Mom-Steph Book Group

Yesterday at our mother-daughter Jewish book group, we officially scraped the bottom of the Jewish-themed-(but-non-Holocaust)-books-appropriate-
for-third-graders barrel, with The Very Best Hanukkah Gift by Joanne Rocklin. It was a quick, light read with pretty much no lasting message. Nothing bad, just nothing great. So, having read pretty much every decent book in the above-described category (yes, there are plenty more Lower-East-Side-immigrant stories, but enough already!), we've decided to go secular, at least for the time being. So next up is Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards, which I am looking forward to reading because I somehow missed it when I was growing up.

Comments

[Lisa]

Deb and I loved Mandy but it's a fairly recent book---1989 according to Amazon. Too bad you couldn't find other appropriate Jewish titles but at least you're reading!

[dana]

i loved Mandy as a kid. my girls have also loved it.

[Charlotte]

Beatrice LOVES Mandy, and The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles, too.

[Karen]

Mandy was first published in 1971.

[scott]

Has anyone read Despereaux? It might skew a bit older than Julie, but my kids are too old for it, I think. I want someone with younger kids to tell me how good it is!

[Karen]

Someone gave Despereaux to Steph as a gift, but she's not interested in it yet.

[Nancy]

I just read your comments and I was going to hazard a guess that it was published in the early seventies...I loved it.

[Charlotte]

Karen, I just found this e-zine on another board:
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring96/mendt.html

I haven't taken a very good look, but just the idea is promising!