Praise for A Hen For Izzy Pippik

“This is a book to savor and reread …”

Booklist, February 2012

 

 

 

 

Praise for Bagels from Benny

“The book is a little masterpiece”

Teacher Magazine, Oct. 2003

Praise for Aubrey’s Storytelling

“Aubrey was absolutely magical, enchanting, and captivating. In fact, one of our Rabbis stated that he was the best storyteller that he has ever heard!”

Rachel Kamin, Director, Temple Israel Libraries & Media Center, West Bloomfield MI

 

“Aubrey Davis defies superlatives. His repertoire is amazing and his ability to hold the audience’s attention is legendary. He can tell stories to preschoolers and elementary school students as well as their parents….He is very creative and chooses his stories to match the audience in front of him. The adults (teachers, parents, older students) were as mesmerized as were the children. “

Penny Fransblow, Head: Norman Berman Children’s Library, Montreal, April 2012

Links

Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge

www.ishk.net/

Today humanity faces unprecedented challenges. How can we apply advances in science and technology to ensure health and safety for all the world’s people? Can we learn to tolerate and appreciate cultural diversity in an ever-shrinking global community? Can we learn to manage the planet’s dwindling vital resources and basic life-support systems before it’s too late?

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Many worthy organizations address these issues in the political, cultural, and humanitarian spheres. But none focus, as does ISHK on the root cause—our very nature as human beings.

ISHK takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the questions of who we are, where we came from, and what we might become. It highlights contributions from contemporary psychology, education, anthropology, medicine, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and ecology—as well as from traditional systems of knowledge and learning with ancient roots.

Hoopoe Books

www.hoopoekids.com/

Hoopoe tales come from a rich tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Middle East. For more than a thousand years, people have told these stories to their children, not only to entertain them, but also to help young people understand their world.

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Schools for young children were rare, but storytelling was not. Education came from stories.

These stories can help children understand human nature. They encourage qualities such as self-reliance, the ability to overcome irrational fears caused by things children do not as yet understand, peaceful negotiation rather than violent confrontation, and much else.

This site includes downloadable parent/teacher manuals and a booklet that outlines the unique qualities of Teaching-Stories, their benefits according to current brain research and how you can use them with your children.

Institute for Cross-Cultural Exchange (ICE)

www.iceducation.org/

ICE/IEI is a Canadian charity dedicated to promoting cross-cultural education. It encourages learning about other cultures and understanding between them. Its current priority is to donate high quality illustrated folk tales from the Middle East and Central Asia to literacy programs helping children in need.

Judaism 101

www.jewfaq.org/

Introduction to Judaism

www.myjewishlearning.com/xcommon/Hot_Topics/ primers_index.htm

PJ Library

ww.pjlibrary.org

Jewish Encyclopedia

www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp