{"id":257,"date":"2010-11-15T18:05:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2010\/11\/happy-birthday-to-me-free-books-for-you.html"},"modified":"2010-11-15T18:05:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T18:05:21","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me-free-books-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2010\/11\/happy-birthday-to-me-free-books-for-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to me, free books for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s<i> erev<\/i> my birthday on the secular calendar. (Wondering when your birthday is on the Hebrew calendar? You can find out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/calendar\/birthday_cdo\/aid\/6228\/jewish\/Jewish-Birthday.htm\">here<\/a>.) Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be something-something. No, actually I&#8217;ll be 43. After spending the weekend with a bunch of young hippies at the <a href=\"http:\/\/isabellafreedman.org\/adamah\/intro\">Teva<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/isabellafreedman.org\/adamah\/intro\">Adamah<\/a> staff reunion, it&#8217;s actually starting to feel kind of <i>old<\/i>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/feivel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"feivel.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/86\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/feivel-thumb-150x126-19355.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"126\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>What better way to celebrate than to offer a children&#8217;s book giveaway? (Well, a romantic dinner with my husband, for one, but that will have to wait until we have a babysitter.) Kar-Ben publishers (yes, the folks who published both my first and upcoming books, and yes, who sent me a copy to review) are offering a very sweet story, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=S5v4OILE2ocC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=feivels+flying+horses&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=3Zafgq09EA&amp;sig=Xucrs7WWIOLyyE1Z_IAuya5MXgk&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=ZsLhTPTpEcL78AammNWGDw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=6&amp;ved=0CDgQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Feivel&#8217;s Flying Horses<\/a><\/i>, by Heidi Smith Hyde, to one lucky reader. It&#8217;s the story of how an immigrant turns his skill at carving synagogue furniture into a viable career as a merry-go-round horse artisan. I still feel about ten years old when I go on the rides at the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk with my kids every summer, so this seems like a perfect match for the day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To enter, all you have to do is post a comment about a favorite birthday tradition. For <i>you<\/i>, this time. Not your kids. Post by the end of November 21 in order to be eligible.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s erev my birthday on the secular calendar. (Wondering when your birthday is on the Hebrew calendar? You can find out here.) Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be something-something. No, actually I&#8217;ll be 43. 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