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Stone Soup with Matzoh Balls: A Passover Tale in Chelm
32 pp.
| Whitman |
March, 2014 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8075-7620-5$16.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Maryam Tabatabaei.
A stranger arrives in Chelm on Passover. Let "all who are hungry come and eat," sure, but the villagers don't have much to share. The stranger produces a stone, promising to make matzoh ball soup...and you know the rest. Glaser's well-cadenced text and Tabatabaei's digital-looking art are as light as the Chelmites' matzo balls ("...so light they can almost fly").