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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2014 | Preschool to Grade 4
PreS-Gr 3—This charming story is a celebration of multicultural America and friendship. Every Friday afternoon, following her grandmother's weekly tradition, Goldie Simcha (simcha means celebration)—now a young woman living on her own—combines vegetables, dried beans, and barley in a large pot of broth that sits simmering on the stove through Friday night and Saturday until the delicious smell tells her and the four families who live on the floors beneath her that the cholent is ready to eat. Then all the neighbors ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2014
Every Saturday the delicious smell of cooking tomatoes, barley, potatoes, and beans wafts through a city apartment building as Goldie Simcha in 5-A prepares her famous cholent (stew) to share with her neighbors on the Jewish Sabbath: "For me, the taste of cholent is…Shabbat." One day Goldie is too sick to make the cholent, so her good neighbors -- mensches all -- pitch in to create their own (albeit somewhat stereotypical) multicultural feast: pot...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2014
Every Saturday Goldie Simcha prepares <i>cholent</i> (stew) to share with her neighbors on the Sabbath. When Goldie is sick, her neighbors crea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on November 1, 2014
An inviting story that showcases a Jewish custom as well as the vibrancy of urban life. Presents Shabbat traditions and a contemporary main character who observes them in a slightly different way than...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
