Review: The Peddler and the President
The Peddler and the President by Ann Diament Koffsky, illustrated by Pedro Rodriguez Apples & Honey Press (imprint of Behrman House), 2025 Category: Early Chapter Books Reviewer: Doreen Klein Robinson Buy at Bookshop.org May is Jewish American History Month (JAHM). I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing a nonfiction chapter book that shines a light on a friendship between two very different American people: Eddie Jacobson and Harry Truman. The Peddler and the President is an extremely important and well crafted book. It’s a solid piece of Jewish American history, with themes of friendship, using your voice, and making a choice. It’s 1903. Eddie Jacobson is a young Jewish man who left school to work in a store to support his struggling family. Harry, a Christian, grew up on a farm and also left school to support his family. He worked at bank - the very same bank that Eddie would go to each day to deposit the store’s money. The two become unlikely friends - but life get...