The Matzah That Papa Brought Home

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The Matzah That Papa Brought Home
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Author Fran Manushkin
Illustrator Ned Bittinger
Published1995
Publisher Scholastic Incorporated
Awards

Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable book (1995) ALA Notable Children's Books (1996)

The Matzah That Papa Brought Home is a 1995 fictional children's picture book by Fran Manushkin and illustrated by Ned Bittinger. It was originally published 1995, by Scholastic. [1] It has been awarded Notable Children's Books by the American Library Association and Notable Book for Younger Readers from the Sydney Taylor Book Award. [2] [3]

The story is written like a cumulative rhyme which tells the story of a family's celebration of the Passover Seder. [2] [4]

Reception

A starred review in Publishers Weekly compliments the book's "cumulative text" and "easy and unforced" rhymes and describes Bittinger's character studies as "gems". [5] The School Library Journal described the text as "great fun" and the illustrations as "stellar". A review from Booklist calls Bittinger's illustrations "double-page-spread oil paintings that glow as brightly as the candles on the seder table", [1] while The Horn Book Magazine called the atmosphere of the book "festive and ritualistic". [6]

In 1995 the Sydney Taylor Book Award awarded the book with their Notable Young Readers award. [3] The American Library Association gave it the Notable Children's Books award in 1996. [2] It was also an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. [7]

It sold more than 50,000 copies. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Matzah That Papa Brought Home, by Fran Manushkin | Booklist Online" – via www.booklistonline.com.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Matzah That Papa Brought Home | Awards & Grants". www.ala.org. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  3. 1 2 https://web.archive.org/web/20230306182249/https://jewishlibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023stbaallawardwinnersever.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-03-06. Retrieved 2023-10-25.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ "LC Catalog - No Connections Available". catalog.loc.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  5. ↑ "The Matzah That Papa Brought Home by Fran Manushkin". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  6. ↑ Manushkin, Fran (1995). The Matzah That Papa Brought Home. Scholastic Incorporated. ISBN   978-0-590-47146-6.
  7. 1 2 Manushkin, Fran (1995). The Matzah that Papa Brought Home. Scholastic Incorporated. ISBN   978-0-590-47146-6.
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