![]() ![]() ![]() Eric Kimmel's clean, clear writing makes The Magic Dreidels a wonderful selection for bedtime stories as the days get shorter. She brings subtle warmth into the winter season, even stripping a fantastical goblin of any eeriness that might be associated with it. Read 27 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Katya Krenina's illustrations evoke the liveliness of the holiday as well as the rustic settings of Jacob and his family. Kimmel - whose Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins is one of my favorite tales for this time of year - takes the folk-tale of The Tablecloth, the Donkey and the Stick, and reclothes it in Hanukkah garb in The Magic Dreidels. ![]() This re-telling of the old tale "The Tablecloth, the Donkey, and the Stick" in a Hanukkah setting shows that sometimes honest boys don't need magic dreidels to spin some magic of their own! Little does Jacob know that a good-willed, if mischievous, goblin lives at the bottom of the well, and that he will then receive a few special gifts. When he is sent to fetch water, he accidentally sends his dreidel into the well. ![]() While everyone else in the house prepares for Hanukkah, Jacob wants nothing but to play with his new brass dreidel. The Magic Dreidels: A Hanukkah Story by Kimmel, Eric A. The Magic Dreidels: A Hanukkah Story by Eric A. ![]()
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