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PICTURE BOOKS

Goldin, Barbara Diamond

The Passover Cowboy

32 pp. | Behrman/Apples & Honey | February, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-68115-527-2 $17.95

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Gina Capaldi. Recently arrived Russian immigrant Jacob invites his new friend Benito to his family's first Passover Seder in Argentina, a meal that must overcome a few mishaps. The plot is thin, but both the text and realistic full-page gouache paintings convey the warmth of the ceremonial spring meal, and of the new friendship. An author's note discusses nineteenth-century Russian Jewish immigration to Argentina.

Reviewer: Rita Soltan