The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story
by:
Lemony Snicket (author)
Lisa Brown (illustrator)
After being created, a latke jumps out of the frying pan, runs down the street screaming, and explains to those that it meets why it is an important part of the Hanukkah tradition.
After being created, a latke jumps out of the frying pan, runs down the street screaming, and explains to those that it meets why it is an important part of the Hanukkah tradition.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781932416879 (1932416870)
Publish date: 28-10-2007
Publisher: McSweeney's
Pages no: 43
Edition language: English
2014 December 11Natasha read it aloud, showing me the pictures and everything. It killed me when she did the screams***2013 December 17I love it and look forward to reading it to someone every christmas for the rest of my life.***2011 January 2Apparently I meant that in the Christmas-time sense of t...
In good Lemony Snicket tradition, this holiday story contains a few too many unfortunate events to read to my very young sons (3 and 9 mos.) yet--the hero, a latke, gets fried in hot oil, runs away, kidnapped by an axe-wielding woodsman, and finally eaten--but my wife and I found it delightfully cle...
"This story ends in someones mouth" This is a Christmas/Hanukah story about a Latke who learns the meaning of Christmas and finds out why he is boiled in a pan. A Latke is basically a potatoe hash brown eaten during Hanukah celebration. In case you have been hiding under a tree, until now.My wife re...
Ridiculous and absurd but actually quite funny. Not find of the illustration style but they're comical and fit the text. Plus, I learned something about Hannukah I didn't know. (I think maybe this degree of mine was written on toilet paper with disappearing ink.)
What's not to love...it's a book about potato pancakes. Cleverly snuck into the story is a moral about differences, and there being a place for everyone in this world. Kids (and adults) will eat this up !
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