Standby Tire

Author: Ori Sherman
Painting: Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Publication Date: January 1994
ISBN ISBN: 0010552693
ISBN-13 ISBN: 9780010552690

Contact with the Jewish culture, from the Los Angeles Jewish city-goers began. Jewish style, I do not know how to describe, but from a number of picture books but this one will be able to see the “four” must be Jewish works. This is my favorite one is full of exotic picture book, exquisite images China and the United States, gives a ceramic texture.

This is a strong religious color book about the annual dinner of the Jewish Passover (Passover Seder). Family reunion started eating, always the youngest of four children sing traditional question: Why our other dinner or eat bread or eat unleavened bread (Matzoh), but this night is eating unleavened bread? Why other dinner we eat all kinds of vegetables, and this night only hardships vegetables? Why do we eat dinner other vegetables do not become anything, and this evening have to eat vegetables James twice brine? Why do we have other or riding a dinner or sitting eat ramps, which are inclined night sitting eat? The answer to in the book, you not only can understand why the Jewish Passover dinner with the usual dinner different, and can understand a Passover dinner, and eat dishes in the order.

I am most fascinated by the book illustrations, set in the gorgeous and elegant one, and even details are incomparably gorgeous. The animals are wearing national costumes, and more vivid image. Each page is a picture can be, can be reversed, is a look at the text in English, and the other way around, you can appreciate the beautiful Hebrew calligraphy. Many paintings or even four directions can see, this book became a family Passover books, on the dinner table among four weeks of the people can read.

“Four issues” Let me ideal, and would like to strongly recommend to the understanding of Jewish culture of the Hebrew people. It should be said that this book is a certain depth, it can be said that all ages, every age people can be to find what you want to see, it is the rare picture books.