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Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust (Paperback)

by Eve Bunting (Author), Stephen Gammell (Illustrator)

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Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: Jewish Pubn Society; Revised edition (September 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0827605072
ISBN-13: 978-0827605077
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.3 x 0.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 91 g

Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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Church & Synagogue Libraries

"This is an excellent book for sensitizing young people of any denomination to recognize injustice."

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Little Rabbit wonders why the Terrible Things take away all the creatures with feathers. 'This is an excellent book for sensitizing young people of any denomination to recognize injustice' Church & Synagogue Libraries. It was chosen as a Book of the Year choice of the Child Study Childrens Book Committee.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Brief Reflections On Terrible Things, April 23 2004

By	James Hutchins (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Ce commentaire est de: Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust (Hardcover)

I stumbled upon this book whilst babysitting my niece and I'd like to give my thoughts on it. Many well-meaning liberal parents may buy this for their children, which I think is a mistake.

The reading level of this book is about 4-6. Children young enough to be entertained by this story should not know anything of the reality of the holocaust. Not until they are atleast 8 or 9. A child of 4 or 5 is simply too young to be forced to deal with what is, probably, the most horrendous evil of this or any century.

At first, since the subtitle reads: "an allegory of the holocaust", I was expecting something similiar to "Maus" but instead, I got something more akin to an allegorical re-telling of Martin Niemoeller's famous and oft-quoted phrase ("First they come for the communists, but I did not speak up...). First they come for the animals with tails (or something, I don't remember exactly) and then the squirrels and various other woodlawn creatures. Then the animals discuss never letting it happen again.

Now, it's a fine moral and one that needs to be learned. All I'm suggesting is that we don't let good intentions and liberal ideals push our children into the hard facts of adult existence too quickly. It's devastating enough to know that man is capable of such brutal cruelty when you're an adult.

Once you learn that there were people named Josef Mengele and Adolf Hitler, the world ceases to be the same happy place (and there's no going back... seraphim with flaming swords bar the gate to that Eden).

Let children prolong their naive ignorance of the fact that man can be a cruel and vicious animal for as long as it is socially responsible for you to do so. I suggest that this should be longer than 5-6 years.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Really Great, Feb 25 2004

By	Samuel Tauloro (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews

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Brilliant! I really recommend this book to anyone who wants to teach there kids about holocaust things.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Terrible Things, Sep 26 2003

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Terrible Things is based on the Holocaust and what happened during that time. Animals are used instead of people, and a forest instead of Europe. It talks about how terrible things came into the woods and took away animals by what they were or what they had for a tail or feathers. The animals talked to one another about their friends being taken away after it happened and not trying to prevent it from happening again. I think it teaches that there are times when you should get involved with business that doesn't include you and times when you shouldn't.
I think the age level is maybe around 7-9 years. I think the book was interesting because it teaches history and is a story at the same time.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Martin Niemoeller's lesson turned into a parable for kids
I was curious to see how Eve Bunting would turn the Holocaust into an allegory appropriate for young children, but as soon as I started reading "Terrible Things" the... Lisez davantage

Published on July 18 2003 by Lawrance M. Bernabo

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrible things
Terrible things is a very touching book. It tells the story of the Holocaust in a slightly less potent way, it tells the story with animals instead of people. Lisez davantage

Published on Oct 28 2002

2.0 out of 5 stars Discription of holocost... hollow
Eve Bunting is fabulous author and I admire her work.. but she relate's rabbits and frogs to the holocost, really, think about this for a moment, can rabbits and frogs REALLY... Lisez davantage

Published on Dec 7 1999 by P. Bonner