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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 1989
Gr 3-6 "Midrash is to the Bible what imagination is to knowledge," as Elie Weisel has observed. Gellman's "stories about stories" are modern midrashim. That word might not immediately convey, however, the qualities of joy, spirituality, playfulness, and reflection that make these stories, like their predecessors in the tradition, both entertaining and illuminating. Gellman imagines his way right into the primeval histories of Ad...Log In or Sign Up to Read More