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The Passover lamb

Summary: Miriam has especially looked forward to the Passover seder at her grandparents' home because it is her first year to ask the four questions, but the unexpected arrival of triplet lambs complicates her family's plans.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0375971068 (library)
  • ISBN: 9780375971068 (library)
  • ISBN: 0307931773 (trade)
  • ISBN: 9780307931771 (trade)
  • Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, c2013.

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General Note:
"Based on a true story"--Cover.
Subject: Farm life Fiction
Jews Fiction
Animals, Infancy Fiction
Sheep Fiction
Seder Fiction
Passover Fiction

Available copies

  • 0 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Covington Branch E MARSH L (Text) 33126019488786 JGeneral Holiday Fiction On holds shelf -

  • School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2013 January

    K-Gr 3—Doing farm chores on the morning of Passover, Miriam discovers that one of the sheep has had three babies. Snowball rejects the runt, and the child takes responsibility for bottle-feeding it every few hours. How can she take care of a lamb, though, and still attend the Seder at Grandma's? By putting him in a basket, naming him Moses, and taking him along, of course. This unusual Passover story is based on Marshall's own family history, as explained in an author's note. Basic information about Passover is included within the story and in the note. The emphasis is on the lamb's plight rather than on the holiday, and readers will be charmed by the gentle depiction of farm life, the baby animal, and the child's resourcefulness. Those who bring Passover knowledge to their reading will be amused that the siblings' names are Miriam and Aaron (the names of Moses's siblings in the Bible). Cheerful watercolors add to the story's sweetness.—Heidi Estrin, Congregation B'nai Israel, Boca Raton, FL

    [Page 82]. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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