Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Book Review | Feivel’s Flying Horses
by Heidi Smith Hyde
Score: 4
Illustrated by Johanna van der Sterre
© 2010, Kar-Ben Publishing.
The author who brought us the delights of Klezmer music in Mendel’s Accordion, now shares a lesser known path from the Jewish immigrant experience, the wooden carousel horse carvers of the 19th century. This beautifully told tale describes the life of Feivel who leaves his wife and [...]
Book Review | Resistance Book 1
by Carla Jablonski
Score: 3
Art by Leland Purvis
Color by Hilary Sycamore
© 2010, :01/ First Second.
In this exciting and emotionally powerful graphic novel set in France during World War II, three young people get involved in the French Resistance. Paul and his sister, Marie, must shepherd their Jewish friend, Henri, to a safe house in Paris to meet his parents [...]
Book Review | Extraordinary
by Nancy Werlin
Score: 3.5
© 2010, Dial.
Imagine that in the 18th century Mayer Rothschild, founder of the famous Jewish banking family, found himself lost in the forest and stumbled upon a portal into the Fairie Kingdom. Fascinated by the Fairie society and enamored by their culture, he fell in love with and had an affair with the Fairie [...]
Book Review | Engineer Ari and the Sukkah Express
by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Score: 3
Illustrated by Shahar Kober
© 2010, Kar-Ben Publishing.
In this companion volume to Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride (2008), Engineer Ari laments the fact that friends he has made on his train rides between Jaffa and Jerusalem cannot join him in his sukkah at home. His clever friends in Jaffa, however, want Ari to be [...]
