A smiling mermaid sits in a lounge chair, surrounded by water. Fish with wings fly around her, and a man looks on while standing in the water.
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Rutu Modan, illustration for The Mermaid in the Bathtub, by Nurit Zarchi (Restless Books). ©2020 Rutu Modan.

Special Storytime with Tal Goldfajn

Artists & Authors
For Families
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Free with Museum admission

Join Tal Goldfajn as she reads her translation of The Mermaid in the Bathtub, a charming re-imagining of Hans Christian Anderson’s classic story by beloved Israeli author-and-illustrator duo Nurit Zarchi and Rutu Modan. Visitors will enjoy a reading of the book and learn about Tal’s process translating the story from Hebrew.

Book signing to follow program. Can’t make it to the event? You may reserve signed books online.

Who You'll Meet
Tal Goldfajn standing in front of patterned wall, wearing a red scarf

Tal Goldfajn

Tal Goldfajn is a linguist, translator and translation scholar. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Spanish and Portuguese Studies department. Together with her students at UMass Amherst she founded the Pipa Project initiative for the promotion of translated children’s literature and multilingual storytelling.

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A mermaid sits on the edge of a bathtub with a bird perched on her shoulder. A pirate ship on the ocean is seen in the background.

The Mermaid in the Bathtub