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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).
The whole city was talking about Regina’s wedding. I should tell you first that Regina is one of our former students. People were saying, “Yes, Regina is à la franca” (the expression means “European…
When I came back, he was gone.
My mother was in the bathroom
crying, my sister in her crib
restless but asleep. The sun
was shining in the bay window,
the grass had just been cut.
No one mentioned…
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