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Summary: Our family's favorite December holiday book
Review: A few years ago I was lucky enough to overhear our school librarian recommend this book to another parent at the school book fair. There was only one copy left so I took it.Now, each December I get out our family's box of holiday books and this is the first one we read. My youngest child handed me a tissue before I started reading it last December! She knows how this book touches my heart and warms my soul. I have given this book to family and friends ... young and old. Great book to spread the message of what is really important -- at the holidays especially.
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Summary: Our family's favorite December holiday book
Review: A few years ago I was lucky enough to overhear our school librarian recommend this book to another parent at the school book fair. There was only one copy left so I took it. Now, each December I get out our family's box of holiday books and this is the first one we read. My youngest child handed me a tissue before I started reading it last December! She knows how this book touches my heart and warms my soul. I have given this book to family and friends ... young and old. Great book to spread the message of what is really important -- at the holidays especially.
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Summary: One of my all-time favorites!
Review: Drawing upon her own family's experience, Patricia Polacco shares a story of true holiday giving. Her Russian grandparents teach the meaning of friendship and miracles as they relate the story of Hanukkah and as they reach out to their Christian neighbors who are suffering from a deadly epidemic of scarlet fever. They adapt the symbols of their Jewish celebration to bring Christmas to those who are too ill to create their own festivities. Polacco's colorful illustrations capture the warmth and spirit of the characters and do much to enhance this wonderful story.
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Summary: One of my all-time favorites!
Review: Drawing upon her own family's experience, Patricia Polacco shares a story of true holiday giving. Her Russian grandparents teach the meaning of friendship and miracles as they relate the story of Hanukkah and as they reach out to their Christian neighbors who are suffering from a deadly epidemic of scarlet fever. They adapt the symbols of their Jewish celebration to bring Christmas to those who are too ill to create their own festivities. Polacco's colorful illustrations capture the warmth and spirit of the characters and do much to enhance this wonderful story.
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Summary: Awesome book!
Review: This is a great book! I will read it to my 4th and 5th grade class this year and discuss the love and open-mindedness of the Russian family. This book gives children and adults a genuine example of how they can honor others' beliefs and traditions.
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Summary: One of the Best Holiday Stories!!!
Review: This is a great holiday story. It teaches people a wonderful meaning of what the holidays are about! It is about a girl whose family is from Russia and they celebrate Hannukah. The little girl's best friend celebrates Christmas. One day she goes to her house and finds that the girl and her family has scarlet fever! A deadly disease. It is also very contagious. The jewish girl's friend is upset because they are to weak to set up a tree. Well, the jewish family is the only one not sick so they cut small trees, make food, and then take them to their neighbors! They soon get well and the christian family makes them a monorah. They celebrate the last day of Hannukah together. It is a wonderful sory of how two religions can get together and have a great holiday season!
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Summary: A "Heart Song" for the Holiday Season from Patricia Polacco
Review: Trish loves it when her family celebrates the eight days of Hanukkah. Her mother stays home from work, her Babushka makes delicious potato latkes, and her Grandpa carves beautiful animals out of wood as gifts. But while her family is preparing for Hanukkah, Trisha visits their closest neighbors. Instead of finding them busy decorating their house for Christmas, the neighbors are bedridden with the deadly scarlet fever that is sweeping the area. Trisha's family has been spared from the epidemic, but they cannot enjoy the Feast of Lights while their neighbors are unable to celebrate their holiday. Then Grandpa has an idea and "The Trees of the Dancing Goats" becomes "that Christmas...when Santa really did come." Patricia Polacco wrote and illustrated this wonderful holiday story as a "heart song," in memory of an incredible winter on her family's farm outside of Union City, Michigan. This makes "The Trees of the Dancing Goats" even more special, because this is one of those stories that when you finish reading it you wish it were true. Learning that it is indeed a true story makes it only that much better. The illustrations, done in marking pens and pencils, capture the spirit of the season and the love the author has poured into this remembrance of her mother and her loving grandparents. This tale of the best of the Old World and the New World is a holiday book to be shared.
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Summary: A "Heart Song" for the Holiday Season from Patricia Polacco
Review: Trish loves it when her family celebrates the eight days of Hanukkah. Her mother stays home from work, her Babushka makes delicious potato latkes, and her Grandpa carves beautiful animals out of wood as gifts. But while her family is preparing for Hanukkah, Trisha visits their closest neighbors. Instead of finding them busy decorating their house for Christmas, the neighbors are bedridden with the deadly scarlet fever that is sweeping the area. Trisha's family has been spared from the epidemic, but they cannot enjoy the Feast of Lights while their neighbors are unable to celebrate their holiday. Then Grandpa has an idea and "The Trees of the Dancing Goats" becomes "that Christmas...when Santa really did come." Patricia Polacco wrote and illustrated this wonderful holiday story as a "heart song," in memory of an incredible winter on her family's farm outside of Union City, Michigan. This makes "The Trees of the Dancing Goats" even more special, because this is one of those stories that when you finish reading it you wish it were true. Learning that it is indeed a true story makes it only that much better. The illustrations, done in marking pens and pencils, capture the spirit of the season and the love the author has poured into this remembrance of her mother and her loving grandparents. This tale of the best of the Old World and the New World is a holiday book to be shared.
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