Meet the Latkes
Hardcover – Picture Book, October 16, 2018
Penguin Young Readers Group · Hardcover · October 16, 2018
Imagine James Marshall's The Stupids celebrating Hanukkah, and you'd get the Latke family!
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- Who it’s for
- A goofy Hanukkah read turns a family’s garbled retelling into affectionate holiday comedy.
- Themes
- Hanukkah, Family, Listening
- Genres
- Hanukkah Stories, Funny Stories, Jewish Religious Stories
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Imagine James Marshall's The Stupids celebrating Hanukkah, and you'd get the Latke family! Lucy Latke's family is just like yours or mine. Except that they're potato pancakes. And also, they are completely clueless. After lighting the menorah and gobbling the gelt, Grandpa Latke tells everyone the Hanukkah story, complete with mighty Mega Bees who use a giant dreidel to fight against the evil alien potatoes from Planet Chhh.
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It's up to the Latke family dog to set the record straight. (To start with, they were Maccabees, not Mega Bees...) But he'll have to get the rest of the Latkes to listen to him first!
Hanukkah, Slightly Mixed Up
A goofy Hanukkah read turns a family’s garbled retelling into affectionate holiday comedy.
Come here for
- Potato-pancake relatives with wonderfully misplaced confidence
- Hanukkah humor built around a very confused version of the story
Expect
- A playful family read with a dog trying to get a word in
- Mighty Mega Bees, giant dreidels, and cheerful confusion
Where it sits
| Hanukkah Stories | 94% |
|---|---|
| Jewish Religious Stories | 68% |
| Funny Stories | 46% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Family Stories
- Hanukkah Stories
- Jewish Religious Stories
- Authors
- Alan Silberberg
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- October 16, 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Hanukkah · Family · Listening
- Reading lane
- Family Stories