Yiddish With Dick and Jane (Dick and Jane (Hardcover))
- Authors
- Weiner, Ellis & Davilman, Barbara
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Tags
- hum007000 , humour
- 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.