![]() ![]() Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol also played a role in influencing Hershel. I thought ‘why not try to write a decent Hanukkah story?’ ”įrom that jumping-off point, Kimmel looked to folklore, including a Ukrainian tale starring Ivanko the bear’s son and featuring a goblin. “You have the story of the Maccabees, which is kind of exciting when you’re 10, but once you’ve heard it a few times, you get sick of it. “For every Jewish kid growing up in the ’50s, like me, the Christmas stuff was magnificent, and the Jewish stuff was, frankly, pretty lame,” he notes. “It’s a patchwork quilt of things,” says Kimmel, looking back on his inspiration for Hershel’s tale. It was first published as a picture book by Holiday House in 1989, and went on to win a Caldecott Honor. ![]() Kimmel, illustrated by the late Trina Schart Hyman. Take a non-traditional holiday story, add a noted illustrator, blend with a trio of enthusiastic magazine and children’s book editors, and what do you get? Back in the 1980s, the result was Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric A. ![]()
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