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Amarante
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Tue, Feb 21 2017, 8:18 am
I hadn't thought of these stories for years and then came across a passing reference to the books as well as the All Of A Kind Family - another series of books I loved as a child.
All of A Kind Family was a Jewish family on the Lower East Side at turn of the twentieth century.
K’tonton was the Jewish Tom Thumb who takes a ride on a chopping knife and wishes he hadn’t, who goes to synagogue and swings on a lulav, who takes a ride on a runaway dried.
From a review:
K’tonton has just the right amount of scary. Our hero decides to ride the knife like a bucking bronco while his mother is chopping fish for Shabbat, then winds up falling off and having to dodge the flashing silver knife while throwing himself desperately around the bowl of raw fish bits. (Of course, his mother finally sees him, picks him up with two fingers and rinses him under the kitchen faucet. She doesn’t even get mad!) He gets accidentally folded inside a hamantashen, but he winds up cheering up a sad little boy on Purim. On Rosh Hashanah, he knocks over a cup of honey and lets a stray kitten take the blame, then he tells the truth on Yom Kippur. (The kitten forgives him.) He gets shipwrecked on a deserted island, but he befriends all the animals and eventually returns to civilization on a seaweed raft.
Do kids still read them?
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewis.....-time
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etky
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Tue, Feb 21 2017, 8:24 am
I still have a K'tonton book from my childhood and I read it to my kids when they were little.
Be"h I hope they will read the stories to their own children when the time comes.
I loved those stories - and the illustrations - when I was little.
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Yellow
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Tue, Feb 21 2017, 8:31 am
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grace413
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Tue, Feb 21 2017, 9:23 am
I have fond memories of Ktonton.
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champion
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Tue, Feb 21 2017, 9:25 am
Yup! grew up with those stories
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cm
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Tue, Feb 21 2017, 9:30 am
Yes! Both K'tonton and All of a Kind Family.
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DallasIma
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Tue, Feb 21 2017, 9:45 am
My kids had all of those books and I remember reading K'tonton to them when they were little. Nice memories!
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miriamg
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Tue, Feb 21 2017, 10:18 am
I found a few ktonton books in my local library recently and read them to my 2nd grader. He loved them! Nothing like the good wholesome books! All of a kind family is also great. I also recently read my kids 'Best of Olomeinu' books. They were so wonderful, so full of content!
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