This Caldecott Honor book draws upon Jewish mythology to tell to the story of the persecution of the Jews in Prague in 1580. Hopefully I can read to the nephew for at least another year. I’ve had fun, so it will just be what I think. He is into the issues of comics like Ducktails and Mario bros.ĭon’t think I’ll stop reading these books. It won’t be long before he follows his sisters example. So, if I can keep them rolling, I have her ear for about 100 more days of books or so before she grows up a bit. We are getting close to finishing them all.
I convinced her to hang in there with me until we finish up all the Caldecott Books. She is about ready to stop reading picture book stories. She has been reading graphic novels lately like ‘Smile’, and ‘Roller Girl’ and loving them. My niece said she is ready to read the middle grade books. I told him that no one here knows the Cabala, so we couldn’t make it work. He wanted to form a robot in clay to bring alive. The nephew thought this was an awesome story of magic. She loved the artwork and thought the word used on the golem’s forehead was very clever. The jews are promised safety.īoth kids enjoyed the story. The story is very clever and it is a great legend. It loves all the beauty in the world and it does not want to be destroyed. To protect his people, he needs to build a Golem. False lies are being spread against them and they fear for their lives. The story is set in the 1500s in Prague where the jews are being persecuted. The story is said to be a possibility for the idea of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’. Some of the spreads are incredible and his cuts are so fine and detailed with all kinds of little pieces of grass and people all over the place or little nicks in the paper just right.
The artwork is detailed paper cut-outs that are layered and have a 3D look to them. The historical note on the last page offers a broader context for the legend, ultimately comparing the creation of Golem to the emergence of Israel.Wow! The artwork is amazing in this book! It is a great story as well. Echoing the tension and mood of Frankenstein, Wisniewski sends the tragic giant back to the blood red earth that birthed him. (This was the time of the Blood Lie, when hostile gentiles claimed that Jews were mixing the blood of Christian children with the flour and water of matzo.) David Wisniewski's cut-paper collage illustrations-which earned him the Caldecott Medal in 1997-are the ideal medium for portraying the stark black-and-white forces of good and evil, pride and prejudice, as well as the gray area that emerges when the tormented clay giant loses control of his anger. According to Jewish legend, the renowned scholar and teacher Rabbi Loew used his powers to create a Golem from clay in order to protect his people from persecution in the ghettos of 16th-century Prague. Golem is the Hebrew word for shapeless man.
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