Red and Green and Blue and White
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
On a block dressed up in Red and Green
one house shone Blue and White.
It's a holiday season that both Isaac, whose family is Jewish, and Teresa, whose family is Christian, have looked forward to for months! They've been counting the days, playing in the snow, making cookies, drawing (Teresa) and writing poems (Isaac). They enjoy all the things they share, as well as the things that make them different.
But when Isaac's window is smashed in the middle of the night, it seems like maybe not everyone appreciates "difference."
Inspired by a true story, this is a tale of a community that banded together to spread light.
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Isaac and his best friend and neighbor Teresa, both of whom appear white, have a lot in common: "They both loved playing in the snow,/ counting down to the holidays,// and thought you couldn't have too many sprinkles on a cookie." But Isaac is a member of the town's Jewish minority—"On a block dressed up in Red and Green,/ one house shone Blue and White"—and his family's menorah window display becomes the target of a hate crime. Wind's lightly fictionalized version of the 1993 incident wherein a community stood up to bigotry, taping pictures of menorahs to their own windows in solidarity, is conveyed with lyrical simplicity. The visual treatment here is particularly striking—Caldecott Medalist Zelinsky's vibrant digital art has the bold, rough-hewn textures of scratch block, and dramatic compositions that recall sweeping cinematography emphasize fraught emotions in this moving historical tale that encourages taking a stand. Back matter features an author's note that provides additional historical context. Ages 4–7.
