Overview
Rebecca's family is getting ready to celebrate the Jewish festival of Passover, and she is helping Granny Sarah make the food needed for the special meal called the Seder. The family will sit down on the first and second evening of the celebration and eat matzah for eight days. As Rebecca and her brother work, Granny Sarah tells them the story of Passover: how God sent the ten plagues to the Egyptians and how Moses led the freed Israelite slaves through the Red Sea and across the desert. Sensitive text and vivid artwork show the vitality and timelessness of this story.
A girl learns about the historical and religious significance of Passover traditions.
Synopsis
Rebecca's family is getting ready to celebrate the Jewish festival of Passover, and she is helping Granny Sarah make the food needed for the special meal called the Seder. The family will sit down on the first and second evening of the celebration and eat matzah for eight days. As Rebecca and her brother work, Granny Sarah tells them the story of Passover: how God sent the ten plagues to the Egyptians and how Moses led the freed Israelite slaves through the Red Sea and across the desert. Sensitive text and vivid artwork show the vitality and timelessness of this story.
Publishers Weekly
Additional Passover titles (see Spring Holiday Reviews, Feb. 9) include Rebecca's Passover by Ad le Geras, illus. by Sheila Moxley, which showcases the notable author's storytelling skill. Here she describes a seder spent with members of an affectionate extended family. Working in a contemporary style, Moxley takes Geras's work out of the traditional Old World context emphasized in, for example, her collection My Grandmother's Stories; the artist also weaves in sequences that tie the seder and its celebrants to the scenes in Egypt that the seder commemorates. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.