New Releases by Heidi E Y Stemple

Following in the kitchen footsteps of their earlier Fairy Tale Feasts for young readers and eaters, author Jane Yolen retells some fun Jewish folktales and Heidi Stemple writes delicious Jewish recipes to accompany them. Yolen is the storyteller; Stemple the chef. Readers of all ages will love this richly illustrated book. (cover verso).

A charming book the whole family will appreciate. It is not unusual that folk stories are often about food. Jacks milk cow traded for beans, Snow White given a poisoned apple, a pancake running away from those who would eat it, Hansel and Gretel lured by the gingerbread house and its candy windows and doors. Fairy Tale Feasts is more than collection of stories and recipes. In it, Caldecott-winning author Jane Yolen and her daughter, Heidi Stemple, imagine their readers as co-conspirators. About the creation of the stories and the history of the foods they share fun facts and anecdotes designed to encourage future cooks and storytellers to make up their own versions of the classics.

A young girl relates the facts that are known about the unexplained disappearance of the crew on the ship Mary Celeste in 1872, and challenges the reader to solve the mystery.