Peg + Cat: The Eid al-Adha Adventure by Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aronson. PICTURE BOOK. Candlewick Entertainment, 2018. $13. 9780763699321
BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL.
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Peg and Cat visit some of their friends who are celebrating Eid al-Adha and admit they don’t know anything about the holiday but would like to learn. Yasmina and Amir, their friends, explain that it is a time of feasting and giving. They show some of the foods they have made and together they share some with neighbors and some with those in need.
I love that one of the characters is wearing a hijab and even talks about picking it out. I don’t like that the religion or region of world from which Eid al-Adha comes is not named. My kids kept asking and I kept assuming the text would answer that eventually, but it never did. There are math problems sprinkled in the text, but I didn’t find them very compelling for kids to learn something new or notice something they already knew, although I’m certain a math teacher could make those connections for the readers.
Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher
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