How Do You Even Write a Book for Kids About the Holocaust Anymore? An Interview with Danica Davidson

In children’s literature we are caught in a perpetual struggle to figure out what is and isn’t appropriate for child readers. We don’t want to candy coat the past, but at the same time we want to offer hope in some form. And in no subject area is this more keenly discussed than the Holocaust. What do you tell? When? How much?

It’s all about balance. Too much of any one side of one topic or too much on any other side leaves you with one-sided accounts. In the past we suffered from our lib...