Oct 14, 2018
The Girl with the Red Balloon is a magical time
travel, historical fiction, kind-of-sort-of Holocaust book that won
a Sydney Taylor Honor in the Teen Readers Category for 2018. I met
the author, Katherine
Locke, at the
Association of Jewish Libraries conference in Boston, where we
snuck into a side room to talk – please excuse the faint hubbub
coming from outside. We discussed not only Katherine’s book, but
also her article on Medium.com, “Thinking
about Jewish Children’s Literature in a Time of
anti-Semitism.”