About this item
An irresistibly adorable mouse tries to find her Passover plate before sundown when the Seder begins in this colorful Jewish holiday story. An enchanting mouse scours her cozy, miniature home for her Passover Seder plate with no luck. Sundown is near and the Passover celebration will begin soon. Pippa Mouse must venture out and be brave to ask a cat, a snake, and an owl for help. To her surprise not only are the animals helpful in tracing her plate to the pond, they become her Passover Seder guests. A spread at the end of the book shows the Passover plate with its six essential symbolic items: zeroah (a roasted bone) , beitzah,(an egg) , maror and charoset (bitter herbs) , chazeret (mortar or paste) , and karpas (a spring vegetable) .
About the Author
Writer for children - reader forever ... that's Vivian Kirkfield in five words. Her bucket list contains many more than five words - but she's already checked off skydiving, parasailing, banana-boat riding, and visiting kid-lit friends all around the world. When she isn't looking for ways to fall from the sky or sink under the water, she can be found writing picture books in the quaint village of Amherst, NH where the old stone library is her favorite hangout and her young grandson is her favorite board game partner. A retired kindergarten teacher with a masters in Early Childhood Education, Vivian inspires budding writers during classroom visits and shares insights with aspiring authors at conferences and on her blog, Picture Books Help Kids Soar where she hosts the #50PreciousWords International Writing Contest and #50PreciousWordsforKids Challenge. She is the author of Pippa's Passover Plate (Holiday House) ; Four Otters Toboggan: An Animal Counting Book (Pomegranate) ; Sweet Dreams, Sarah (Creston Books) ; Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe (Little Bee Books) , and From Here to There: Inventions That Changed the Way the World Moves (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 19, 2021) . You can connect with her on her website, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Linkedin, or just about any place people with picture books are found
