One Little Goat bookcover

One Little Goat

A Passover Catastrophe

Dara Horn 

(Author)

Theo Ellsworth 

(Illustrator)

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calendar iconFebruary 25, 2025

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Description

A family sits at the Passover seder table, but cannot find their afikoman--the hidden matzah required to end the meal--and as a result, they are trapped at a seder that cannot end. Six months in, a wisecracking talking goat shows up at their door with bad news: Thousands of years of previous seders have accumulated underneath their seder, and their afikoman is stuck in one of them. Now the family's "wise child" must travel down with the goat through centuries of previous Passovers to find it--and to discover the questions he needs to start asking.

Product Details

PublisherNorton Young Readers
Publish DateFebruary 25, 2025
Pages152
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9781324082132
Dimensions9.8 X 6.8 X 0.6 inches | 1.1 pounds
BISAC Categories: Kids, Kids, Kids, Kids

About the Author

Dara Horn is the winner of three National Jewish Book Awards and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. She lives in New Jersey.
Theo Ellsworth is an artist and comics creator. He lives with his family in Missoula, Montana.

Reviews

Inventive, wild and deeply rooted in the Jewish experience, history and mythology... A deeply timely lesson about Jewish history and resilience, and about just how special and magical Jewish tradition can be.-- "Kveller"
What happens when you put together an endless Seder, a talking (scape) goat, and one not-so-wise teen boy? A trip through 3000 years of Seders and a new appreciation of holiday and family... This Passover story is written with nimble tongue-in-cheek humor. Readers won't want it to end.-- "School Library Journal (starred review)"
Irreverent and moving... Intricate lined textures and wide-eyed characters evoke Mark Alan Stamaty and Edvard Munch, conveying cosmic wonder and comedic anxiety... The narrator comes to see his family's seder, however messy and querulous, as one link in an unbroken chain of survival, celebration, and identity.-- "Publishers Weekly"
A wild ride.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
At long last, here is the time-traveling goat-centric Passover adventure my people have been awaiting for thousands of years.-- "Lemony Snicket"

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