{"id":11460,"date":"2010-10-13T09:13:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2010-10-13T09:13:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T16:13:12","slug":"%e2%80%9chereville-is-the-culmination-of-several-positive-kidlit-trends%e2%80%a6-%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11460","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHereville is the culmination of several positive kidlit trends\u2026.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laurel at From The Mixed Up Files<\/a>, a blog about books for middle schoolers, interviews Heidi Estrin, the Vice-President of the Association of Jewish Libraries, about Jewish books for kids.<\/p>\n

Laurel is a Hereville <\/em>fan and gets a bit silly. :-D<\/p>\n

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QUESTION: what trends do you see currently? Any good new books we should be watching for?<\/p>\n

ANSWER: Watch for Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword<\/em> by Barry Deutsch, a graphic novel whose tagline is \u201cYet another troll-fighting 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl.\u201d (at this point, the interviewer squeals because she\u2019s so in love with this book!)<\/strong> This book succeeds on so many levels! It\u2019s got drama, Jewish customs, humor, Jewish ways of thinking, magic, and super-expressive art! (interviewer nods insanely)<\/strong> It effortlessly draws any reader into the Orthodox setting without feeling educational or preachy. It creates its own rich Jewish world with no need for victimhood as a source of identity or as a dramatic device. In a way, this book is the culmination of several positive kidlit (and Jewishlit) trends: multiculturalism and normalizing of ethnic characters, respecting children\u2019s intelligence, experimental formats, and strong female leads.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thanks so much, Heidi and Laurel!<\/p>\n

I really loved that Heidi said Hereville “creates its own rich Jewish world with no need for victimhood as a source of identity or as a dramatic device.” That was definitely one of my goals for the book.<\/p>\n

(If you’d like a copy of Hereville<\/em>, you can find information here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laurel at From The Mixed Up Files, a blog about books for middle schoolers, interviews Heidi Estrin, the Vice-President of the Association of Jewish Libraries, about Jewish books for kids. Laurel is a Hereville fan and gets a bit silly. :-D QUESTION: what trends do you see currently? Any good new books we should be […] Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hereville","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}