Book of the Week #49

Let's Steal the Moon: Jewish Tales, Ancient and Recent. Retold by Blanche Luria Serwer; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. (Little, Brown, and Company, 1970)

I chose this book in honor of Hanhkkah, which began this week. Trina Schart Hyman, who lived in New Hampshire from 1968 until her death, illustrated this collection of folk tales based on actual people -- her friends, family and neighbors. This is the first book she illustrated where the pictures were not entirely from her imagination.