Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Miss America sees Jewish symbols in the world

Adorned with her patriotic cape, Sonia helped me read Caldecott-winning book A Tree is Nice.  This book is just a pleasure to explore and Sonia was a great guide to the illustrations.

On this page, she said the children were climbing an apple tree.  Then she corrected herself, saying the fruit had crowns.  She further explained that they must therefore be pomegranates.  I wondered, is it only in a Jewish school, so focused on the beauty of Israel's natural resources, that children see a ubiquitous fruit and imagine it to be a pomegranate?

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