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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2005
Gr 4-6 Whereas "Clouds of Glory" (1998) and "Angels Sweep the Desert Floor" (2002, both Clarion) retell biblical stories from Genesis and Exodus, this offering retells the legends of how angels work alongside God in both heaven and on Earth. Raziel, Azaz, Kasriel, Ya'asriel, Goralnik, Rafael, and Layla are all introduced along with the Wheel angels, the Angels of Forgetfulness, the Musician angels, Satan, and countless others, making it very difficult for readers to keep track of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2005
In Chaikin's third collection of Midrashrim (Clouds of Glory, rev. 7/98; Angels Sweep the Desert Floor, rev. 11/02), six stories "search and explain" God's closeness to humankind. In her introduction, Chaikin details the links between Heaven and Earth, "for [God] did not make the two worlds to be strangers to one another." Chaikin is both solemn and playful about holy matters. In her version of "Alphabet Angels," twenty-two giggli...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
