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The Parakeet Named Dreidel

The Parakeet Named Dreidel

Isaac Bashevis SINGER | FICTION,  Oct 01, 2015

Friendly cartoon watercolor illustrations and the father's warm, understated narration make this a wonderful choice for a family lapsit and a read-aloud over the holiday season or anytime.—Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library
In this short story (from The Power of Light: Eight Stories for Hanukkah, rev. 2/81) repackaged as a picture book, a mysterious Yiddish-speaking parakeet flies to a Jewish family's window on Hanukkah and promptly earns the name Dreidel. Though the narrator is an adult—with an unusually mature voice for a picture book
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