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    Hanukkah in Alaska

    By Barbara Brown and Stacey Schuett

    3.5/5

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    An Alaska family celebrates Hanukkah with a stubborn moose in their backyard and the Northern Lights as the best-ever menorah.

    Hanukkah in Alaska is unlike anywhere else.

    Snow piles up over the windows. Daylight is only five hours long. And one girl finds a moose camped out in her backyard, right near her favorite blue swing. She tries everything to lure it away: apples, carrots, even cookies. But it just keeps eating more tree! It's not until the last night of Hanukkah that a familiar Jewish holiday tradition provides the perfect—and surprising—solution.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 22, 2013
    ISBN9781466845183
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    Hanukkah in Alaska
    Author

    Barbara Brown

    God has a plan for your life. Unfortunately, there’s no “yellow brick road” to follow. I’ve come to forks in the road, traffic circles, jug handles (if you live in NJ), driven down one way streets going the wrong way, broken down on the side of the road, ran out of gas and for days remained snowed in up to the windows. My education had nothing at all to do with my life’s various careers. In grammar school I was good at math and a great speller. Who knew in this 21st century it would be obsolete? Later on, Australians were cool, so I married one. We had kids and got divorced. He moved. I got the kids and furniture, a job, things big and small, earth shaking, mind boggling, clothing, feeding (them, their friends and pets), homework, shopping, laundry, cleaning, regular ER visits and uh, let’s see, anything else? Oh, yeah….EVERYTHING. So now I have married kids and several grandchildren. Some of them like me, some of them don’t. Hey, you can’t please everyone. A word to the wise…..don’t bother trying, it doesn’t make a difference. No really, it doesn’t. Of course, it goes without saying I love them all unconditionally. And they’re so considerate; they allow me to prove it constantly! There are stories all around us. Everyone is a story. Your past influences your future. You never know when you’re going to be writing about a character that was just like that someone you knew long ago that teased you, made you cry, you liked and then hated and blah, blah, blah, etc., etc., etc. It’s all in there somewhere. And when it starts to come out……Surprise, you’re an Author!!

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    • 3/5
      As a young Alaskan girl goes about her winter activities, from attending school mostly in the dark to making dreidels in the snow with her friends, she also makes every effort to drive the moose which has taken up residence in her yard, eating all of the bark off the trees, away from the tree holding her favorite blue swing. But nothing she offers as a tempting treat, from carrots to cookies, seems to interest the moose. Then, on the last night of Hanukkah, when her family is outside witnessing the beauty of the Northern Lights, a celestial occurrence that feels very significant to people observing the Festival of Lights, the girl comes up with the perfect solution: latkes!An engaging tale of a young Jewish girl in Alaska, one which highlights the realities of winter-time in the far north, Hanukkah in Alaska isn't really a story about the holiday as such, but rather a story set during the holiday, which incorporates some of its rituals and observances into the narrative. For children who do not live in Alaska, Barbara Brown's tale will provide them a window into life in that state, just as it will highlight the religious diversity to be found there. A brief afterword gives more information about the story of the revolt of the Maccabees and the miracle in the temple, which the holiday of Hanukkah commemorates. The artwork, created by Stacye Schuett in acrylic and gouache, is colorful and appealing, with a nice contrast provided between the cold, bluish scenes occurring outdoors, and the warm, earthy-toned scenes taking place indoors. Schuett also illustrated Michelle Edwards' Papa's Latkes, another Hanukkah picture-book I have enjoyed. Recommended to anyone looking for Hanukkah stories where the focus is less on explaining the holiday than on the lives of the children who celebrate it, as well as to anyone searching for books about Jewish children in geographically diverse locations.
    • 4/5
      It's not every kid who has a moose at her window watching her light the menorah.
    • 3/5
      Hanukkan in Alaska is about a young girl who is having a rough Hannukah. There's a moose trying to break her swing, and it's freezing cold. Things look up a bit when her dad takes her out in the snow to see the Northern Lights.I thought this book was a bit al over the place. It bounced between the moose, Hannukah, and the cold with little rhythm.
    • 3/5
      This story shows the importance of family during the holidays. The little girl had such a good Hanukkah because of the games she played with her parents as well as watching the aurora borealis with them. The author also showed aspects of Alaska. The little girl had a moose in her backyard because there are a lot of moose in Alaska. The story also showed traditions of Hanukkah. The family played dreidel and had latkes. The little girl even gave the moose in her backyard a latke to get him to go away.