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The Jester's Mom Featured in Entro Magazine, Winter 2010/2011
Young Author's Book a Powerful Legacy of Love and Laughter

"Please publish my book and see that it gets to children with cancer." That was the plea 22-year-old David Saltzman made to his family two decades ago as he lay dying of Hodgkin's disease. The book, The Jester Has Lost His Jingle, was David's senior project at Yale. It's about a court jester who wants to discover why the world has lost its sense of humor. Setting off with Pharley, his talking scepter, The Jester finds an unhappy little girl in a hospital room, and helps her realize that her sadness can be overcome by laughter--and then takes that realization back to his king

David's parents, Barbara and Joe, agreed to their son's request. Finding a publisher proved difficult; publishers either said 64 pages was too long for a children's book or that rhyming was no longer popular.
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The Jester's Mom Featured in Entro Magazine, Winter 2010/2011 Young Author's Book a Powerful Legacy of Love and Laughter "Please publish my book and see that it gets to children with cancer." That was the plea 22-year-old David Saltzman made to his family two decades ago as he lay dying of Hodgkin's disease. The book, The Jester Has Lost His Jingle, was David's senior project at Yale. It's about a court jester who wants to discover why the world has lost its sense of humor. Setting off with Pharley, his talking scepter, The Jester finds an unhappy little girl in a hospital room, and helps her realize that her sadness can be overcome by laughter--and then takes that realization back to his king David's parents, Barbara and Joe, agreed to their son's request. Finding a publisher proved difficult; publishers either said 64 pages was too long for a children's book or that rhyming was no longer popular. Read More>>
Peninsula People June 2011 Palos Verdes Estates Resident Wins National Honor - Joe Saltzman Named Teacher of the Year Joe Saltzman, a Palos Verdes Estates resident for 35 years, has been named the National Journalism & Mass Communication Teacher of the Year by the Scripps Howard Foundation. A professor of journalism at the Annenberg School for Journalism & Communication at the Universtiy of Southern California, Saltzman will be awarded the Charles E. Scripps Award at the keynote session during the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) convention in St. Louis in on Aug. 10. He will also be recognized at the Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Awards dinner May 3 in Cincinnati. Read More>>	Daily Breeze November 4, 2010 Finalist. Woman of the Year. Barbara Saltzman Barbara Saltzman made her 22-year-old son David a promise. She promised him she would publish the book he wrote and illustrated exactly as he envisioned, and that she would help get that book into the hands of every child who is diagnosed with cancer. "The Jester Has Lost His Jingle" was published in 1995, five years after David died of Hodgkin's disease. Read More>>	The Orange County Register March 2, 2009 Sixth Grader Honors Brother Who Died of Cancer Bentley Tao was Austin's twin brother. His best friend. His other half. Austin Tao, 11, has felt like part of himself is missing since Bentley died in November, just four months after his brain cancer diagnosis. On Monday, the sixth-grader from Sunkist Elementary School in Anaheim got a chance to honor his brother. And a chance to smile. Read More>>
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