LeVar celebrates the beauty and value of cross-cultural relationships as he visits his very own "bubee" and learns to make some traditional Jewish foods.

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Feature Book:

Mrs. Katz and Tush

A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African- American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely, Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.

Author: Patricia Polacco
Illustrator: Patricia Polacco
Publisher: Bantam

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

A small boy tries to discover the meaning of "memory" so he can restore that of an elderly friend.

Author: Mem Fox
Illustrator: Julie Vivas
Publisher: Kane/Miller

Abuela

While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City. Their conversation is in English spiced with Spanish phrases.

Author: Arthur Dorros
Illustrator: Elisa Kleven
Publisher: Penguin

Kwanzaa

Share a Kwanzaa celebration with an African American family as they honor the ties that bind them to the spirits of their ancestors and to the history and culture of Africa.

Author: Deborah M. Newton Chocolate
Illustrator: Melodye Rosales
Publisher: Children's Press