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Frustrated with being swung over the villagers’ heads as part of the Rosh Hashanah tradition to bring good luck, the chickens run away in protest and leave all the residents trying to figure out a way to bring them back, including one young boy who soon comes to understand the chickens’ perspective.

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Erica Silverman is the author of several picture books, including Raisel's Riddle.

Matthew Trueman has done illustration work for various book and magazine publishers. This is his first picture book.
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Kindergarten-Grade 6-A story about the custom of Kapores, told by a man looking back on his childhood in a 19th-century Russian village. As described here, the ritual involves holding a chicken over someone's head while reciting a prayer in order to rid the person of the year's misdeeds. Triggering a commotion in the prayer house, the boy is sent outside and observes the chicken population leaving town. They're fed up with being vehicles for a New Year's clean slate. The boy pleads with the revolutionaries, saying he needs them to make Kapores so that his father will be proud of him. A hen asks, "Boychick- for this, do you really need a chicken?" In this skillful adaptation of a story by Sholom Aleichem, Silverman's addition of a young narrator lends immediacy and empathy, and streamlines the story with no loss of flavor and point. Though the tale is accessible and enjoyable, a discussion of Kapores beyond what is offered here will increase children's understanding and appreciation of the story. The comic alliteration and in-your-beak attitude of the cheeky chickens, reinforced by the handsomely humorous paintings, are appealing. Executed in layers of ink, pencil, gouache, acrylic, and oil, the illustrations are a wonderful combination of modern and folk art. The fiercely funny fowl, with long necks, whitish bodies, and rich red coxcombs, squawk right off the page. Good New Year's-let alone Rosh Hashanah-stories are in short supply. This is one to crow about.
Nancy Palmer, The Little School, Bellevue, WA
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  • PublisherDutton Juvenile
  • Publication date2003
  • ISBN 10 0525468625
  • ISBN 13 9780525468622
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages32
  • IllustratorTrueman Matthew
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