Nina Jaffe, Author Scholastic $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-590-12054-8
An inspired storyteller and researcher, Jaffe (The Mysterious Visitor: Stories of the Prophet Elijah) delivers seven tales, each tied into the Jewish Sabbath but reflective of different cultures and times and of different moods. Jews from a range of
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Nina Jaffe, Author, Elivia Savadier, Illustrator, Elivia, Illustrator Scholastic $16.95 (72p) ISBN 978-0-590-44653-2
This outstanding collection from the author of In the Month of Kislev spans the Jewish holiday calendar from Rosh Hashanah to Passover. Drawn primarily from traditional sources, the entries offer a kaleidoscopic view of faith and ritual throughout...
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Nina Jaffe, Author, John Segal, Illustrator, Steve Zeitlin, With Henry Holt & Company $9.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5073-8
PW's starred review praised the ""craftily honed narratives"" and ""pithy prefatory comments"" in this collection of 18 Jewish tales that challenge readers to a test of wits. Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
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Nina Jaffe, Author, John Segal, Illustrator, Steve Zeitlin, With Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2594-1
With their craftily honed narratives and their pithy prefatory comments, Jaffe ( In the Month of Kislev ) and Zeitlin do ample justice to 18 gems of Jewish folklore. The heroes and heroines of these selections have only moments to frame solutions to
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Nina Jaffe, Author, Enrique O. Sanchez, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-80469-4
Make room on the folktale shelf for this arresting adaptation of a Taino myth from Puerto Rico. Jaffe (In the Month of Kislev; The Uninvited Guest) spins a colorful story about the coming of water to the desert lands that once made up the earth. And
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Nina Jaffe, Author, Louise August, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4384-6
Despite the subtitle, this is not strictly a Cinderella tale so much as a patchwork of two or three fairy tales, including Cinderella, brought to a Polish-Jewish setting. It begins as a variant on the tale in which a father asks each of his three...
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Nina Jaffe, Author, Elivia Savadier, Author, Elivia Savadier, Illustrator Scholastic $19.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-590-48422-0
Many people know the Jewish tradition of setting a place-replete with a special goblet of wine-at the Passover Seder table for the prophet Elijah. But this versatile messenger from heaven is a player in several other Jewish rituals and appears in...
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Nina Jaffe, Author, Wenhai Ma, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-85645-9
Goodness is rewarded and cruelty punished in this staple of Korean folklore, an archetypal tale of two brothers. When their father dies, elder brother Nolbu, greedy and mean-spirited, inherits the family property and banishes big-hearted younger...
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Nina Jaffe, Author, Wenhai Ma, Illustrator Puffin Books $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-055334-5
PW praised this ""eloquent and concise"" retelling of a classic tale, gracefully illustrated with ""atmospheric watercolors."" Ages 3-8. (July)
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