When young David and Mama and Papa are celebrating Hanukkah one frosty winter evening in Brooklyn, Papa sees a parakeet sitting on the window ledge. He lets the parakeet in and everyone is delighted to find that it speaks Yiddish. They name it Dreidel and it becomes part of their family. Many years later, when David is in college, he is at a party one night and tells Dreidel's story--only to discover that Zelda, a young woman at the party, owned the bird herself as a child.
- ISBN10 0374300941
- ISBN13 9780374300944
- Publish Date 8 September 2015
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 November 2022
- Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 32
- Language English