Abstract
What a year 1990 was for Jewish content in children's books in America! Eric Kim mel's Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, a tale of things that go bump in the night, wonderfully illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, was named a Caldecott Honor Book. And Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry, received the Newbery Award [as well as the AJL Sydney Taylor Award-see Judaica Librarianship vol. 6, pp. 111–112—Ed.]. Of course, there were those who complained that Hershel is not really a Jewish book because goblins and ghosties are not suitable Jewish themes. Tell that to I. B. Singer! And Lowry's book, an excel lent work of great appeal, does return us to an earlier convention in children's books about the Holocaust, that of helpless Jews rescued by the courage of others. Still, what a year for Jewish content! Who could complain?
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