![]() ![]() They will know love and joy … and they will never be poor.” Because the family would always have each other … “Anyone who drinks from it has a blessing from God. ![]() ![]() Every week in celebrating Shabbat, Anna’s mother pulled out a remarkable wedding gift tea set: “The tea set is magic,” the giver wrote. The former begins with Polacco’s great-grandmother Anna’s life “long before she came to America,” and the latter continues with “When … Anna came to America.”Īs a little girl, Anna lived in a Jewish Russian village that was often at the mercy of cruel soldiers. If chronology is important, you might read Patricia Polacco‘s multi-generational family epic out of publication order – that is, Blessing Cup (out this year) first, and then Keeping Quilt (which debuted in 1988, and reappeared this year in an updated, 25th anniversary edition). Although published a quarter century apart, these are two books that tell a single tears-of-joy-inducing family story. ![]()
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