Queen Esther - John Irving poetry She now brings her unique

She now brings her unique ideas to the field of Judaica

and the special foods eaten during Sukkot

Birds and squirrels come to visit the tree

With simple rhyming text we share the experience of little children making hamantashen to give as gifts on Purim

After 60 years and three generations

Queen Esther - John Irving poetry She now brings her uniqueAfter forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Awardwinning film, The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Clouds, Maine, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esthera Viennese born Jew whose life is shaped by anti Semitism. Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti Semites in Portland. Dr. Larch knows it wont be