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Calderon, Ruth

A Rainy Day Story

32 pp. | Kar-Ben | February, 2021 | Library ISBN 978-1-5415-6038-3 $17.99 | Paper ISBN 978-1-5415-6039-0 $7.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-7284-2102-5 $7.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Noa Kelner. This book is an expansion of a passage from the Talmud about Rabbi Hanina's experience getting caught in the rain. It reads very much like a folktale and focuses on the old man's interaction with animals, nature, and the Divine, and on the ultimate lesson of finding contentment and fitting in with the natural world. The text highlights Rabbi Hanina's one-sided conversation with the heavens while also providing details about the animals he sees and his internal emotional experience. While the illustrations in general are bright and whimsical, Hanina (and his long gray beard) comes across as serious.
Reviewer: Miriam Steinberg-Egeth

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