2016 YALSA Hub Reading Challenge

[Margaret]

For anyone considering this challenge -- or just browsing the list -- I could not recommend Briar Rose more highly. A fairy tale plot recast as a Holocaust story? Yes, and also a book with a lot to say about the nature and power of storytelling and its influence on our lives. It took Jane Yolen, an accomplished oral storyteller as well as a polymath of literary genres, to create this book.