Lovely art is striking in a scary story. Rose, Deborah Lee. The Rose Horse. Illustrated by Greg Shed. Novella for grades 3-6.
Local color is turn of the century.
Pencil sketches fit the tone. Translated from Hebrew. Novella for grades 4 and up. A bittersweet story romanticizes the time when Israel was a new state through a humorous teen narrator stuck in a provincial town. A sensitive shoemaker teaches her to balance dreams and reality through his Holocaust experience which is portrayed in original symbols.