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Alona Frankel

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Alona Frankel was born on June 27, 1937 in Cracow, Poland. As a Jew under the German occupation of World War II, she was forced along with her parents and all other Jews into the Lvov Ghetto. After the ghetto was liquidated by the Nazis, Alona was sent off to hide in a remote, Catholic village, with forged documents. Pretending to be a Christian child, she worked and slept in a barn with her new friends the pigs.

Alona and her parents survived the World War and immigrated to Israel in 1949. She began illustrating books in her thirties and in the mid-70's wrote and illustrated the picturebook "Once Upon a Potty" [in Hebrew: "Sir Ha'Sirim"] which grew into an international bestseller, including in English, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Hu
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Average rating: 3.82 · 2,138 ratings · 219 reviews · 63 distinct worksSimilar authors
Once Upon a Potty: Boy

3.83 avg rating — 1,129 ratings — published 1980 — 30 editions
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Once Upon a Potty: Girl

3.82 avg rating — 884 ratings — published 1984 — 40 editions
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Girl - My Childhood and the...

3.54 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions
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The Family of Tiny White El...

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The Moon and the Stars

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Prudence's Get Well Book

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Prudence's Goodnight Book

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Jewish Days & Holidays

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I Want My Mother

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נערה

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