The parakeet named Dreidel
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer ; pictures by Suzanne Raphael Berkson
Contributors: Berkson, Suzanne Raphael, ill
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374300944
Subjects: Hanukkah; Parrots; Jews; Fiction
Description: When young David and Mama and Papa are celebrating Hanukkah one frosty winter evening in Brooklyn, Papa sees a parakeet sitting on the window ledge. He lets the parakeet in and everyone is delighted to find that it speaks Yiddish. They name it Dreidel and it becomes part of their family. Many years later, when David is in college, he is at a party one night and tells Dreidel's story--only to discover that Zelda, a young woman at the party, owned the bird herself as a child.
Notes: "Originally published as 'The Parakeet Named Dreidel' in The Power of Light by Isaac Bashevis Singer"--Copyright page.

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