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Pinkwater, Daniel

Beautiful Yetta's Hanukkah Kitten

32 pp. | Feiwel | October, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-312-62134-6 $17.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Jill Pinkwater. In her second book, the Brooklyn-based Jewish-mama hen and her Spanish-speaking parrot pals find a lost kitten during Hanukkah. Yetta knows what to do: "take her to the old grandmother!" Kitten and Bubbie find companionship--and the birds benefit from homemade latkes. The speech-bubble text is in English and Spanish or Yiddish (phonetic pronunciation included). Energetic limited-palette illustrations fly off the pages.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2014