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Olitzky, Kerry , Cohen, Deborah Bodin

Rembrandt Chooses a Queen

32 pp. | Behrman/Apples & Honey | January, 2025 | Trade ISBN 9781681156828 $19.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Cinzia Battistel. It’s 1660, and young Yeshiva student Samuel is a part-time apprentice to famous painter Rembrandt. Rembrandt needs inspiration for a Purim scene, but finds none of the models as “courageous, faithful, and modest” as Queen Esther. Samuel recruits his sister, pleasing both his father and Rembrandt, who both newly see how the student’s faith and art can coalesce. Well-composed, inviting illustrations capture the period dress, decor, and architecture of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Short, factual spotlights on the Purim holiday and Rembrandt’s life are appended and emphasize the Christian artist’s real-life collaboration with his city’s Jewish population.
Reviewer: Jessica Tackett MacDonald

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