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Once upon a Potty—Boy
Alona Frankel
1975
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Alona Frankel is an author and illustrator renowned for over thirty children’s picture books. She is most famous for her classic series Once Upon a Potty (original Hebrew Sir hasirim; 1975; 1st English edition, 1980), which has sold millions of copies worldwide. Born in Kraków, Poland, Frankel settled in Israel in 1949. In 2005, she received the Sapir Prize for Literature and Yad Vashem’s Buchman Prize for her literary memoir Yalda (Girl; 2004). Her second memoir volume, Naara (Teen) appeared in 2009. Other major Frankel works include Sefer hapilpilim (The Family of Tiny White Elephants; 1980) and Sipur al nesiḥa (The Princess and the Caterpillar; 1983).
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She peeped…
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