The Knish War on Rivington Street
Illustrator
Jon Davis
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Publication Year
2017
ISBN
9780807541821
Pages
32 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Benny's family owns a knishery and sells delicious round dumplings. Then the Tisch family opens a store across the street-selling square knishes-and Benny's papa worries. So he lowers his prices! But Mr. Tisch does too. As each knishery tries to outdo the other, Benny helps his papa realize there's room on Rivington Street for more than one knishery.
Grade Level
PK-1; K-3
Lexile Measure
560L
Diversity Topics
Culture/Ethnicity; Immigrants and refugees; immigrant family; immigrant children; immigrant parents; migrants; migration; relocation; resettlement
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
White (Eastern European)
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Sydney Taylor Book Award, 2018, Notable Book, Younger Reader
Keywords
bakers; bakeries; competition; dumplings; Jewish; Judaism; New York; Lower East Side; warring bakeries
Diversity Impact
indirect
STARS Citation
Oppenheim, Joanne, "The Knish War on Rivington Street" (2017). Diverse Families. 1752.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1752