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Silverman, Erica

Raisel's Riddle

34 pp. | Farrar | March, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-374-36168-1 $$16.00
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Susan Gaber. Although Raisel must labor as the nasty cook's helper in a rabbi's home after her grandfather's death, she has been taught well by her Zaydeh about the value of study and is no helpless Cinderella. It is Raisel's intelligence, not her beauty, that entrances the princely Rabbi's son after her kindness to a beggar woman wins her three wishes--among them a beautiful Purim costume. Gaber conveys a folkish simplicity with a sophisticated line to evoke a Poland of both dreams and reality.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 1999

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