Happy 85th, Sonia Epstein Gidal! (German writer, "My Village" series)

[leno...@yahoo.com]

She grew up in Berlin, attended boarding school in Israel, became a
press photographer, taught art in Mount Vernon, NY in the early 1950s,
and now lives in Totnes, England.

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1955&_f=md003090
("My Day" 1955 column by Eleanor Roosevelt, with a comment on one
Gidal book)

http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&q=%22sonia+gidal%22&btnG=Search+Images
(a few covers - not sure how many links here are relevant)

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
All juveniles; with Tim Gidal, except as indicated; published by
Pantheon, except as indicated:

(Sole author) Meier Shfeya: A Children's Village in Israel,
illustrated with photographs by T. Gidal, Behrman, 1950.
Follow the Reindeer (Junior Literary Guild selection), 1959.

Sons of the Desert, 1960.
Henrietta Szold: Mother of Ten Thousand, Schocken, 1966.

"My Village" series:

My Village in Austria, 1956.
My Village in India, 1956.
My Village in Ireland, 1957.
My Village in Yugoslavia, 1957.
My Village in Norway, 1958.
My Village in Israel, 1959.

My Village in Greece, 1960.
My Village in Switzerland, 1961.
My Village in Italy, 1962.
My Village in Spain, 1962.
My Village in Denmark, 1963.
My Village in England, 1963.
My Village in Germany, 1964.
My Village in Morocco, 1964.
My Village in France, 1965.
My Village in Japan, 1966.
My Village in Finland, 1966.
My Village in Brazil, 1968.
My Village in Korea, 1968.
My Village in Ghana, 1969.

My Village in Thailand, 1970.
(Sole author) My Village in Portugal, 1972.
(Sole author) My Village in Hungary, 1974.

"Also author of documentary films 'My Friend Chico,' 1974, and 'The
Dancing Turtles,' 1974, for children's television. Contributor to
filmstrips."

Lenona.

[leno...@yahoo.com]

And, if you like, here's a roughly translated-from-German article
about her life from 1930 through 1947:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.bildung-gegen-antisemitismus.de/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D44%26Itemid%3D33&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=3&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsonia%2Bgidal%2B1922%26hl%3Den

http://www.bildung-gegen-antisemitismus.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=33
(this is the original)

Lenona.