I was drawn to this book since Had Gadya has always been my family's favorite part of the seder and it did not disappoint! I love the time travel through various s'derim, meeting famous Jewish historical figures. Pair this with the short story compilation On All Other Nights to give your middle grade readers a fresh perspective on Passover. Highly recommended for grades 5 & up.

Thank you to W. W. Norton & Company | Norton Young Readers, and NetGalley for allowing me to read this!

As someone who grew up going to Seder, they did often feel well... undending. So to find a book where that *is* the premise, that it's going on forever? very funny.
I loved the scapegoat, who I did feel very sorry for. I loved the journey through the Seder, and the illustrations felt very nostalgic to me.

If you ever identified with the Wise Child (or was angry at the Wise Child for being so sanctimonious), this is very much a short, emotional book for you or your children!
I definitely will be recommending this to my students.

I cannot believe I've gone through 31 years on this planet knowing absolutely nothing about Passover. This book is a wildly illustrated strange story about a first-born son and his search through a hallway of time and space for his family's missing afikomen. (If you're worried because, like me, you had no prior knowledge of Passover, do not worry; terminology and traditions are explained in a natural and story-serving way.)
The illustration style is so unique and shows movement and sound and the chaos of the situation in a fitting way. It is well suited to the oddness of the story itself.
It was like the graphic novel Passover version of Bradbury's The Halloween Tree in its historical exploration of customs through time. It was a fun, well-paced and informative ride that I easily read in one sitting.

There are more than four questions.

Dara Horn combines a time portal, and a talking goat with her dry wit, observations about family dynamics, and small lessons in Jewish history to tell this fantastic Passover middle grade story. Prolific illustrator Theo Ellsworth has added his own unique style to bring this story to life in a graphic novel. Instead of using the usual color panels that are typical of many graphic novels, he chooses to use intricate black and white line art which helps set the mood. The detailed illustrations were as strange as the story and I was captivated by both.

We have all been to seders that felt like they would never end. But when the baby throws the afikoman into a time portal, everyone is stuck at the seder for months on end. In true time-travel trope fashion events happen all at the same time. Dara Horn adds her own twist to this marvelous middle grade graphic novel. All seders are not only happening at the same time, but they are all stacked underneath each other. When the scapegoat from the Passover Seder song shows up, he leads the oldest son through a portal and down through Passovers past to find the afikoman. The boy sees the seders of his own family members before delving even deeper into the past and realizes that he didn't really know them that well. While traveling deep into the past, the readers will learn a lot of Jewish history along with the protagonist, and the youngster learns that maybe "the wisest son" may not be so wise after all. As the author points out in her afterward, the exodus may have been 3000 years ago, but we continue to battle prejudice and persecution. Passover has four questions, but there are always more questions to be asked.