The Story of Hanukkah
David A. Adler sStory of Hanukkahintroduces the basic rudiments of the Hanukkah legend to, say, kindergartners, with illustrations that remind me of my Hebrew school Hanukkah pageants. Bearded Jewish men with blue cloth thingies on their heads, Jewish women with the same, Greek soldiers with horsehair crests on their helmets: I ve worn those costumes in my life, or know someone who has. These figures sometimes walk and sometimes float through these pages with a Chagall-like indifference to the law of gravity. Look more closely, though, and you ll see that Jill Weber, the illustrator, has enlivened the kitsch with some nice detail. Her soldiers wear convincing-looking greaves on their legs. --The New York Times Book Review