Kibitzers and Fools: Tales My Zayda Told Me--Angela McKenzie

Kibitzers and Fools: Tales My Zayda Told Me

I chose to read this book simply because it looked fun and I had never heard of it before. This is a book with 13 separate stories that were supposedly told to him by his grandfather who spoke Yiddish. Each story as a funny but true moral at the end.

To say the least I absolutely loved this book. Every story is humorous with an eye catching picture. On top of this the book teaches you new Yiddish words in each story. At the end of the book it has a glossary of all the Yiddish words and their meanings that you learned in the book.

Yiddish is such a fun and silly sounding language that I think kids would love trying to learn the words and use them. On top of that it points out some Yiddish words that we already use in the English language. Even more the book shows what it means to have a moral to a story and some of the pages teach valuable life lessons like how to read a thermometer. Overall, I think this would be a great book to use in a class room both as a group read and an individual read.

Taback, Simms. Kibitzers and fools: tales my zayda (grandfather) told me. New York: Viking, 2005. Print.