The only thing that kept me quiet during Passover seders when I was a kid was an old Children’s Haggadah with interactive pictures. Pull a tab and Moses would float through the bulrushes in his wicker basket. Thumb a circular disk and the twelve plagues would cycle through an open window cut into the page. Slide your finger from one side to the other and the towering walls of the divided Red Sea would close over Pharaoh’s army. Under my direction, Pharaoh’s army got drownded over and over.
That was only one of the many picture books I treasured (I wish I still had my copy). So it was fun to find this 15-foot-long scroll to the editor — yes, scroll — in the NYT today. Turns out the kids of Birch Lane Elementary School in Davis, CA, took issue with an article criticizing picture books, and brilliantly cracked the code of getting a ‘letter to the editor’ published.
Go kids!
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