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Illustrated by Avi Katz
Originally published with Marshall Cavendish, 2007, now published by Two Lions
ISBN: 978-0-7614-5355-0 [ Buy this Book ]
Reading Level: 5-8 y/o
The Knoodle family is about to celebrate Hanukkah. They discuss what the rabbi has told them: "It is hard to give the perfect gift, one that will be treasured forever." What did the rabbi mean?
Thinking they're to give one another a gift they'd really love to have themselves, they pick names from a hat.
Bubby Sadie gives Little Yekl a pickle barrel. Mama Pearl gives Papa Jack a straw hat with yellow daisies—something she has wanted her whole life! And so it goes. No one is happy ... until the rabbi arrives and, with Little Yekl's help, straightens things out. Then they all celebrate "the best Hanukkah ever!"
"I have long been a lover of stories about the town of fools called Chelm, and the books about the Stupids by Harry Allard," says Barbara. "So it was probably inevitable that odd characters like the Knoodle family would pop into my head and start to do outrageous things that demanded my putting them into a story."