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Silverman, Erica

Sholom's Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer

40 pp. | Farrar | March, 2005 | Trade ISBN 0-374-38055-4 $16.00

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein. Gerstein's loose, scratchy pen seems just right to illustrate the story of the great Yiddish comic writer's Russian childhood. Mischievous Sholom's spirited personality comes alive both in Gerstein's drawings and Silverman's fluent text. An author's note, an afterword, and a bibliography round out this engaging portrait of a man who asked in his will that his name "be recalled with laughter."

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2005