A youngster trips on the way home; he falls, dislodges his shoe, worse, he loses his notebook from which he must study for a test the next day. With the help of his extended family the boy learns fifty-one Yiddish expressions and impresses his teacher. Each word appears in a box at the bottom of the page with formal translation into English; each flies around the illustrations to underline the point of the new word. Here is a genuine read-aloud book. Its humor is catching and the new words become part of the reader in a painless, valuable way.