Long-listed for the UKLA 2023 Book Awards for Children's Fiction. A
beautifully illustrated and presented intergenerational graphic
novel that follows 11-year-old Benji and his elderly grandmother,
Bubbe Rosa, as they traverse Brooklyn and Manhattan, gathering the
ingredients for a Friday night dinner. Praise for Alte Zachen ''The
graphic novel format brilliantly allows us to see Bubbe in both her
present and her past, allowing the reader to better understand her
in all her cranky, opinionated grandeur, along with her sweet,
caring grandson, Benji. A wonderful intergenerational story about
the value of old things." -- Marissa Moss, Children's Book Author
& Illustrator ''To outsiders, Benji's Bubbe is just a crabby
old lady. To the boy, and eventually to us, she becomes a
vulnerable figure deserving of great tenderness. "Alte Zachen" is
less ambitious and searing than Art Spiegelman's "Maus," but like
that graphic novel it expands our understanding of the gulf that
can exist between generations, particularly those divided by
catastrophe''. -- Wall Street Journal ''Bubbe is a delight and the
love and patience Benji shows for her is so uplifting. This is
award-winning storytelling''. -- Books for Keeps ''A powerful and
affecting story from author and publisher Ziggy Hanaor, with
atmospheric illustrations from Benjamin Phillips''. -- Centre for
Literacy in Primary Education Bubbe's relationship with the city is
complex & nothing is quite as she remembered it and she feels
alienated and angry at the world around her. Benji, on the other
hand, looks at the world, and his grandmother, with clear-eyed
acceptance. As they wander the city, we catch glimpses of Bubbe's
childhood in Germany, her young adulthood in 1950s Brooklyn, and
her relationships; first with a baker called Gershon, and later
with successful Joe, Benji's grandfather. Gradually we piece
together snippets of Bubbe's life, gaining an insight to some of
the things that have formed her cantankerous personality. The
journey culminates on the Lower East Side in a moving reunion
between Rosa and Gershon, her first love. As the sun sets, Benji
and his Bubbe walk home over the Williamsburg Bridge to make
dinner. This is a powerful, affecting and deceptively simple story
of Jewish identity, of generational divides, of the surmountability
of difference and of a restless city and its inhabitants.
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