Tova Lei­ba is hap­py when her father returns from syn­a­gogue on Fri­day night because it means the fes­tive meal can begin. But her sib­lings are not hap­py with the seat­ing arrange­ments: Yaakov does not want to sit near the wall, Eli does not want the ripped chair, and Sara does not want to sit next to the baby. In each case, Tova Lei­ba trades seats as she recites a rhyme: ​“In any seat, no mat­ter where, in any spot, in any chair, whether it is here or there, I’ll be hap­py any­where!” Tova Lei­ba switch­es between each course of the meal. When the neigh­bors stop by for dessert and Abba sets up two stools, Tova Leiba’s sib­lings fol­low her exam­ple and every­one wants to sit on them. They end up on the stools in each other’s laps. While the repet­i­tive sto­ry is rather sim­ple, it comes to life with Ari Binus’s live­ly illus­tra­tions. The air con­di­tion­ing from the vent swirls around the room, and one can sense the excite­ment of Tova Leiba’s younger broth­er from his expres­sive face. A small glos­sary trans­lates the Hebrew and Yid­dish words, and the verse from Proverbs: ​“To a good heart­ed per­son, life’s a con­stant cel­e­bra­tion,” pro­vides a theme for fur­ther dis­cus­sion. Rec­om­mend­ed for ages 4 – 8.