Meet the Latkes

Title:

Meet the Latkes

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Summary:

Lucy Latke's family is just like yours or mine. Except that they're potato pancakes. And also, they are completely clueless. After lighting the menorah and gobbling the gelt, Grandpa Latke tells everyone the Hanukkah story, complete with mighty Mega Bees who use a giant dreidel to fight against the evil alien potatoes from Planet Chhh. It's up to the Latke family dog to set the record straight. (To start with, they were Maccabees, not Mega Bees...) But he'll have to get the rest of the Latkes to listen to him first! -- Amazon.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Genre:

Picture books.

Humorous fiction.

Subject Term:

Families -- Juvenile fiction.

Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. -- Juvenile fiction.

Potato pancakes -- Juvenile fiction.

Dogs -- Juvenile fiction.

Hanukkah -- Juvenile fiction.

Publisher:

Viking,

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Publication Date:

2018

ISBN:

9780451479129

Publication Information:

New York, New York : Viking, 2018.

Call Number:

P SILBERBERG

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Imagine James Marshall's The Stupids celebrating Hanukkah, and you'd get the Latke family!

Lucy Latke's family is just like yours or mine. Except that they're potato pancakes. And also, they are completely clueless. After lighting the menorah and gobbling the gelt, Grandpa Latke tells everyone the Hanukkah story, complete with mighty Mega Bees who use a giant dreidel to fight against the evil alien potatoes from Planet Chhh. It's up to the Latke family dog to set the record straight. (To start with, they were Maccabees, not Mega Bees ...) But he'll have to get the rest of the Latkes to listen to him first!

Author Notes

Alan Silberberg (www.silberbooks.com) is an award-winning author, cartoonist and children's TV creator who has worked with Nickelodeon and Disney. He's the author and illustrator of three previous middle grade novels including Milo: Sticky Notes & Brain Freeze , which won the Sid Fleishman Humor Award and is currently in development to become an animated TV series. Though he's been eating latkes for years, this is Alan's debut picture book.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The Latke family is celebrating the Festival of Lights. Yes, they're actual potato pancakes; no, they're not going to eat themselves (the menu calls for another traditional treat, jelly-filled donuts called sufganiyot). Grandpa Latke takes it upon himself to tell the story of "CHHA-nukah!" to Lucy Latke, but his narrative quickly goes off the rails: the heroes are yarmulke-wearing "mega-bees," not Maccabees; their enemy is "alien potatoes" instead of Antiochus; a dreidel is turned into a Trojan Horse; and the tongue twister "tattered tater tyrants" makes a totally gratuitous appearance. Thank goodness the family dog, Applesauce (also a latke), is on hand to set the story straight. Readers who like their humor broad and goofy will lap this up, and Silberberg (Pond Scum) makes it extra tasty with sprawling and genially messy cartooning that looks like it was created by someone hopped up on chocolate gelt. Ages 3-5. Agent: Jill Grinberg, Jill Grinberg Literary. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.