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Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment

Esta tienda vende una amplia variedad de instrumentos mágicos como telescopios y relojes de arena. Está ubicada en el lado Norte del Callejón Diagón y, desde hoy, es propiedad de Anthony Simon y su familia.

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Oskar and the Eight Blessings by Richard Simon and Tanya Simon

Oskar is a refugee from Nazi Europe. On the seventh day of Hanukkah, which is also Christmas Eve in 1938 his parent’s give him a photo of his aunt living in New York with her address on the back. They give him a photo and board him on a ship to set sail to America, “-and his father’s last words to him: “Oskar, even in bad times, people can be good. You have to look for the blessings” (Richard and Tanya Simon 3). Leaving his family and home behind, Oskar must travel through this big city in search of his aunt that he has never met and before sunset, just before she lights the shamash. Along the way, Oskar meets new people that all display small acts of kindness, in which then Oskar remembers his father’s last words.

This book was published in 2015 by Roaring Brook Press and was written by the husband-and-wife writing team Richard and Tanya Simon who had written the story about Richard’s grandfather. His grandfather had traveled to New York and had started his new life there right before the Holocaust. Richard writes about his thoughts of how life would’ve been if they had gone back to Europe and of how he would have evaded the Nazis, which is where the inspiration of this story came to be. Richard states in the Author’s Note, “that’s why Oskar escapes the nightmare of Nazi Germany and finds himself a part of history, not just because of what he lived through, but also because of what he can now hope to become” (36). This is another great example of a child refugee and what he had to endure on his journey to freedom that can be used to educate children. Here is a link for a little more information about this book.

https://us.macmillan.com/oskarandtheeightblessings/tanyasimon/9781596439498/

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Oskar and the Eight Blessings

Oskar and the Eight Blessings

Hannukah starts Saturday December 24 and ends Sunday January 1, so a very happy Hannukah to everyone who celebrates! In honour of the start of Hannukah, I’m sharing a beautiful, elegant picture book that has a particular poignancy in our messy modern world. It is a story about everyday blessings, and the ways in which small acts of kindness can change someone’s entire world. Oskar and the Eight…

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Oskar and the Eight Blessings by Richard Simon

Oskar and the Eight Blessings by Richard Simon

A refugee seeking sanctuary from the horrors of Kristallnacht, Oskar arrives by ship in New York City with only a photograph and an address for an aunt he has never met. It is both the seventh day of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve, 1938. As Oskar walks the length of Manhattan, from the Battery to his new home in the north of the city, he passes experiences the city’s many holiday sights, and…

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Is it possible... that God hath given to his church books to serve for her rule, and that he hath at the same time permitted that the first originals of these books should be lost ever since the beginning of the Christian religion?

Richard Simon

Yep.

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New Hampshire has an all-female delegation. Sam Gordon is not impressed. 

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These were pretty fun to play with that one day. I have cooler things to play with now, of course, but back in the day they were pretty great.