Hanukkah Upside Down
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- £4.49
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- £4.49
Publisher Description
In this delightfully upside-down picture book holiday story, cousins from opposite sides of the globe debate who can celebrate the best Hanukkah. Eight chances to prove it—may the best cousin win!
“You’ll have Hanukkah in summer? Talk about backwards.”
“Your Hanukkah’s in winter? You’re missing out.”
From their homes in New York and New Zealand, cousins Noah and Nora decide to have a competition. Winter versus summer: Who can have the world’s best Hanukkah? But as the eight nights of Hanukkah go on, the contest proves tougher than they imagined. Even as each cousin celebrates the holiday with their own unique traditions, they realize they have more in common than they thought.
A warm, witty holiday story from acclaimed award-winning creators Elissa Brent Weissman and Omer Hoffmann, Hanukkah Upside Down shows that while there are countless ways to celebrate Hanukkah, family is what matters most.
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Noah and his family live in New York City; his cousin Nora and her family live in Aotearoa, New Zealand. In frequent phone calls, the two pale-skinned kids compare seasonal differences between their respective hemispheres; as they do, they love arguing about "which one of them was upside down," Weissman writes. Hanukkah ups the ante on their friendly rivalry: is the holiday better in the winter or the summer? As they engage in activities (hot chocolate and snowballs vs. hot chips and cannonballs) and post photos to a shared album, Hoffman's jaunty, editorial-style cartoons show two kids who brim with individual confidence and who come to realize, through the nightly Hanukkah rituals, how much they share. This includes gratitude for "great miracles, then and now and all around," and a faith and traditions that transcend time zones and geography, making the world feel "right side up" no matter where they stand. Ages 4–8.
