Hannah the Hanukkah Fairy

There’s a popular book series for young kids called Rainbow Magic; each book revolves around a different fairy (e.g. Cara the Camp Fairy, Stella the Star Fairy, Emma the Easter Fairy) whose magical objects have been stolen by the series’ villain, Jack Frost. The books are formulaic and can hardly be considered high literature, but Zoe and some of her friends still love them! Earlier this year, Zoe and I (when looking through the titles of the hundreds published) discovered that there were no Jewish-holiday themed ones, and we decided to write our own story. And so, Hannah the Hanukkah Fairy was born.

Zoe came up with the outline for the story a few months ago, and we’ve been slowly working on writing it ever since. (We put the finishing touches on it on Thursday night.) Working on the 1,500-word story, which Zoe shared with her classmates and teachers on Friday, was a lot of fun for me, and I hope for Zoe, too. And more importantly, I hope it teaches her more about creativity and innovation: If something doesn’t exist and you will really want it, then just go ahead and create/build/plan/write it!

-M

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