![]() ![]() ![]() Unbeknownst to them, they take each other’s scarves, one a tallit and the other a keffiyeh. After playing together for hours, dark descends and they each grab a ball and a scarf and head home. ![]() SUSAN: This book from Chile fascinated me! Written originally in Spanish and translated into three languages (English, Hebrew and Arabic), the story describes the meeting of two boys in a park, each with a new soccer ball (they share a birthday) and scarf that represents their Jewish or Palestinian cultures. This week, they provide their takes for another OIB book which focuses on interactions between people of different backgrounds and cultures in Juan Pablo Iglesias’s Daniel and Ismail. Last week, Susan and Deanna looked at Lubna and Pebble to begin this month’s theme of Crossing Borders. By Susan Corapi, Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL, and Deanna Day, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA ![]()
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