A young girl nar­rates her family’s cel­e­bra­tion of Sukkot and Sim­chat Torah: build­ing and dec­o­rat­ing the sukkah, invit­ing the ush­pizin, eat­ing and sit­ting in the sukkah, bless­ing the lulav and etrog, going to the syn­a­gogue for Shem­i­ni Atzeret, march­ing and danc­ing on Sim­chat Torah, and lis­ten­ing to her moth­er chant from the Torah. As with the oth­er books in this series (On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kip­pur, On Hanukkah, On Purim, On Shab­bat, and On Passover) Fish­man places Sukkot and Sim­chat Torah with­in the con­text of the Jew­ish year — ​“It feels good to be busy after the thought­ful still­ness of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kip­pur.” She also weaves inter­est­ing facts and con­cepts into the text, explain­ing how the lulav reminds us that God is every­where and how the lulav and etrog are like a per­son with a heart, lips, eyes, and back­bone. Melanie Hall’s soft, whim­si­cal, pas­tel illus­tra­tions com­ple­ment the mood and tone of the nar­ra­tion and beau­ti­ful­ly illus­trate the rich tra­di­tions of these two hol­i­days. For ages 6 – 10.