A Different Kind of Passover

In A Different Kind of Passover, Linda Leopold-Strauss explores what happens when something in your family changes? This year, her grandfather, who always leads the seder, is sick. Everyone else wants to leave him quietly in his room, but when one little girl visits her grandfather, she knows that h......more

4.5 stars. This is a very sweet little Passover story that celebrates the joys of Passover and how stressful, sad, and scary it can be when big changes happen, like a sick relative changing how you need to celebrate your holidays. The illustrations are lovely and the writing is touching.......more

Loving story of how a family's Passover changes and stays the same as grandpa ages.......more

This review is meant for parents, teachers, and other people that work with children to read. A little girl is used to celebrating Passover (Pesach) a certain way with her family. Her grandfather just got out of the hospital though and it is feeling much different. He is confined to his room and tha......more

Jessica is practicing her Hebrew so that she can ask questions during seder for Passover. Her grandfather is the one who would answer her questions but is sick in the hospital. Jessica worries about her grandpa because at every Passover celebration he reads the haggadahs and hides the afikomen. Once......more