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Yolen's Briar Rose: Review - Essays Online

Yolen's Briar Rose: Review

The name of the book I read is, Briar Rose by Jane Yolen. The Tom Doherty Associates Book publishing company published the book in 1992. It has 200 pages, and it is a fictional story. Jane Yolen is the award-winning author of more than 150 books for children. Among her many books is another Holocaust story, The Devil's Arithmetic that won the Jewish Book Award. Born and raised in New York City, Jane Yolen now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. When she is not writing, Yolen composes songs, is a professional storyteller on the stage, and is the busy wife of a university ...

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child of two writers, is a gifted and natural storyteller. Perhaps the best explanation for her outstanding accomplishments comes from Jane Yolen herself: "I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told." When asked if she had any relatives who were in concentration camps during WWII and how she became interested in the holocaust, she replied, “My family--both sides--came over at the beginning of this century and we had no family left in either the Ukraine or Latvia during World War II. I am interested in the Holocaust as a Jew and as a citizen of the world.”
Briar Rose is the story in which a woman tries to find out the secret of her grandmother's past, and why her grandmother was so obsessed with the fairy tale Briar Rose or as we know it, Sleeping Beauty. For as long as Rebecca can remember, her grandmother,Gemma, has told Rebecca and her sisters the tale of Briar Rose. Still, more than that, she has told them that she is Briar ...

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Added: 11/17/2007 07:55:51 AM
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