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A 2007 Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winner
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PreS-K. The Jewish harvest celebration of Sukkot is hardly Hanukkah as far as the world of children's books is concerned, so this volume makes a nice addition to the small body literature about the holiday, which includes Barbara Diamond Goldin's Night Lights: A Sukkot Story (1995). Bubbe Isabella, her sukkah completed, has made a lemon cake to share with visitors. Unfortunately, her visitors are all animals, and they prefer eating the fruits and vegetables that decorate the structure. The moth sips from the grapes, the squirrel nibbles the corn, the porcupine gnaws at the walls. Bubbe doesn't mind; she likes the company, even after the cake gets squashed. When a boy comes by, there's nothing left to share, but he only wants material for a Simchat Torah flag, which leads readers to the next Jewish holiday on the calendar. It's unfortunate that the protagonist isn't a child, with whom kids might more easily identify, and the art's dull green-blue cast is a bit somber. Still, the story, told in a cumulative house-that-Jack-built fashion, is a friendly introduction to the basics of the holiday. Ilene Cooper
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- PublisherPaw Prints 2008-05-09
- ISBN 10 143527332X
- ISBN 13 9781435273320
- BindingLibrary Binding
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