The Carp in the Bathtub

By Barbara Cohen, Joan Halpern (illustrator),

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Book description

Two children try to rescue the carp their mother plans to make into gefilte fish for the Seder

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1 author picked The Carp in the Bathtub as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A classic, The Carp in the Bath Tub, became one of my favorite books over fifty years ago. It speaks to me of the deep compassion children have for animals and how tradition/society is often in conflict with young sensibilities. I feel this book is not only good, but important, for it deals with big issues in a seemingly simple story.

Cohen writes the story as memoir, telling of her youth in New York in the 1930s and how she and her brother try to save the life of the carp that her mother buys a week before Passover, keeping…

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