A Sack Full of Feathers

Title: A Sack Full of Feathers Author: Debby Waldman Illustrator: Cindy Revell Genre: European folktale Theme(s): Gossip Opening line/sentence: In the village of Olkiniki lived a boy named Yankel, who loved to tell stories. Brief Book Summary: A Sack Full of feathers is about a little boy named Yankel who......more

Yankel's father owned the store where people would chat and Yankel could listen in. He often would run to tell his friends before hearing the whole story, so he often got it wrong. One day the rabbi gave him a sack of feathers with instructions to leave one feather on the doorstep of everyone in the......more

Good moral - don't spread salacious gossip.......more

I just finished reading both "A Sack Full of Feathers" by Debby Waldman and Cindy Revell and "Yettele's Feathers" by Joan Rothenberg. I am currently a 2nd grade religious school teacher at a synagogue in Raleigh, North Carolina. I was using a textbook titled, "Jewish Values From Alef to Tav: A Value......more

Reviewed by Me for Kids @ TeensReadToo.com Yankel Liebovich has a very bad habit. Since his father owns the village store in Olkinik, he hears all kinds of stories every day. Unfortunately, Yankel doesn't usually hang around to hear the end of the tale. No, what Yankel hears are things that he knows......more