Re: A Hanukkah-Klezmer Story

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

At 09:06 PM 12/29/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>
>I found the best children's Hanukkah picture/story book in Chapters 
>yesterday!  Shira's Hanukkah Gift written by Joan Betty Stuchner with 
>beautiful illustrations by Richard Row.  According to the title page, it was 
>formerly known as "The Kugel Valley Klezmer Band".  It is published by 
>Scholastic Canada Ltd.
>
>The setting is Canada and the story relates how a 10 year old girl fills in 
>for the regular fiddle player in a Klezmer band at a Hanukkah party gig.  
>The illustrations are so well done that I was sure that I could hear the 
>klezmer music in my head as I read the story.
>
>This is a wonderful story for sharing the passion for klezmer music with 
>your kids.  I can see how this story could be even be used in a kids' 
>concert setting with narration and music - the way that Peter and the Wolf 
>incorporates instruments and a story.  As Shira practises on her toy fiddle 
>she would get better and better.....You just have to read the story.

I'm so glad to hear that the book is available in the states albeit under a 
different name. I wrote about it on the klezmershack a couple of years ago, but 
the six-year-old who loved the book never got around to writing about it!

http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/davidow/2000_weblogs.html#kugelvalley



Ari Davidow
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