Meet the Matzah - Hardcover

Silberberg, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593118111 ISBN 13: 9780593118115

Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers, 2021

Synopsis

From the creator of Meet the Latkes comes the zaniest retelling of the Passover story starring an earnest matzah and his bready friends!

What makes this Passover different from all other Passovers?

Meet Alfie Koman. He's a matzah who really likes to hide. But Alfie also has a great story to tell his class of how the Hebrews fled Egypt to freedom. Too bad Loaf, the school sourdough bully, turns Alfie's Passover story upside-down. A pharaoh who is a giant cockroach? Moses as a mighty superhero? And Ten Plagues that include "No Wi-fi" and "Chocolate-turned-to-broccoli"?

Looks like it's up to Alfie and his best friend Challa Looyah to get the Passover story right. Alfie just has to come out of hiding first....

A follow-up to the hysterical Meet The Latkes, this Passover book is another mis-told holiday treat.

About this title

About the Author

Alan Silberberg (www.silberbooks.com) is an award-winning author, cartoonist and children's TV creator who has worked with Nickelodeon and Disney. He's the author and illustrator of three previous middle grade novels including Milo: Sticky Notes & Brain Freeze, which won the Sid Fleishman Humor Award and is currently in development to become an animated TV series. Meet the Latkes was Alan's debut picture book, followed by Meet the Matzah.

Reviews

PreS-Gr 3—A follow-up to Meet the Latkes, this picture book also starts with a character's confusion about a Jewish holiday. Alfie Koman, a student made of matzah, is asked by his teacher, Mrs. Crust, to share the details of Passover with his other anthropomorphic bready classmates. Alfie Koman (a play on the Passover afikomen) is just like his namesake: he likes to hide! Loaf, the class sourdough, seizes this opportunity to begin his own retelling of the story of Passover. In Loaf's tale, Pha-roach is the ruthless ruler, forcing the Hebrews to build him a swimming pool. Mighty Moses, a superhero, proclaims 10 plagues on the Pha-roach palace that includes broccoli for dessert and no Wi-Fi. Alfie will have to be brave enough to speak up and stop Loaf from ruining the retelling of Passover. This Passover story, bent with a secular lens, where "Mighty Moses" or Moses is centered as the redeemer, is a laugh-out-loud comedic book filled with puns that will be adored by fans of David Ezra Stein's Interrupting Chicken and Cece Bell's I Yam a Donkey. VERDICT A fun and silly purchase for holiday collections.—Danielle Winter, Brooklyn P.L., NY

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593118111
• ISBN 13: 9780593118115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 36