Waiting Wall
Product Code: 9781929628490
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Description
The text describes the experience of visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem: You will move past the others toward the Kosel [Wall], and there it will be, waiting for you. An unnamed boy and girl are shown in each illustration, acting as avatars for readers. The pace of the story is calm and thoughtfully poetic as it describes the physical space, the behavior of visitors (Some cry because they are happy. Some cry because they are sad), the plant and animal life that thrives among the stones, and the notes for God people leave in the Wall's cracks. The story ends on a hopeful note as it imagines the joy the Wall's visitors will feel when the Messiah comes.