The original illustrations featured in this exhibition at the National Museum of American Jewish History represented a remarkable flowering of picture books on Jewish themes, chosen as a sampling of the best illustrated Jewish literature for children produced in the 1990s. Like all good children's book art, the pictures impart an added dimension to the stories they illustrate, while also making imaginative statements of their own.

In partnership with area schools, the Museum invited fifth- and sixth-grade students to write gallery labels responding to the illustrations. Their words afforded a fresh and often touching perspective on the artwork.

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We invite you to contribute your own exhibition labels. Navigate through the exhibition by clicking on one of the pictures like those shown above. Read the labels that others have written. Then, write your own label and submit it to us. We will add it to the page for everyone to read.

Participating in the label-writing project were students from:

• Isabel Gurbarg's sixth-grade class, Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School, Philadelphia

• Toby Frey's and Diane Lapat's fifth-grade class, William H. Loesche Elementary School, Philadelphia

• Marsha Messinger's and Ida Weinberg's fifth-grade classes, Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School, Forman Center, in Melrose Park.

The artists represented in the museum exhibition were:

• Bethanne Andersen
• Michelle Edwards
• Mordicai Gerstein
• Dom Lee
• Brian Pinkney
• Mark Podwal
• Neil Waldman
• David Wisniewski
• Jane Breskin Zalben
• Malcah Zeldis