Dear Mili: An Old Tale
by Wilhelm Grimm
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Author: Wilhelm GrimmIllustrator: Maurice Sendak
Translator: Ralph Manheim
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-10
ISBN: 0374317623
Number of pages: 40
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (J)
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Book Review: A Grimm Shoah
Summary: 5 Stars
Dear Mili was a surprise in many ways. While Maurice Sendak has never failed to amaze, this tender rendering a newly discovered fairy tale set as a metaphor of children hidden in the holocaust is one of the most beautiful experiences a reader can have. This is my favorite children's book of all time: the artwork is I believe the peak of Sendak's career. A small girl living alone with her mother is sent for safety in the forest when a terrible foreboding threatens. In the forest she meets St. Joseph, and another small one, who keep her safe. Returning after a pleasant journey, she finds her mother aged and alone.Their is joy and reunion: this is a poignant story on many levels. Looking deeply at the artwork one will see shoah themes:
Sendak in premiere Jewish sensitivity has done a remarkable thing: taken ancient Grimm Catholic legend and woven it into a metaphor for all of us, for all time. If this book does not tender the heart of the older who read to the younger, they have no heart. Absolutely 5-stars: Should be a classic and not out of print.
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