It is another day at Workitu's village. As usual, she is awoken by the morning sounds of the village. However, for Workitu, something doesn't feel right. She knows that today, ahead of the Passover celebrations, she will have to break all of the crockery she had become so used to, including her favourite cup, the one she made all by herself. She can't help but feel that she will be losing something valuable and meaningful to her. Then, an incident makes her drop the cup she was holding on to the ground, breaking it into pieces. Workitu begins to cry, but then her auntie shares a secret she learned a long time ago, and Workitu is finally able to see this tradition in a new light: ?It's good to break things sometimes. To let go of old things . . . I break, and then I make. All with the same hands.? With beautiful illustrations throughout, this is a meaningful tale about the importance of letting go of the old to make space for the new, and how family traditions are passed on through generations. AUTHORS: Maayan Ben Hagai was born in Kibbutz Degania Bet in 1970. She is a social worker and owns a bookstore in a mobile truck, Astronautit, which she takes to various communities on the weekends. She has published two novels, short stories and a book for youth, Gudai, which she wrote with Zahava Goshen. She lives in Jerusalem with her three daughters. Zahava Goshen was born in Ethiopia in 1976. She made Aliya to Israel in 1984. She works at the welfare department and is a graduate with a major in education and parental guidance. Zahava lives in Beit Shemesh with her family. Zahava and Maayan have written two stories together, Gudai and Workitu's Passover. In 2016, Zahava and Maayan received the Minister of Education's Award for Children's Literature for Gudai. Eden Spivak is a children's book and editorial illustrator, with a BA in visual communication from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. She is also a design writer and editor. She enjoys working at the intersection of text and image, putting visual concepts into words, and dreaming up imagery to accompany written text.
