Sey­mour Chwast’s splen­did illus­tra­tions of the tra­di­tion­al Passover Seder song tell sev­er­al sto­ries. First is the one told by the folk­song itself, with the char­ac­ters accu­mu­lat­ing across the top of the pages: the goat, the goat and the cat, the goat, the cat and the dog, etc. Sec­ond is a sto­ry of prepa­ra­tions for the Seder, from the har­vest­ing of wheat to a fam­i­ly gath­ered around the Seder table. And third is a visu­al por­tray­al of life in a shtetl, cap­tur­ing its looks and pace in a way sim­i­lar to what Phoebe Gilman did in Some­thing From Noth­ing (Scholas­tic, 1993). Each pic­ture sto­ry is visu­al­ly engag­ing but with the addi­tion of the words of the song to rein­force the con­nect­ed­ness and cycli­cal nature of Passover rit­u­als, they com­bine to con­vey a com­plex mean­ing in a dis­arm­ing­ly sim­ple man­ner. This is what Rab­bi Michael Strass­feld dis­cuss­es in the ​“After­word,” com­ment­ing on the dual nature of the song: its light­heart­ed qual­i­ties and its more seri­ous impli­ca­tions, both reli­gious and his­tor­i­cal. This approach­able and dis­tinc­tive book, a delight to read again and again, is high­ly rec­om­mend­ed for ages 4 – 10.