"Babette Brown came to the UK after she was forced into political exile due to her opposition to Apartheid. The author of several books on early learning and child development, at the age of 70, she went on to found Persona Dolls, making dolls of many different ethnicities and types, who would tell their stories through a teacher. Children were then encouraged to offer advice and solutions to the experiences a doll describes. This practical and non-threatening approach to dealing with difficult issues has proved especially effective with children. Her charity, established in the 2000s, produce the dolls in South Africa. Thousands of teachers globally are now trained to use the Persona Dolls approach."
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Babette Brown
Babette Brown (née Kotkin, 1931 – 10 February 2019) was a South African-born British writer on race and diversity issues. Brown's mother Annie had left Lithuania to escape the Russian pogroms against the Jews. She arrived in Cape Town in 1903 and lived in District Six before moving to Johannesburg where she would marry her cousin Lipman Kotkin, and where her daughter Babette was born. She attended Parktown High School for Girls and graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a bachel
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