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Roaring Brook Press (2005), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 32 pages
Description
Retells a folktale in which Lailah, a guardian angel, places the indentation that everyone has on the upper lip just before a baby is born.
Awards
Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)
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LibraryThing member STBA
With sophisticated, lyrical prose, noted storyteller Howard Schwartz retells the midrash of the angel Lailah.
LibraryThing member raizel
Howard Schwartz explains that this lovely, beautifully illustrated story is from a midrash in MIdrash Tanhuma. All the secrets of the world are shared with a baby before birth, only to be forgotten when the angel Lailah puts her fingers to the baby's lips at birth and leaves an indentation above
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ISBN
1596430281 / 9781596430280