Afikoman, Where’d You Go?

At a large seder attended by people of varying abilities, ages, and skin tones, six kids and a dog are dispatched to look for the afikomen—deemed “a silly, sneaky guy” by the participant-narrator, and depicted by Kelner with simple but mischievous facial features and stick arms and legs. Pencil, ink, and digital art, lavish with domestic details, shows the seekers moving through the house and backyard, leaving no cushion unturned, no drawer unopened, and, in the dog’s case, no roll of toilet paper unrolled. “We investigate my bedroom/ and inspect my soccer gear,” Gardyn Levington writes in rhyming lines. “Then we rummage through the laundry./ (We might be here till next year!)” As the characters wonder repeatedly, “Afikoman? Afikoman? Afikoman? WHERE’D YOU GO?” readers can hunt, too: the elusive entity turns up in every picture, peering from a different hiding place, in this lively tale of seek-and-find. Includes a glossary. Ages 4–8. (Feb.)