Friday, November 21, 2008

It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish folktale retold and with pictures by Margot Zemach


Feeling like you live in a house that is too small? Too many people in a tight space? Life too stressful? Reminiscent of Meshka the Kvetch, this Yiddish tale offers a perspective we can use. A father with these problems runs in desperation to the Rabbi, who tells him to bring some animals into the house. Discover how the resulting chaos actually helps this stressed out father!

(New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1976)

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