The Schmutzy Family - Hardcover

Rosenberg, Madelyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823423719 ISBN 13: 9780823423712

Publisher: Holiday House, 2012

Synopsis

Sunday through Friday, the Schmutzy children are encouraged to explore, experiment, and create. It's messy work, involving mud pies, tomato sauce, worms, and frogs! But on Friday morning, Mama exclaims, "Look at this dirt....And it's nearly SHABBOS. We can't bring in the Sabbath smelling like COWS!" Here is a lively celebration of Sabbath traditions!

About this title

About the Author:

Madelyn Rosenberg is a journalist and picture book author. Kirkus Reviews called THE SCHMUTZY FAMILY "delightful and unpretentious." This is her first novel for children. She lives in Virginia.

Paul Meisel is the author and illustrator of See Me Run, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book, and See Me Dig, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book, and is the illustrator of many books for young people, including The Schmutzy Family by Madelyn Rosenberg, a Sydney Taylor Honor Book. He lives in Connecticut.

From Booklist:

Stories filled with muck and mess are fun for young preschoolers, and in this title they will enjoy the smelly, yucky games celebrated on each wild double-page spread, especially since—surprise!—the grown-ups join in the fun. After wading in the swamp on Sunday, the six Schmutzy kids bring lots of mud home with them. The next day, they make mud pies, and the illustrations show them slopping around in the kitchen. On the following days, they bring a bucket of earthworms inside, paint pictures on the wallpaper, and make the sink a natural habitat for frogs and lizards. Then on Friday, Mama insists that they clean up for Shabbat, and the pictures are just as entertaining as they show the family getting “unstunk” and “unswamped,” freeing the earthworms and frogs, and walking to synagogue. Then on Sunday, they pass a huge mud puddle—and Mama does a cannonball. With ink, watercolor, acrylic, and pencil, Meisel’s pictures extend the rumpus, and kids will have fun with the text’s occasional Yiddish words (explained in a glossary), especially farshtunken (stinky). Preschool-Grade 2. --Hazel Rochman

About this edition

• Publisher: Holiday House
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0823423719
• ISBN 13: 9780823423712
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Meisel Paul