A Mountain of Blintzes

by Barbara Diamond Goldin, Anik McGrory (Illustrator)

Overview

Join a big-hearted family as they prepare for Shavuot, the Jewish holiday celebrating the day Moses received the Torah, and discover—as the family does in a roundabout way that’s sure to spark giggles—the true meaning of cooperation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761457909
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	01/05/2012
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	AD560L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Author Barbara Diamond Goldin has written many distinguished books on Jewish themes, including The World’s Birthday: A Rosh Hashana Story, A Mountain of Blintzes, and The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion. In 1997, she received the Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries. A former preschool teacher, language arts teacher, and writing instructor, she currently works as a librarian and enjoys conducting writing workshops. She lives in western Massachusetts.

Illustrator Anik McGrory studied illustration at Rhode Island School of Design. She loves to travel and live in different parts of the world with her husband, Glenn, her little boy, Noel, her baby daughter, Solenn, and her dogs, Moxie and Zephyr. Right now she’s living in Tarrytown, NY.

Editorial Reviews

PreS-Gr 2-A delightful and satisfying tale celebrating the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. According to tradition, Jews are supposed to eat dairy foods to commemorate the day that Moses received the Torah on Mount Sinai, and hardworking Sarah would love to make a mountain of cheese blintzes for her husband and five children. However, with such a large family to feed, she cannot afford to buy all the ingredients, until she comes up with an ingenious plan. For the two weeks preceding the holiday, she and her husband will each work a little extra, every day putting their additional earnings into a special coin box. With both of them saving a little each day, surely they will have enough by Shavuot. Of course, neither Sarah nor Max part with the extra coins, each rationalizing that the other will do so. Ultimately, it is their resourceful children who provide the ingredients for the celebratory mountain of blintzes. Loosely based on a traditional Chelm tale, this story is set in the Catskills in the late 1920s, providing a charming small-town locale for the sunny watercolor illustrations. Utilizing a bright, friendly palette and endearing pink-cheeked characters, the illustrations tell an amusing story within a story, as the children find their own ways to contribute to the Shavuot table. Background notes and recipe are included.-Teri Markson, Stephen S. Wise Temple Elementary School, Los Angeles Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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