The Golden Dreydl

Publishers Weekly,Ellen Kushner, host of the public radio series Sound & Spirit, has been performing with the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra in The Golden Dreydl, their Hanukkah adaptation of The Nutcracker; now the story that she narrates appears as a novel with the same name, with line art by Ilene Winn-Lederer. In place of Clara, meet Sara, who after a petulant scene before Tante Miriam (think Drosselmeyer), accidentally tosses a special dreydl through the screen of her aunt's gigantic television; the dreydl is the enchanted daughter of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. (Charlesbridge, $15.95 128p ages 8-11 ISBN 9781-58089-135-6; Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved