Title: Yiddish with Dick and Jane
Description: In text that captures the unique rhythms of the original Dick and Jane readers, and in 35 all-new illustrations, a story unfolds in which Dick and Jane--hero and heroine of the classic books for children that generations of Americans have used when learning to read--manage to express shades of feeling and nuances of meaning that ordinary English just can't deliver. How? By using Yiddish, employing terms that convey an attitude--part plucky self-assertion, part ironic fatalism. When Dick schmoozes, when Jane kvetches, when their children fress noodles at a Chinese restaurant, the clash of cultures produces genuine hilarity.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Yiddish language, Parodies, imitations, Humor, Readers (Primary), Vocabulary, Yiddish wit and humor, Humor, form, parodies
People: William S. Gray (1885-1960), William H. Elson (1856-1935)