Pota­toes At Tur­tle Rock shares the unique ways that Annie’s fam­i­ly cel­e­brates Hanukkah. On Hanukkah, when it’s snow­ing, they cel­e­brate in the woods and this year, Annie cre­ates var­i­ous adven­tures that use the tra­di­tion­al sym­bols, foods and fun of Han­nukah in new ways. Annie’s Moth­er, Father, younger broth­er, Lin­coln, and their pet goat and chick­en, stop at Old Log, where Annie pass­es out gifts, hot pota­toes. They warm their hands on the pota­toes that she’s giv­en them, just as her Great-Grand­pop warmed his hands in the shtetl, back in the Old Coun­ty. At their next stop, a dark cave, they learn that Hanukkah occurs at the dark­est time of the year, and one rea­son we light Hanukkah can­dles is to over­come the dark­ness. At the next stop, they make Hanukkah meno­rahs out of the pota­toes, light the can­dles and sing the Hanukkah bless­ings. The last stop is Tur­tle Rock, where the fam­i­ly enjoys a Hanukkah treat of pota­toes and snow cones. Instead of mak­ing snow angels, Annie and Lin­coln make drei­dels in the snow and share a bless­ing of grat­i­tude. With its warm and engag­ing full-col­or illus­tra­tions, this love­ly sto­ry of fam­i­ly and tra­di­tion sneaks in facts and vocab­u­lary about the Jew­ish hol­i­day. It also illus­trates that there are oth­er ways to cel­e­brate than the usu­al home obser­vances, and may inspire fam­i­lies to try new and dif­fer­ent Hanukkah activ­i­ties, or cre­ate their own. There also is a brief expla­na­tion of the his­to­ry of Hanukkah at the end of the book. High­ly rec­om­mend­ed for ages 6 – 9.