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The name of the book I read is, Briar Rose by Jane Yolen. The Tom Doherty Associates Book publishing company published the book in 1992. It has 200 pages, and it is a fictional story. Jane Yolen is the award-winning author of more than 150 books for children. A ....

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.... and poems are somehow rooted in her sense of family and self. With a versatility that has led her to be called "America's Hans Christian Andersen," Yolen, the child of two writers, is a gifted and natural storyteller. Perhaps the best explanation for her outstanding accomplishments comes from Jane Yolen herself: "I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told." When asked if she had any relatives who were in concentration camps during WWII and how she became interested in the holocaust, she replied, “My family--both sides--came over at the beginning of this century and we had no family left in e ....