I saw this book when making a list of good juvenile reads for Jewish American Heritage Month at my job. It seemed interesting to me, and though I’m not Jewish myself, I like to diversify my reading to experiences outside my own and found it to be a very touching story. I feel like outside of the religious theme, it’s also a story about how we have the power to effect the lives of others and can do simple things to help. I also found the illustrations to be very unique and to follow along nicely with the story. ( )

This is a super cute and heartfelt story. I also like how religion played a role in this book.

OH GOOD, time to get started on retroactively reviewing 60 kids' books! Well, we must imagine Sisyphus happy, I guess. Um, this is one about how Benny brings bagels for God* because he gets it into his little kid dumbhead that God wants bagels and then it turns out a homeless guy is removing them from the ark and eating them and his faith is affirmed of course as also is Benny's when his zayde gets him to see how the whole thing is a clear matter of God's grace and not to be so freakin literal in his little kid dumbhead.

*I originally wrote "G-d" but that seemed crypto-anti-Semitic somehow and maybe that's oversensitive but why not err on the side of not crypto-anti-Semitic? ( )

I enjoyed this book. The illustrations are calming. I think that it was really accurate in the way Benny's thoughts progress too. If I were a child, I would think to do the same thing with the bagels, although I might have been more cautious than Benny. ( )