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Winner of the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Award 2024
Winner of the V&A Illustration for Children Award 2024
Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2023
Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2023

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.


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.
Winner of the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Award 2024
Winner of the V&A Illustration for Children Award 2024
Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2023
Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2023

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.


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.
Über den Autor
Ziggy Hanaor is a publisher and writer. She is the author of I Am a Potato! and The Pocket Chaotic, and the graphic novels such as The Egg Incident and Everything Amplified.

Benjamin Phillips finds inspiration in human interaction, the humour and turmoil of everyday life and the joy of repetition. His clients include New York Times, Penguin Random House, Ebury Press and the British Council. He is the illustrator of One Day by Michael Rosen, and the author of The Man With Very Long Legs.
Details
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Empfohlen (von): 4
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Kinder & Jugend
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781800660229
ISBN-10: 1800660227
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Hanaor, Ziggy
Illustrator: Phillips, Benjamin
Hersteller: Thames & Hudson
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Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: Illustrated throughout
Maße: 245 x 194 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Ziggy Hanaor
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.04.2022
Gewicht: 0,47 kg
Artikel-ID: 120756908