From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt , a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII. I’m absolutely delighted to welcome Faithful+Gould to our collaborative team, made up of organisations and individuals from across the industry who are all working together to promote the industry to the next generation. The support of Faithful+Gould is huge and we hope this will encourage others across the industry to join in supporting When I Grow Up. 🚀 Forced to quit school because he was Jewish, a 20-year-old from a wealthy family wrote of organizing a Zionist group, celebrating Bar Mitzvah, and his global writing campaign to emigrate to the U.S. We also welcome collaboration and sharing of the storybook with other contractors, subcontractors and supply chain partners. The book is completely devoid of any branding, so that others can easily use it to deliver their own social value and engage local communities. The storybook can be used as needed, and resources created to target a wider range of children. We invite all of Keltbray, as well as our delivery partners, local schools, charities and community groups to use the book and help maximise its reach. A 20-year-old boy wrote of his infatuation with a girl before immersing himself into his faith to become a Bokher and lamenting his lost youth.

In When I Grow Up, Krimstein shows us the stories of these six young men and women in riveting, almost cinematic narratives, full of humor, yearning, ambition, and all the angst of the teenage years. It's as if half a dozen new Anne Frank stories have suddenly come to light, framed by the dramatic story of the documents' rediscovery. This year Keltbray are celebrating World Children’s Day on 20 November with the exciting re-launch of the bespoke, award-winning storybook, ‘When I Grow Up’. The book is written by Rich Smith, Pre-Construction Director of Highways at Keltbray, to inspire as many bright young minds as possible and encourage them to consider a career in construction. Paired with interactive workshops, the book is aimed at primary school aged children and promotes STEM as an exciting and engaging career. Of the book, Rich says: For us this partnership is mutually beneficial, supporting our recruitment strategy by helping to inspire and motivate our future workforce, thus ensuring our next generation of talent will enable us to deliver on our purpose of engineering a better future for our planet and its people.” From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII. When I Grow Up’ and Safer Highways are delighted to announce a partnership which will see a collaborative approach help the social value initiative reach as many children as possible.This book claims to be nonfiction, presenting the autobiographies of six Jewish youths written in the 1930s when they were mostly 19- or 20-years old, but as I read I started to have a queasy distrust of the presentation, feeling that Ken Krimstein's adaptation was intruding upon or standing between me and the original documents. I was able to find a translation of Beba Epstein's actual autobiography online at https://museum.yivo.org/translations/... and as I read through it I could see the massive liberties Krimstein had taken in his dramatization of it. I assume he did the same to the rest of the "autobiographies," and I just wish he and the publisher had been more upfront about that aspect. Readers will recognize themselves in these stories—some of the content is very specific to time, place, and culture, but much of it is universal to the young person’s experience—hopes and dreams for the future, struggles with school and parents, crushes, attempts to forge an identity, friendships made and broken. When I Grow Up and Faithful+Gould are delighted to announce a new partnership for 2023 which will see a collaborative approach in helping the social value initiative reach as many children as possible. Al Yankovic's "When I Grow Up", is brilliant. It is a fun filled book full of rhyming. Billy explains all the things he wants to be when he grows up in a detailed and creative fashion. He thinks since his grandpa has done so many things that he can too. Not only does this book teach rhyming, but it also teaches children that they can be anything and teaches about relationships.

When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers by Ken Krimstein is a difficult book, for me, to review. Do I talk about the six stories? The artwork? Or, what makes the work so powerful, the contrast between the optimism and future-looking nature of these young people's stories and the knowledge of what likely happened to most of them and their families? The Rule Breaker — a 11-year-old girl enters the contest even though she isn’t old enough, and she is the only one of the six in which we know their fate The Folk Singer — a 19-year-old girl’s bond with her father and their love of music, even though he betrayed their family and left to be with another woman

Animations

In When I Grow Up , Krimstein shows us the stories of these six young men and women in riveting, almost cinematic narratives, full of humor, yearning, ambition, and all the angst of the teenage years. It’s as if half a dozen new Anne Frank stories have suddenly come to light, framed by the dramatic story of the documents’ rediscovery. Like any responsible business, we at Faithful+Gould understand we have a moral obligation in improving real lives and playing a part in creating resilient, aspirational communities. It is therefore vital that businesses such as ours continue to work with the world of education, and together continue to empower and support future generations to build a legacy for themselves and those around them” These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before the horror of the Holocaust forever altered the lives of the young people who wrote them. One night while getting ready for bed a little boy starts to wonder what will life be like when he grows up. He could be a painter, a musician, a mountain climber, a mayor… After writing this I saw a review on LibraryThing that highlights that Krimstein seems to have changed the spirit of these letters. It worth noting.

When I Grow Up' by Tim Minchin, and illustrated by Steve Antony, is a fanciful story about the excitement of considering what to be as a grown-up. It not only considers more academically-oriented ideas such as being smart enough to answer all types of questions, but also the more innocent and endearing thoughts of kids who say and think the darndest things, such as being able to eat sweets all of the time, while going to bed as late as one would like. The perspective is endearing, in that it truly shows how children think and what they consider to be the most important aspects of childhood that will clearly pave the way to adulthood. I appreciated, however, that this was not about how these people died but how they lived. In one case a multi-generational tale of a family with eight daughters, in another someone writing letters to be admitted to the United States, in still another a folk singer. Much of what they recount is ordinary teenage stuff along with some of the clash of modernity vs. tradition. In this way it both recreates a lost world and also shows how similar that world is to our own.

Safer Highways becomes the first organisation to formally announce its public support of the When I Grow Up project which is expected to be embraced by the industry. When I Grow Up seeks to promote the construction industry to children who will hopefully consider a career in the industry in later life. On the plus side, with this book I complete one of my many projects for the year. In this case it's reading all the books on NPR's "Books We Love 2021: Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels" list. Rich Smith, Author of When I Grow Up, said “It’s incredible to have the support of a prestigious member organisation, and industry leader like Safer Highways. We want the book to be used by organisations across the industry to deliver social value and this partnership is in complete alignment with our purpose.”

A little boy shares with his mom his dreams of what he might be when he grows up in this tender picture boo k from Julie Chen the host of Big Brother and formerly the host of The Talk and N ew York Times bestselling artist and Caldecott Honor recipient Diane Goode. The Letter-Writer — a glimpse into the Yid­dish press, as well as the Kafkaesque ordeal of a 20-year-old Jew fight­ing Amer­i­can legal restric­tions against immi­gra­tionThe partnership will see Faithful+Gould distribute copies of When I Grow Up to their own staff as well as the local communities they work in. The text of this sweet picture-book is inspired by Tim Minchin's song, When I Grow Up, composed as part of his Matilda: The Musical, and is paired with lovely artwork from illustrator Steve Antony. Children envision all the things they will be able to do and experience, once they are grown up, those very things that will provide them with the knowledge and qualities that define what it is to be a grown-up in the first place, at least in a child's eyes... Wisely, this young hero realizes that the answer to "what will you be when you grow up?" may not be simple. Learning from his grandfather, who held many jobs throughout his life, the boy suggests one outlandish occupation after another, not ruling out the possibility of trying each in turn. The theme for 2022 is Inclusion, For Every Child perfectly complimenting ‘When I Grow Up’ which was written to engage all, with a diverse and relatable class of characters to motivate as many different children as possible and show that construction is a career for all and that they can have their say, make a difference and leave a lasting impact. Integrating perfectly to launch on World Children’s Day, which is UNICEF’s annual day of action for children, by children. First established in 1954 as Universal Children’s Day, it’s celebrated each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children’s welfare. From climate change, education and mental health, to ending racism and discrimination, children and young people are raising their voices on the issues that matter to their generation and calling for adults to create a better future. We want to be part of this, and ‘When I Grow Up’ aims to capture the imaginations of children to show that a career in construction or STEM can be multi-faceted, forward thinking and, overall, integral to positive progress.