The Tie Man's Miracle: A Chanukah Story |
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Steven Schnur
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Pages: (Library Binding)
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
ISBN: 0688134645
Pub: William Morrow & Co Library
Pub date: 1995-10
Reader Reviews:
A holocaust Chanukah story helps 7-year-old Seth grow wiser. (0/0 people found this helpful)
What a wonderful book this is! Seven-year-old Seth is waiting impatiently for his father to get home on the last night of Chanukah when the Tie Man shows up at the front door. As the elderly door-to-door necktie vendor unties the cardboard box containng his wares, Seth fears he will delay the family's celebration. He asks the Tie Man "Isn't your family waiting for you?" just to hurry him out the door. But when the sight of Seth's baby sister Hannah leads the old man to join the famiy in the menorah lighting, Seth begins to wonder about that question in earnest. The Tie Man responds to his innocent, direct questions with a sad story about the loss of his wife and five children in a "terrible war,"; and with a happy story about wishing on Chanukah candles in the village of his youth. After the Tie Man leaves, Seth wishes with all his heart on the Chanukah candles for the Tie Man to get his family back.
At the conclusion of the evening, Seth has learned that there are wants greater than his own. He has learned about loving concern for other people. And, he has learned about a world in which both concentration camp victims and wishes to Heaven are carried upward in a flicker of light and a whirl of smoke.
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