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PreS-Gr 2 Baxter desperately wants to experience Shabbat dinner, the special Friday-night meal that ushers in the Jewish day of rest. He wants to see for himself how "the candles gleam and glow and dance while our sweetest voices lift in song." When he learns that pork is a forbidden food according to Jewish law, he stuffs his face with kosher pickles and raisin challah, hoping to become kosher. He even tries, unsuccessfully, to become a cow. Finally, an encounter with a kind rabbi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

An offhand comment by a man in a yarmulke gets inquisitive pig Baxter thinking about Shabbat: the Jewish day of rest when "the candles gleam and glow and dance while our sweetest voices lift in song!" Baxter decides he wants to be part of the celebration, so naturally he's crushed to be excluded ("'YOU?...Part of Shabbat dinner? That's impossible!...You're not kosher!'" says a man in a long white apron. "'Kosher?' asked Baxter. 'What's kosher?'"). He spends the rest of the book tryin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Pig Baxter, excluded from Shabbat dinner, tries to become kosher. Baxter's misunderstanding is exposed when Rabbi Rosen asks: "Why woul...Log In or Sign Up to Read More