The Matzo Ball Boy

Illustrated by Rosanne Litzinger
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$8.99 US
Penguin Young Readers | Puffin Books
100 per carton
On sale Feb 01, 2007 | 978-0-14-240769-1
Age 3-7 years
Sales rights: World
On the morning of the Passover seder, a lonely bubbe decides to make a matzo ball boy to keep her company. Soon delicious smells waft from the bubbling pot, and when she lifts the lid to see if the matzo ball boy is done, out he jumps. “Oy!” she cries. “And where do you think you’re going?” “I’m off to see the world, bubbe,” he replies. Before long, a yenta and her children, a rabbi, and a fox are all on a mad chase to catch the matzo ball boy!
A delightful fractured version of The Gingerbread Boy. . .(Booklist)

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On the morning of the Passover seder, a lonely bubbe decides to make a matzo ball boy to keep her company. Soon delicious smells waft from the bubbling pot, and when she lifts the lid to see if the matzo ball boy is done, out he jumps. “Oy!” she cries. “And where do you think you’re going?” “I’m off to see the world, bubbe,” he replies. Before long, a yenta and her children, a rabbi, and a fox are all on a mad chase to catch the matzo ball boy!

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A delightful fractured version of The Gingerbread Boy. . .(Booklist)