Every year, just before Rosh Hashanah, the rabbi of Nemirov disappears. The villagers are certain their rabbi flies up to heaven to speak with God before the fate of every soul is decided for the coming year. But a skeptical Litvak scoffs at the villagers, claiming miracles cannot happen, and secretly follows the rabbi early one morning. What he witnesses--an enormous act of human compassion--changes his heart. Readers will be taken to a higher place in this celebration of the power of miracles.
Eric A. Kimmel is a celebrated children's author and master storyteller who has won the Sydney Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award. His work has been honored with the National Jewish Book Award as well as the Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award. His
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, was a Caldecott Honor Book.
Jill Weber is a children's book illustrator and designer. Kirkus Reviews raved that the "childlike feel" of her gouache illustrations for Ann Purmell's Maple Syrup Season "suits the family-centered text perfectly." She lives in New Hampshire.