Banana Menorah

"An engaging book depicting a family's fun and unique spin on their Hanukkah celebrations."-School Library Journal

When Skylar and her dads discover they forgot to pack a Hanukkah menorah for their winter vacation, Skylar's creative thinking saves the celebration with unusual and silly replacements.

It's fun to be on vacation, but Skylar is glad the family will also be lighting Hanukkah candles just like they do at home. But as the first night draws near, they discover that while they brought Hanukkah candles, they forgot to bring a menorah. With some quick creative thinking, Skylar improvises some highly unusual solutions for the first three nights of Hanukkah. The family is happy to get home to their regular menorahs while there are still a a few nights of Hanukkah left to celebrate. Yet while they love the warm glow of their traditional menorahs, do they really want to light the same ones every night? Maybe tradition can be changed a little.

Inspired by the author's own experience forgetting a menorah on vacation, this book also includes a guide for readers to make their own unusual menorahs.

Lee Wind writes the books that would have changed his life as a young gay Jewish kid. He's the author of the picture books Love of the Half-Eaten Peach and Red and Green and Blue and White. He also runs the popular blog I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell Do I Read? - words his younger self only dreamed of saying. Lee lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Karl West was born in Oxfordshire, England. Influenced by his love of comics and comic books, he creates his work entirely digitally in Manga Studio and Photoshop. Karl illustrated The Daring Prince Dashing. He has won several awards, including 2nd place in the World Pencil Sharpening Championships of 1986. He now lives and works from a studio on the small island of Portland in Dorset, England.