âHow can a vegetable be ârudeâ?â Talia wonders, when she mis-hears her grandmother asking her to gather ârootâ vegetables for a Rosh Hashanah stew. As Talia digs in the garden, she collects the twisted, ornery carrots and parsnipsâthe ârudeâ vegetables that she thinks her grandmother wantsâand finds a good home for the rest.
Linda Elovitz Marshall is an award-winning author of almost thirty books for children. Linda's Jewish-themed books include Talia and the Rude Vegetables, Talia and the Very YUM Kippur, Talia and the Haman-Tushies, and The Mexican Dreidel. Her work has been translated into almost a dozen languages and adapted for dance, theater, and radio. She lives in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State and in New York City.