DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my daughters,
for allowing me to teach them,

and to my parents, Sidney and Diana,
for teaching me.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Fostering diversity and multi-cultural awareness in public schools is an important goal, but also merely one of many. The job of public schools to realize and balance many (and sometimes competing) objectives is a tough one. I would like to thank the Cornwall-Lebanon School District for their concrete actions in support of diversity, especially Cornwall Elementary School and its principal Mr. Charles Kindt, Jr. I would also like to thank my daughters' teachers who have so graciously accepted me into their classrooms for my holiday presentations: Mrs. Elizabeth Currier, Miss Staci Ferguson, Mrs. Jennell Fuchs, Mrs. Sandy Huber, Mr. Jim Keesey, Mrs. Diane Kurtz, Mrs. Lynnette Peterschmidt, Mrs. Laurie Vannucci and Mrs. Nancy Zarek.

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Copyright (c) 1997, 2001, Benjamin Slotznick