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Cover for Room for Rent featuring an illustration of a castle with purple, beige, blue, red, and green, elements with animals including a squirrel, cat, bird, and chicken poking their heads out of its windows. The title of the book is on a sign hanging from the castle as if the title is advertising room for rent in the castle. It's on a white background with blue clouds in the sky.

Room for Rent

By Leah Goldberg, Jessica Setbon (Translator), Shmuel Katz (Illustrator)

Room for Rent. Leah Goldberg. Translated by Jessica Setbon. Illustrated by Shmuel Katz. Gefen Publishing House, 2018. Originally published as Dira Lehaskir in Hebrew by Sefarim Poalim in Tel Aviv, in 1983. ISBN 9789652299208. 24 p. (Ages 3-8). Picture book.

The animal inhabitants of an apartment building advertise for a new tenant. Each prospective renter finds fault with one of the neighbors, until the peace-loving Dove arrives. A modern classic of Israeli children’s literature. [ayg]

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