Although there are a number of valuable books on the general topic of children’s literature, either in German-speaking countries or in the United States, there is no book which analyzes this literature from the view point of liberation, support, and suppression. As a former teacher of literature and religious education I have a special interest in language and questions of theology. Language can be a means of support when it is used for claiming justice, but at the same time it can hush up facts or veil them as in the history of my own people, during the Nazi regime. Religion has been a similar tool, liberating people from slavery, as the Book of Exodus tells us, but suppressing others such as Hagar, Sarah’s Egyptian slave. Both language and ques