Rising: A Shabbat Baking Story

Name: Rising: A Shabbat Baking Story
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SKU: 9781529522624
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From the winners of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award

By Sidura Ludwig

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Rising: A Shabbat Baking Story is a quiet, joyful story that celebrates a Jewish mother’s tradition of making challah with her child. It merges lyrical text with stunning illustrations and includes the author’s favourite recipe. Melt into the nooks and crannies of this book’s unhurried pages,... Read More

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Description

Rising: A Shabbat Baking Story is a quiet, joyful story that celebrates a Jewish mother’s tradition of making challah with her child. It merges lyrical text with stunning illustrations and includes the author’s favourite recipe.

Melt into the nooks and crannies of this book’s unhurried pages, offering a place to rest and spend time counting your many blessings—current and imminent. Here, a child and a mother measure, mix, knead, shape, and tuck their dough under a towel like a sleeping baby. Then, as they do every week, they wait while their dough rises, soon to be baked and gratefully shared at a Shabbat gathering with loved ones.

Sidura Ludwig’s poetic narration captures the experience of a Jewish family as they make challah—a lesson in patience, slowing down, faith, and family. Illustrator Sophia Vincent Guy brings light and warmth to the scene, from a sun-bleached, gossamer curtain to the rising steam from the bread, all rendered in delicate, decorative patterns.

Whatever their background, readers will be happy to find the author’s go-to recipe for challah at the end, along with a glossary and an author’s note describing the personal meaning of her family’s weekly ritual.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529522624

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Walker Books Ltd

Contributors:

Illustrated by Sophia Vincent Guy

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 236.0mm

Height: 274.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 40

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Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Sidura Ludwig

About the Author

Sidura Ludwig is an award-winning writer for children and adults. Her short story collection You Are Not What We Expected won the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature and was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Her novel Holding My Breath was a finalist for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Master of Journalism from Carleton University. Rising is her debut picture book. Sidura Ludwig lives in Ontario, Canada, with her family, where she makes challah every week.

Sophia Vincent Guy holds a Master of Architecture from McGill University in Montreal. She started her own company, SVG Illustration & Design, in 2015, and her work includes children's illustration, editorial art, and surface and graphic design. She is the illustrator of several picture books, including A Big Stink: A Tale of Ardor and Odor by Edward H. Kafka-Gelbrecht and In Every Generation: A PJ Library Family Haggadah, which has been translated into several languages. After growing up in Canada, Sophia Vincent Guy now works from her garden studio in a small city outside Tel Aviv, Israel.

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