Easter Eggs and Matzo Balls
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- $279.00
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- $279.00
Descripción editorial
To: The Easter Bunny
From: Michael
I’ve always celebrated Easter, but my new stepsister, Anna, celebrates Passover. I want her to have something special in the Golden Egg when you bring it. If I think of something, I’ll let you know.
While waiting for an answer, Michael annoys Anna by following her around hoping for inspiration. But Anna has her own problem: her Passover items are missing.
Each time she can’t find something, Michael has an “aha” moment and is certain he has discovered what to put in the egg . . . only to hear back from the Easter Bunny that the item won’t fit.
In the end, Michael does more than find something special to put inside the Golden Egg—he saves Anna’s favorite part of the Passover seder.
In this humorous and endearing picture book, blending both Easter and Passover, a young boy and his stepsister realize celebrating together (or hunting together for Easter Eggs and the Afikoman) makes the holidays even better.
Easter Eggs and Matzo Balls includes a glossary of Easter and Passover terms and concludes with recipes of Anna and Michael's favorite holiday foods ready for children to replicate in their own kitchens.
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In this holiday story featuring a white-presenting blended family, Michael, who celebrates Easter, wants Passover, which this year falls at the same time, to be extra special for new stepsister Anna. But Anna is preoccupied: she can't find her family's Passover belongings, there's no matzo in the house, and the stores are sold out. Cartooned images by Langdo show Michael dispatching a series of emails to the Easter Bunny, asking it to ensure that something special arrives for Anna via the golden egg prize of the Easter egg hunt. The story's threads don't quite come together—it's not clear why the Easter Bunny appears to have taken the family's Passover supplies, nor how the one tiny piece of matzo that's revealed inside the golden egg is going to solve the family's seder supply problem. But the step-siblings seem fully bonded—"Wherever the matzo is, we'll find it together," Emaus writes in Anna's voice—and that may be enough. Recipes and a glossary conclude. Ages 3–6.
