Hanukkah Moon
By Deborah da Costa and Gosia Mosz
3.5/5
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When Isobel is invited to Aunt Luisa’s for Hanukkah, she’s not sure what to expect. Aunt Luisa has recently arrived from Mexico. “At Aunt Luisa’s you’ll get to celebrate the Hanukkah Moon,” Isobel's father promises. Isobel’s days at Aunt Luisa’s are filled with fun and surprises – a new camera, a dreidel piñata filled with sweets, and a mysterious late night visit to welcome the luna nueva, the new moon that appears on Hanukkah. An unusual Hanukkah story with a multi-cultural focus, this title celebrates a little-known custom of the Latin-Jewish community.
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Reviews for Hanukkah Moon
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Hanukkah Moon is a quite well-written book with beautiful illustrations. It also shows some cultural diversity. But I was hoping for *Jewish* cultural diversity too when I ordered this book. Instead, where Hanukkah Moon could quite naturally have given the reader some insight into Sephardi Judaism, it comes through as a Yiddish-Ashkenazi story with dreidelech, latkes, yarmulkes on a bit of generic Spanish backdrop. What a great chance lost....
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Isobel's Hanukkah visit to her Aunt Luisa, newly arrived from Mexico, provides both a heart-warming family reunion, and an educational foray into holiday traditions previously unknown to the young American girl, in this lovely picture-book from Deborah Da Costa and Gosia Mosz. With a homemade hanukkiah (the Hanukkah menorah) inspired by Noah's Ark, greetings and songs in Spanish - Feliz Januca, rather than "Happy Hanukkah," Trompo, trompo, trompo, lo hice de barro, rather than "Dreidel, dreidel, driedel. I made it out of clay" - a driedel-shaped pinata to break, and (most of all) a party to celebrate Hanukkah Rosh Chodesh - the Hanukkah new moon - Isobel finds that Aunt Luisa doesn't celebrate the Festival of Lights like anyone else she knows, and that this is a wonderful thing!I enjoyed Hanukkah Moon a great deal, finding it both an engaging family story, in which a girl and her aunt become better friends, and an educational exploration of holiday traditions with which I was unfamiliar. Like Isobel, I had never heard of Rosh Chodesh before, or the tradition that each new moon is a woman's holiday, to honor the women who refused to contribute their gold, when the (male) Israelites were building a golden calf to worship. The illustrations, done by Polish artist Gosia Mosz - who, sadly, does not appear to have any other titles available in English - are simply beautiful, with an appealing color palette (lots of purples and yellows) and a distinctive, stylized sensibility that is very expressive. I liked the faces here (and Aunt Luisa's cat, Paco!), and I liked the composition of each two-page spread. All in all, this is a wonderful book, one with great narrative and illustrative appeal, and one which I recommend to any young reader looking for quality Hanukkah titles.