One Little Goat
A Passover Catastrophe
WW Norton · Print & ebook · February 25, 2025
A family sits at the Passover seder table, but cannot find their afikoman—the hidden matzah required to end the meal—and as a result, they are trapped at a seder that cannot end.
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- Who it’s for
- A wisecracking goat brings comic mischief to a Passover tale layered with centuries of seders.
- Themes
- Passover traditions, Family adventure, Asking questions
- Genres
- Passover Stories, Jewish Religious Stories, Funny Stories
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A family sits at the Passover seder table, but cannot find their afikoman—the hidden matzah required to end the meal—and as a result, they are trapped at a seder that cannot end. Six months in, a wisecracking talking goat shows up at their door with bad news: Thousands of years of previous seders have accumulated underneath their seder, and their afikoman is stuck in one of them.
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Now the family’s “wise child” must travel down with the goat through centuries of previous Passovers to find it—and to discover the questions he needs to start asking.
Seder Time Warp
A wisecracking goat brings comic mischief to a Passover tale layered with centuries of seders.
Come here for
- Passover tradition with a mischievous, storybook twist
- A talking goat with plenty of wisecracks
Expect
- A journey through centuries of previous seders
- Questions that matter as much as answers
Where it sits
| Jewish Religious Stories | 80% |
|---|---|
| Passover Stories | 65% |
| Funny Stories | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Comics & Graphic Nonfiction
- Passover Stories
- Jewish Religious Stories
- Authors
- Dara Horn
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- February 25, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Passover traditions · Family adventure · Asking questions
- Reading lane
- Comics & Graphic Nonfiction