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Sisters Ruth and Debby and friends demonstrate the meaning of many Jewish holidays. Sadie Rose Weilerstein, author of 15 children's books, including the well-known K'tonton series, died of a heart attack on June 23 in Rockville, Md. She was 98. She wrote her first book, "What Danny Did," in 1928. In 1935, she published "The Adventures of K'tonton, the Jewish Tom Thumb," and later wrote three more... More

Sisters Ruth and Debby and friends demonstrate the meaning of many Jewish holidays. Sadie Rose Weilerstein, author of 15 children's books, including the well-known K'tonton series, died of a heart attack on June 23 in Rockville, Md. She was 98. She wrote her first book, "What Danny Did," in 1928. In 1935, she published "The Adventures of K'tonton, the Jewish Tom Thumb," and later wrote three more books about K'tonton as well as a compilation of her most popular stories, "The Best of K'tonton." Weilerstein, a native of Rochester, N.Y., began her career by reading stories to her oldest son Herschel ...Sadie Rose was born in 1894 in Rochester, NY, to immigrant parents from Lithuania. Her father, Bernard Rose, was the owner of an optics factory. In 1892 he married Tillie (n�e Berger, 1872-1951), who worked with him in the family business. In addition to Sadie, the couple had three daughters-Toby (b. 1896), Frieda (b. 1906) and Anna (b. 1908)-and one son, Aaron (b. 1899 or 1900). She attended the University of Rochester, graduating with a B.A. degree in English in 1917, in one of the first classes to admit women. From 1917 to 1920, Sadie taught in the high school for the deaf in Rochester, communicating with students via the then-popular finger alphabet. In 1921 she married Baruch Reuben Weilerstein (c. 1893-1963), a rabbi who had interviewed for a pulpit in Rochester. After first living in Brooklyn, the couple moved to the Community Synagogue in Atlantic City, NJ, where they remained for many years. Sadie became an active rebbetzin, working in the Sisterhood, writing plays and serving in a variety of offices

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