Whatever holiday you celebrate– and even if you don’t celebrate anything at all — make time for this incredible Hanukkah story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It is beautiful. (And so is this Sendak illustration.)

You can read the first few pages of it on Google books:
But you really need to read the whole thing to appreciate it.
This story could easily become a favorite read-aloud family tradition for you.
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