Passover Scavenger Hunt
Rachel’s uncle is terrible at hiding the afikomen. It’s always too easy to find! So this year, Rachel decides to take over. She finds the perfect hiding spot and creates a series of clues for her cousins to follow. Can you guess where the hunt will lead them?
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Author: Shanna Silva
Shanna Silver is an author, freelance writer, and producer. She is a graduate of New York University with a BA in Psychology and is a contributor to the Jewish parenting blog Kveller. She is also a Broadway producer with two Tony® nominations for The Visit (2015) and Leap of Faith (2012). This is her first children's book. She lives in Bellmore, New York.
Illustrator: Miki Sakamoto
Miki Sakamoto studied fine arts and illustration at California State University in Long Beach. She is the illustrator of several picture books for children. She and her husband Kevin and energetic four-legged fur ball Bella live in California.
Reviews
Jewish Journal
“Great Uncle Harry is terrible at hiding the afikomen. All the kids anticipate his usual hiding places, and so the search isn’t very fun. But young Rachel hatches a clever plan and offers him the option to let her hide the matzo this year. She then creates a family scavenger hunt containing a variety of rhyming clues. With each solved riddle, the other children get a part of a puzzle that, when pieced together, contains the biggest clue about where the afikomen is hidden. Information regarding the symbols on the seder plate is included within the clues, and even Uncle Harry is in on the merriment by the end. A fun game that could become a future family tradition.”—Jewish Journal
Publishers Weekly
“Silva makes her children’s book debut with the warmhearted story of a family’s Passover seder, during which one of the young cousins, Rachel, gets fed up with how bad her Great-Uncle Harry is at hiding the afikomen. Taking the initiative, Rachel organizes a scavenger hunt for her cousins, featuring rhyming clues built around the ingredients on a seder plate (‘The shankbone reminds us/ of when the Jews fled./ Find Clue Number Four/ Where Frank rests his head’). Sakamoto’s (Let’s Build) genial cartoons send Rachel and her cousins all over Great-Uncle Harry’s house, quietly emphasizing the closeness among the older and younger members of the family. It’s a no-stress, no-conflict portrait of a Passover celebration that emphasizes ingenuity and the creation of new traditions to accompany the old.”—Publishers Weekly