From: Michele Missner <missnerm>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 21:44:15 -0600 (CST)

Funny, I read _No pretty pictures_ as well and liked it very much. However, I certainly did not take away the same thing that this reader did. Although Lobel was with her nurse for several formative years, it seemed to me that she was raised by her parents until they were forced to try to find ways to survive--her father in Russia and her mother, with falsified papers, tried to disappear into society at large. The nanny, although she truly seemed to love these children, also found them a great burden. She, by no means tried to make them into Christians, but for them to remain safe with her, they had to take on her religious practices. Her brother was dressed as a girl to hide the fact that he was circumcised, but these children always knew that they were Jews. The nurse tried to disguise Lobel's Jewish looks with a scarf over one of her eyes. I will have to reread the book, but I never saw her as associating herself with Christianity, even though she felt removed from Judaism after so many years running from the Nazis and then being shifted around until her family reuited. What amazed me was the fact, that everyone in her immediate family survived the war. Also, that she felt so removed from her parents when the family reunited. Michele


On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Vanston wrote:




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