Sadie's Almost Marvelous Menorah

  • Interest Level: Preschool - Grade 1
  • Reading Level: Grade 1

When Sadie runs to show her mother the Hanukkah menorah she made in school, she trips, the menorah shatters, and she is devastated. But she finds that the shammash candle is unbroken, and a new family tradition is born.

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Interest Level Preschool - Grade 1
Reading Level Grade 1
Genre Picture Books, Social Studies
Copyright 2013
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Kar-Ben Publishing ®
Language English
Number of Pages 24
Publication Date 2014-01-01
Text Type Fiction
BISACS JUV017110, JUV033020
Dewey [E]
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 10.375 x 8.875
Features Original artwork and Reviewed

Reviews

Feathered Quill

“If you’re a fan of Jamie Korngold’s ‘Sadie’ series, you’re sure to love her almost disastrous Hanukkah celebration!” — Feathered Quill

The Horn Book Magazine

“The family from Sadie’s Sukkah Breakfast and Sadie and the Big Mountain again demonstrates how kindness and creativity can overcome small (but they seem huge) setbacks. Illustrations filled with Hanukkah cheer capture both the bustling and the quiet times of Sadie’s classroom; light-infused pictures of the family at home radiate warmth.” — The Horn Book

Kirkus Reviews

“The fragility of a child’s lovingly crafted clay menorah highlights the symbolism of the candle-lighting ritual.

At school, Sadie works hard to carefully sculpt and paint her clay menorah, featuring a raised, centered candle holder for the shamas (lighting candle) and flanked on either side by four lower candle holders. Proud of her blue-and-pink work of art, Sadie is eager to show it to her mother on the last day of the week. In her rush, she trips and drops the menorah, which breaks into ‘a million, zillion pieces.’ Through tears and disappointment, Sadie and her mom realize that while the shattered menorah is not repairable, the shamas remains perfectly intact and becomes ‘Sadie’s Super Shammash’ to light all the menorahs in the home each year. Korngold and Fortenberry’s Sadie, of Sadie’s Sukkah Breakfast (2011), is adaptable. She subtly demonstrates the importance of the ninth candle on a menorah, which is always set apart as the one to kindle the flame on each new candle each night. A combination of gouache and scratch art details the sequence of scenes and emotions, which range from happy anticipation to surprised dismay to satisfaction and pride.

A lovely, realistic examination of one specific aspect of the holiday, this will spark discussion as well as inspiration. (Picture book. 3-6)” —Kirkus Reviews