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Ben-Gur, Naomi

The Cricket and the Ant: A Shabbat Story

32 pp. | Kar-Ben | August, 2016 | Library ISBN 978-1-4677-8935-6 $17.99 | Paper ISBN 978-1-4677-9415-2 $7.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-5124-0943-7
(4) K-3 Translated by Nancy Wellins. Illustrated by Shahar Kober. In an Israeli retelling of "The Ant and the Grasshopper," Cricket plays music all week and leaves little time to prepare for Shabbat, while Ant works so hard that she oversleeps and burns her cake. Luckily, neighbor Cricket has borrowed enough ingredients to bake a cake. The rhyming text (translated from the Hebrew) is uneven, but the art adds nice cultural specificity.
Reviewer: Sarah Hannah Gomez

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