Illustrated by Valeria Cis
Kar-Ben Publishing, 2010
Hc $17.95
32 pages
Rating: 4 – but
non-Jewish kids/parents would have to refer to the glossary a LOT
Endpapers – Black – or such a dark navy blue that it
looks black.
Title Page – pale green wall, table covered with swirly
green tablecloth, seder plate, candles, Kiddish cups, and plate of matzah.
Illustrations: no
white, edge-of-page to edge-of-page, extremely appealing with strong
color. I very much like them.
Setting:
contemporary America
OSS: An only child
tells about the si different seders she’s attended since her parents divorced
three years before.
1st sentence/s: “The year after my mom and dad stopped being
married to each other, I went to two seders in two places --- one at Dad’s
apartment, and one at Mom’s house.”
The author shows, in a clever, lovely way, how the
passage of time changes things – but that with a caring, loving family, being
close to one another doesn’t have to change at all. We see new relationships, grandparents, and
friends, as well as many of the Passover traditions that would have great
meaning to a child – the charoset, the Four Questions, finding the afikomen.
The book ends with four different recipes of
charoset: Yemenite, Israeli, traditional
Askenazi, and a traditional Italian recipe with 18 ingredients (a very special
Hebrew number) that makes two quarts!
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