BOOK PICKS.Byline: The Register-Guard "The Chanukah Guest" By Eric Kimmel; illustrated by Giora Carmi Holiday House, 1988 Recommended age group: 7 to adult Holiday stories abound during the winter season, and many of them involve guests coming to family get-togethers. In "The Chanukah Guest," a particularly unusual guest, Old Bear, is awakened a·wak·en tr. & intr.v. a·wak·ened, a·wak·en·ing, a·wak·ens To awake; waken. See Usage Note at wake1. [Middle English awakenen, from Old English from his deep winter sleep somewhat confused by delicious smells wafting into his cave. He follows his nose to Bubba bub·ba n. Slang 1. Chiefly Southern U.S. Brother. 2. A white working-class man of the southern United States, stereotypically regarded as uneducated and gregarious with his peers. Brayna's home, where Bubba is making her best potato latkes for a visit from the rabbi rabbi [Heb.,=my master; my teacher], the title of a Jewish spiritual leader. The role of the rabbi has undergone a number of transformations. In the Talmudic period, rabbis were primarily teachers and interpreters of the Torah. . Bubba may make the best latkes, but her hearing and eyesight eye·sight n. 1. The faculty of sight; vision. 2. Range of vision; view. have gotten so bad that she doesn't realize Old Bear is not the rabbi. What happens during their "visit" is both fun to watch, with beautifully detailed pictures, as well as to hear, with funny word play between Bubba and Old Bear. When the rabbi finally arrives and they all figure out what had happened, Bubba is glad she shared her latkes with such an appreciative guest. Her generosity and humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was represent the kind of holiday spirit that we all hope to experience during this time of the year. - Melinda Warburg, librarian, Roosevelt Middle School, Eugene |
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