A Snowy Hanukkah for Luz

“A Hanukkah story as lively and warmhearted as the extended family circle it portrays.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review“Behar’s storytelling cadence and Priceman’s painterly gouache art are comfortable, thought-provoking, and dynamic, as befitting a Hanukkah celebration.” — The Horn Book“The conversational dialogue between Abuelita and Luz makes for a prime readalong opportunity for an adult and child.” — BCCB

Ruth Behar is the Newbery Honor Award-winning and Pura Belpré Award-winning author of Lucky Broken Girl, Letters from Cuba, and Across So Many Seas. Born in Havana, Cuba, she grew up in New York and has lived in Spain and Mexico. Her work also includes the Sephardic picture book, Tía Fortuna’s New Home, poetry, memoir, and the acclaimed travel books, An Island Called Home and Traveling Heavy, as well as the joyous picture book, Pepita Meets Bebita, co-authored with her son, Gabriel Frye-Behar. She was the first Latina to win a MacArthur “Genius” Grant. Other honors include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and being named a “Great Immigrant” by the Carnegie Corporation. An anthropology professor at the University of Michigan, she lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Marjorie Priceman is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including the bestselling How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, which was turned into a musical. She has received two Caldecott Honors—for Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride and for Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss. She lives in Pennsylvania.

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