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Ages 5-8. Shopping in her Jewish neighborhood for ingredients to make a secret birthday cake for her mother, Sarah meets lots of friendly people, and each storekeeper shares a special secret for baking success. Only in the Singers' grocery store does Sarah feel uncomfortable. They are kind to her, but she knows about their ugly secret. She tries not to stare, but she knows that the Nazis had tattooed numbers on the arms of Mr. and Mrs. Singer and had put the couple in a concentration camp because they were Jews. However, the Singers insist that it isn't a secret; it must never be a secret; otherwise, it could happen again. Rand's soft-textured, realistic watercolors capture the postwar ethnic community in all its richness, including the foods in the stores and the individual characters. The story is upbeat, even sentimental: The people are all loving and gentle; everyone smiles at Sarah, not a crotchety one among them. The quiet sorrow of the survivors is here, and this could be a starting point for introducing the Holocaust to young children, though the references are so oblique that adults will have to supply much more information. What is compelling is the sense of secrets, both joyful and appalling. Hazel Rochman
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