Cool Gift of the Day
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
What it is:
A humorous spoof of the classic "Dick and Jane" book series, which has the First Family speaking Yiddish.
Why we love it:
In this inspired follow-up to the bestselling Yiddish with Dick and Jane, Yiddish - the mother tongue of irony - invades the ultimate bastion of American WASP culture: Kennebunkport, home of the Bush family. This hilarious new primer-style book in which George, Laura, and the entire Bush family communicate with uncharacteristic expressiveness, conveying shades of feeling and nuances of meaning that plain old English can't deliver - by peppering their conversation with Yiddishisms. Like all good primers, Yiddish with George and Laura tells a simple story - and, in the end, important life lessons are imparted.