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Here are our top 20 books last month . . .
1. Mistletoe and the Emerging Future of Integrative Oncology
3. Advent and Christmas Stories: A Treasury of Stories, Verses, and Songs
4. Autumn (board book)
5. Winter (board book)
6. The Yule Tomte and the Little Rabbits: A Christmas Story for Advent
7. Summer (board book)
8. Spring (board book)
9. Simplicity Parenting; Using the Power of Less to Raise Happy, Secure Children
10. Around the Year
11. Ollie's Ski Trip
12. Story of the Snow Children
13. Finger Strings: A Book of Cat’s Cradles and String Figures
14. Wonderful Adventures of Nils
15. Crafts through the Year: How to Make Traditional Gifts and Decorations for Every Season (2nd ed.)
17. Story of the Butterfly Children
18. Elsa Beskow Gift Collection: Peter in Blueberry Land and Other Beautiful Books
19. Sun Egg (2nd ed.)
20. Peter and Lotta's Christmas (2nd ed.)
This week bids mention yet again of the passing of a longtime friend and contributor to the work of SteinerBooks.
Marsha Post crossed the threshold of death early in the morning of July 8, 2022. She was hired by the late Gene Gollogly in 2005 as an in-house translator and editor, but her tasks and responsibilities soon proved to be far broader—answering phones, writing letters, organizing our archive of published books, serving as our liaison to US Waldorf Schools, and much more besides. In those early days at SteinerBooks, she also served on the General Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America.
Marsha ceased working full time in 2017 but continued up until very recently to translate. As her health continued to deteriorate these past years, she met each new challenge with calm and seemingly increasing equanimity, which served to make even more apparent the profound spiritual strength and fearlessness she had always carried within her. She was a deep and devoted student of anthroposophy, a loyal friend, and utterly inimitable in her style and bearing, which is as it should be. We will continue to hold her in our thoughts. —John-Scott
David Kennedy and Waldorf Today posted this review of Educating Traumatized Children Waldorf Education in Crisis Intervention.
Educating Traumatized Children: Waldorf Education in Crisis Intervention
Reviewed by David Kennedy, Waldorf Today
Our book reviews are arranged many weeks in advance. I had no way of knowing that current events in Europe would make the review of Educating Traumatized Children all the more relevant.
Teachers and parents will both sense the relevance of this book in the modern educational landscape. Trauma, much as we might hope to relegate it to the purview of special educators and therapists, has become a daily facet of life.
Gone are the days when only one or two children in a class were in need of "special help".
Bernd Ruf found his calling at the time of the 2006 Lebanon War. Since then he has facilitated the development of "Emergency Education". He and teams of teachers, doctors, psychologists, and therapists have taken part in crisis interventions around the world. They work with psychologically traumatized children and young people in war zones and disaster areas.
Bernd Ruf presents an anthroposophical understanding of trauma itself. There is a an extensive examination of psychological trauma and healing the frozenness of trauma. The book contains many vignettes of their trauma work and concludes with emergency education as threshold education.
Although the book is written primarily out of the experience of emergency educators in trauma situations, I would imagine that many classroom teachers and parents would find much they recognize in their "normal" world.
Five stars. Great book.
READ AN EXCERPT: "EMERGENCY EDUCATION"