About the Author

"Like Hokusai, I am an old man mad about drawing," says the illustrator, Mordicai Gerstein, and he pays homage to the famed Japanese artist through his witty illustrations for this book, which are also inspired by Japanese anime. A starred "School Library Journal" review described his artwork for Eric A. Kimmel's "The Jar of Fools: Eight Hanukkah Stories from Chelm" as "brightly drawn and silly as the stories themselves." He lives in Massachusetts. Eric A. Kimmel is the celebrated author of Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, also set in Ukraine. He lives in Oregon.