Naomi Howland

I have mixed feelings over this book. I liked how it was about another culture and it introduced other foods that Jewish people eat on passover in a humor way. There was also a glossary of terms in the back of the book to help introduce other cultures and the meaning behind unfamiliar words. I did not like that the story did not have a point, the matzah man would just run away from everyone saying "hot from the oven I jumped and ran, so clever and quick, I'm the matzah man." Then the boy in the story lied to his family about the matzah man being in his home and then everyone ate him and the matzah man died. So there was no plot and there were no well developed characters. The illustration of the matzah man was very detailed and looked like real matzah. The message of this story was that Jewish holidays are spent with family and friends where they enjoy lots of ethnic foods including matzah.… (mehr)