What is Passover?
Join the author as he tells us what Passover is. He explains that the Children of Israel lived in Egypt as slaves. One of their people, Moses, on instruction from God, wanted to take the people out of Egypt. But when he went to Pharoah, the ruler of Egypt, to ask for the people to go, he said, “no.”
Because of that, God made bad things happen in Egypt. Right before the tenth thing, Pharaoh said they could go. That is because he did not want the last bad thing to happen. The Children of Israel left right away, but then Pharaoh changed his mind. He and his soldiers chased after them to bring them back.
Pharaoh thought that he had them trapped by the Red Sea. But God had Moses hold up his stick over the sea and the waters parted and all the Children of Israel walked through dry land to the other side.
Pharaoh and his soldiers started to chase them, but God had the waters fall down on all of them, and the Children of Israel were free. That event is known as the Passover.
Every year, the Jewish people have a special Passover dinner to remember and celebrate their freedom from slavery. The dinner is called a Seder and everyone eats the same thing, and every item eaten symbolizes something about Passover. The celebration lasts eight days.
Even though this book is written on a child’s level, I learned a lot reading this, too. The very last page goes into great detail about the food and celebration that take place.
Children will enjoy all the colorful illustrations and hearing about all the different plagues that took place, and how the people got free. Ages four through ten-years-old will enjoy this.
Thanks to Candlewick Press, for providing Tickmenot with a complimentary copy of, “The Story of Passover,” by David A. Adler, for the purpose of review. Opinions are my own.
