The Trees Of The Dancing Goats
Polacco has a warm, colorful illustrative style that has enriched her numerous other works such asBabushka Baba YagaandI Can Hear the Sun. Here she applies it to what at first seems the simple story of a Jewish girl, Trisha, and her Christian neighbors, whose bout with scarlet fever at Christmas threatens to ruin Trisha's Hanukkah. Trisha and her family respond with a loving gesture that is rewarded in kind.