Alte Zachen: Old Things
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Winner of the V&A Illustration for Children Award 2024
Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2023
Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2023
A beautifully illustrated and presented intergenerational graphic novel that follows 11-year-old Benji and his elderly grandmother, Bubbe Rosa, as they traverse Brooklyn and Manhattan, gathering the ingredients for a Friday night dinner.
Bubbe's relationship with the city is complex & nothing is quite as she remembered it and she feels alienated and angry at the world around her. Benji, on the other hand, looks at the world, and his grandmother, with clear-eyed acceptance. As they wander the city, we catch glimpses of Bubbe's childhood in Germany, her young adulthood in 1950s Brooklyn, and her relationships; first with a baker called Gershon, and later with successful Joe, Benji's grandfather. Gradually we piece together snippets of Bubbe's life, gaining an insight to some of the things that have formed her cantankerous personality. The journey culminates on the Lower East Side in a moving reunion between Rosa and Gershon, her first love. As the sun sets, Benji and his Bubbe walk home over the Williamsburg Bridge to make dinner.
This is a powerful, affecting and deceptively simple story of Jewish identity, of generational divides, of the surmountability of difference and of a restless city and its inhabitants.
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Eine grumpy Oma und ihr Enkel
Die jüdische Bubbe (Oma) möchte einkaufen gehen, doch all ihre Läden scheinen verschwunden zu sein. Ich verstehe, was das Buch damit aussagen will, warum Bubbe so griesgrämig ist, frauenfeindliche und rassistische Kommentare abgibt. Der Junge versucht dies wieder gutzumachen, in dem er sich für seine Bubbe entschuldigt. Aber dafür hätte ich mir am Ende noch mehr von ihr selbst erwünscht. Da haben mich andere Bücher zu dem Thema mehr abholen können. 💛
Description
Winner of the V&A Illustration for Children Award 2024
Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2023
Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2023
A beautifully illustrated and presented intergenerational graphic novel that follows 11-year-old Benji and his elderly grandmother, Bubbe Rosa, as they traverse Brooklyn and Manhattan, gathering the ingredients for a Friday night dinner.
Bubbe's relationship with the city is complex & nothing is quite as she remembered it and she feels alienated and angry at the world around her. Benji, on the other hand, looks at the world, and his grandmother, with clear-eyed acceptance. As they wander the city, we catch glimpses of Bubbe's childhood in Germany, her young adulthood in 1950s Brooklyn, and her relationships; first with a baker called Gershon, and later with successful Joe, Benji's grandfather. Gradually we piece together snippets of Bubbe's life, gaining an insight to some of the things that have formed her cantankerous personality. The journey culminates on the Lower East Side in a moving reunion between Rosa and Gershon, her first love. As the sun sets, Benji and his Bubbe walk home over the Williamsburg Bridge to make dinner.
This is a powerful, affecting and deceptively simple story of Jewish identity, of generational divides, of the surmountability of difference and of a restless city and its inhabitants.
Book Information
Posts
Eine grumpy Oma und ihr Enkel
Die jüdische Bubbe (Oma) möchte einkaufen gehen, doch all ihre Läden scheinen verschwunden zu sein. Ich verstehe, was das Buch damit aussagen will, warum Bubbe so griesgrämig ist, frauenfeindliche und rassistische Kommentare abgibt. Der Junge versucht dies wieder gutzumachen, in dem er sich für seine Bubbe entschuldigt. Aber dafür hätte ich mir am Ende noch mehr von ihr selbst erwünscht. Da haben mich andere Bücher zu dem Thema mehr abholen können. 💛