Night Lights: A Sukkot Story

by Behrman House, Giora Carmi (Illustrator)

Overview

On a dark night full of many mysterious sounds Daniel and his older sister Naomi set out to sleep in their family sukkah. Because there is no outlet to plug in a night light Daniel and Naomi come to see the stars above as the same night lights the ancient Israelites used on their journey in the desert.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807408032
Publisher:	Behrman House, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/30/1999
Pages:	1
Product dimensions:	8.38(w) x 10.38(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

Editorial Reviews

Barbara Diamond Goldin's 1995 picture book Night Lights: A Sukkot Story is being reissued, with new illustrations by Laura Sucher. Goldin smoothly blends her contemporary story, about a boy's fears of sleeping under the open roof of his family sukkah, with an explanation of the festival of Sukkot (which this year begins on September 20). An endnote elaborates on the meaning of Sukkot, which commemorates the wandering of the Jews in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt. Where Louise August's pictures for the original edition were just the right side of scary, Sucher's limpid, sketchy watercolors are persistently friendly: as biblical Israelites wander in the desert, a moon on the horizon smiles. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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