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Reviewed on May 15, 2020 | Picture Books
PreS-Gr 2—A retelling of a Yiddish folktale about a man who complains to the rabbi that his house is too crowded. Here, the protagonist is a young boy and the shtetl setting is replaced by a vibrant, contemporary library and a spunky librarian. Stevie is eager to curl up with his new library book in a big chair, but as he begins to read he is distracted by the sounds of other patrons' pages turning, computer keys tapping, and the voice of a storyteller. When he complains to the librarian that "it's like a party in here,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

