Read for Your Life #12
Автор Katherine Paterson
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Katherine Paterson is one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved authors. Among her many awards are two Newberys and two National Book Awards, and she was recently named a "Living Legend” by the Library of Congress. She has been published in more than 22 languages in a variety of formats, from picture books to historical novels.
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Read for Your Life #12 - Katherine Paterson
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Katherine Peterson
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Metaphors to Live By
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Speeches & Writings of
KATHERINE PETERSON
National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
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Metaphors to Live By
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Metaphors to Live By
SWORDS AND PLOWSHARES CONFERENCE
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE NEW ENGLAND SUMMER INSTITUTE
AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
August 1993
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
—Isaiah 2:4
Rabbi Joseph Weizenbaum tells a story that he says came out of Israel some years ago. It seems that Henry Kissinger, on finding himself suddenly unemployed, sent his résumé to the Israeli government. After all, he reasoned, he'd done a lot for Israel; they ought to reciprocate. So they looked in the file and found out there was only one available job—curator of the Tel Aviv zoo. To their surprise, Henry took the job, and they forgot about him. Suddenly, one day, someone woke up and realized that nothing had been heard from their inexperienced if overqualified curator for months, so they sent an inspector around to see how he was doing. The inspector went down to the zoo, and she saw that it was being perfectly cared for—if in a rather obsessive manner. The grounds were totally without litter. Every cage was scrubbed down to the bare concrete. The animal's coats were gleaming. Indeed, every blade of grass had been washed and blown dry. The inspector marveled as she went from the aviary to the apes, from the