Yiddish With Dick and Jane
- Authors
- Weiner, Ellis & Davilman, Barbara
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Tags
- humour , hum007000
- ISBN
- 9780316025553
- Date
- 2004-09-13T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.75 MB
- Lang
- en
*Jane is in real estate.
Today is Saturday.*
*Jane has an open house.*
*She must* schlep *the Open House signs to the car.*
*See Jane* schlep*.*
Schlep*, Jane.* Schlep*.*
Schlep, schlep, schlep.
In text that captures the unque rhythms of the original *Dick and Jane* readers, and in 35 all-new illustrations, a story unfolds in which Dick and Jane--hero and heroine of the classic books for children that generations of Americans have used when learning to read--manage to express shades of feeling and nuances of meaning that ordinary English just can't deliver. How? By speaking Yiddish, employing terms that convey an *attitude*--part plucky self-assertion, part ironic fatalism. When Dick *schmoozes*, when Jane *kvetches*, when their children *fress* noodles at a Chinese restaurant, the clash of cultures produces genuine hilarity.