of Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom and Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map. A former editor at Scholastic, she lives in Englewood, New Jersey. Learn more at SueMacy.com. Stacy Innerst is the illustrator of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of RBG vs. Inequality, which earned the prestigious designation of New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book. He also illustrated the award-winning The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue, which received four starred reviews; Thomas Jefferson Grows a Nation; and Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Ideas, among others. He studied art and history at the University of New Mexico and resides in Pittsburgh. Learn more at StacyInnerst.com.
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