Judith Weinshall Liberman Bücher

THE LITTLE SONGBIRD tells the story of a little bird living on a farm and feeling useless because while each of the other animals on the farm has a job to do, she does not. The little bird feels depressed. So one day, just to cheer herself up, the little bird begins to sing, and after seeing the positive reaction of all the other members of the farm to her beautiful singing, the bird feels that her job is to sing and that she has become a useful member of the community. THE LITTLE SONGBIRD will inspire readers to pursue their dreams and perhaps some day their effort will be appreciated by others.

THE BIRD WHO WENT TO HEAVEN tells the story of two children, a boy and his little sister, who find a dead bird in the forest. The children bury the bird where they find her and put a marker on top of her burial place, but, a few months later, when they return to the forest and dig around, looking for the dead bird, they cannot find her. The boy then suggests to his sister that perhaps the dead bird went to Heaven. The story will raise intriguing questions in the mind of the reader, young or old.

In I WANT A DOG, a boy tells us how he has been trying to persuade his mother that she should allow him to have a dog. One by one, he goes through his mother's objections to his having a dog, and he explains how he has tried to counter each of her objections. Although his counter-arguments are at times far-fetched, they are always amusing. The reader will find satisfaction in the fact that the boy never loses his hope and perseveres in his effort to achieve his goal.

RUTHIE AND HER ANCESTORS tells the story of a young girl who becomes curious about her ancestry. She is particularly eager to find out whether one of her ancestors was a king, which would make her a princess of sorts. Her father begins telling her the story of her ancestry going all the way back to Abraham the Patriarch, but the story is so long that she falls asleep before her father finishes the story. Yet when she falls asleep, she dreams about searching for her ancestors at various times and places in history. What she discovers in the course of her dream makes her realize that she may be a princess after all.

SONNETS OF LOSS AND TRIUMPH is a collection of sonnets written by author Judith Weinshall Liberman when she was ninety-one years old. The book is Ms. Liberman's third book of poems. Before writing the sonnets presented in this book, she had published two books of poems, REFLECTIONS (with her daughter, Laura Liberman, M.D.) in 2012, and PASSION in 2013. She had also published a book titled ZINA (2013) about her mother's life and poetry. The story of Job, as told in the Old Testament book of JOB, plays an important part in the sonnets contained in the present book, since the story of Job raises fundamental questions about justice, as do these sonnets. The sonnets in SONNETS OF LOSS AND TRIUMPH convey some of the important lessons Ms. Liberman has learned during her long life.

A woman reflects on the members of her family who are no longer alive.

FROM BLACK AND WHITE TO COLOR demonstrates the journey of a picture book illustrator from black and white illustrations to full color ones. Over a period of five years, from 2015 to 2020, the author had Gau Family Studio, a company dedicated to picture book illustration, illustrate nineteen of her books. During that whole period, the author collaborated with Cindy Nguyen, Project Manager at Gau Family Studio, on creating and perfecting the illustrations for her stories. Black and white illustrations from each of the nineteen picture books which the author and Cindy Nguyen collaborated on getting illustrated are presented in this volume, alongside their final, full color version, so the reader can follow the illustrator's journey from non-color to the world of color, and gain insight into the journey taken by a skilled illustrator of picture books.