
Alone Together on Dan Street
Erica Lyons(Author)
Apples and Honey Press
Published on 17. March 2022
Book
Hardback
32 pages
978-1-68115-596-8 (ISBN)
Description
A Tablet Magazine Best Jewish Children's Book for 2022!
National Jewish Book Award Finalist
A hopeful but not sugarcoated retelling of the first spring and Passover of the pandemic . . . A lovely reminder of how the pandemic that separated us also brought us together. --Rachel Fremmer, Tablet Magazine
A young girl practices the Four Questions on her apartment balcony in Jerusalem and finds a way to bring the neighbors together for Passover even during the separation of a pandemic.
National Jewish Book Award Finalist
A hopeful but not sugarcoated retelling of the first spring and Passover of the pandemic . . . A lovely reminder of how the pandemic that separated us also brought us together. --Rachel Fremmer, Tablet Magazine
A young girl practices the Four Questions on her apartment balcony in Jerusalem and finds a way to bring the neighbors together for Passover even during the separation of a pandemic.
Reviews / Votes
Breathtaking and powerful. Shows the universality of the quarantine experience. --Heidi Rabinowitz and Susan Kusel, The Book of Life PodcastA lovely story of how a little girl in Jerusalem turns
the challenge of Corona Virus into an opportunity for community and song. It
offers a wonderful way to reflect on how we can be our best when we think of
others and come together.
--Dr. Rona Milch Novick, Dean of the Azrieli School at Yeshiva University and author
of Mommy, Can You Stop the Rain?
We come back to the very recent past in Alone Together on Dan Street, in which Erica Lyons gives a hopeful but not
sugarcoated retelling of the first spring and Passover of the pandemic. While
people in New York City banged on pots with their windows open daily at 7 p.m.
and Italians sang out their windows, Israelis moved their Seders on to their
balconies so that anyone who lived alone could have a Seder surrounded by other
voices. Lyons captures the monotony and claustrophobia of those early days of
the pandemic perfectly, in recounting the story of Mira: "[n]ow the days were all
mixed up ... [a]nd seasons were only things that happened on the balcony. Every
picture [Mira] drew was of the same building across the street." She also
juxtaposes the fact that, while for people who lived by themselves, the
pandemic was especially isolating, for those who lived with families in small
apartments, it could, somewhat ironically, be hard to find a place to be alone.
A lovely reminder of how the pandemic that separated us also brought us
together.
--Rachel Fremmer, Tablet Magazine
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Behrman House Inc.,U.S.
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 4 years
Product notice
Picture book
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68115-596-8 (9781681155968)
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Schweitzer Classification