Sixty years ago, on a small farm in Poland, a family starts to prepare for Passover in the middle of winter. As Mother, Father, and the children gather eggs, make wine, bake their own matzos, and unpack the special Passover dishes, they look forward to spring and one of the most important holidays of the year.

Using rich, deep-hued watercolors and spare, simple descriptions of the rituals of spring, Holocaust survivor Toby Knobel Fluek describes the Passover of her childhood. A family Seder, complete with the retelling of the Passover story, is the climax of this moving picture book, which re-creates a way of life now entirely vanished from Easter Europe.

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