Oh when the dreydls/Come marching in . . . .

[ellenkushner]

My cousin Els, Librarienne Extraordinaire, and a discriminating connoiseuse of children's books from Day One, has posted her take on The Golden Dreydl (cross-posted at Librarian Mom), along with a couple of other books on which I wholeheartedly share her opinion (and so, I guess, does Delia, who has given me both of them for Chanukah over the years!).

I'm thrilled to be up on her excellent cool blog - but I really treasure the letter she wrote me about how her daughter loves & riffs on the jokes I put in the book, which I got when I was about her age from my Uncle Ron, Els' own dad. After all, passing on family traditions is what Chanukah's all about . . . .

4 candles tonight, folks. And a friend is coming in from Boston to go to the opera with Delia tomorrow night (they're completing the Romeo & Juliet Trifecta - we saw the play & the ballet this summer - but I draw the line at Gounod! Besides, um, the Met was sold out) - I wonder if we can have dinner somewhere they serve latkes?

Comments

[squidflakes.livejournal.com]

heeeey, that reminds me, I need to break out the ole dreydl and give it a few rounds.

Though, I gotta say. In icon size, the artwork for The Golden Dreydl looks a heck of a lot like a cuttlefish over a dark substrate. So... this makes me want to photoshop it up and call it The Golden Cuttl

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Do it!!!

[squidflakes.livejournal.com]

Oh, well hey, if you're all for it :D

Can you post a full size version?

How's this?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Re: How's this?

[squidflakes.livejournal.com]

Bootyfull!