Every day, Benny’s mother writes him a mitzvah note, and his father draws a picture on it. Benny takes those notes to his teacher in school. Those precious notes, highlighting Benny’s good deeds, mean so much to him. At the end of the school year, the teacher puts each child’s mitzvah notes into an album, which the child then takes home to keep. When he grows too old to take those little notes to school, his mother still writes them, and his father still draws the pictures. Benny certainly tries his best and mitzvos remain at the center of Benny’s life. When it’s time for him to write a mitzvah note for someone else, what will it say, and who gets to keep it? A heartwarming story of life and love that parents and children will want to read over and over again! PreS-Gr 2-Benny's Abba and Ima write him "mitzvah notes" every day for fulfilling one of the many commandments in the life of a young Orthodox Jewish boy. He gets them for doing his morning prayers, for blessing his food, and for welcoming guests into his home. As he grows, he performs the mitzvot (spelled "mitzvos" here) for each holiday and life cycle, until the last note comes at his Bar Mitzvah as he puts on tefillin for the first time. The story ends as Benny's parents find a special note after he has left for yeshiva, a mitzvah note to Abba and Ima for teaching him to "love doing mitzvos!" The watercolor and pencil illustrations have a mid-century style, depicting Benny growing up with smiling parents and happy classmates. A good purchase for traditional Jewish preschools, day schools, or synagogue libraries.-Martha Link Yesowitch, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, NCα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journal. LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. hardcover Marc Lumer was born in France. He spent his childhood going back and forth from Europe to the U.S, filling out sketchbooks with drawings of his travels. Later the family settled in Europe and he attended the prestigious art school of La Cambre, in Brussels, Belgium. After completing his studies, Marc began publishing comic strips for two of the most popular European youth magazines, Spirou and Tintin. While in Europe, he also worked as a freelance illustrator for a variety of European advertising agencies, magazines and publishing companies. He was also an art director for Tintin’s high end apparel line. Marc moved to Los Angeles in the mid nineties when he got hired as a visual development artist by Warner Bros. He has since illustrated children books and has collaborated to the animated films Prince of Egypt and The Road to El Dorado for DreamWorks and on Warner BrosÕ. hit TV shows Batman Beyond and Superman. Marc Lumer owns and operates a boutique advertising agency in Los Angeles, MarcLumerDesign.com. hardcover