Long-listed for the UKLA 2023 Book Awards for Children-s Fiction. A beautifully illustrated and presented intergenerational graphic novel that follows 11-year-old Benji and his elderly grandmother, Bubbe Rosa, as they traverse Brooklyn and Manhattan, gathering the ingredients for a Friday night dinner. Praise for Alte Zachen ''The graphic novel format brilliantly allows us to see Bubbe in both her present and her past, allowing the reader to better understand her in all her cranky, opinionated grandeur, along with her sweet, caring grandson, Benji. A wonderful intergenerational story about the value of old things.- -- Marissa Moss, Children's Book Author & Illustrator ''To outsiders, Benji-s Bubbe is just a crabby old lady. To the boy, and eventually to us, she becomes a vulnerable figure deserving of great tenderness. -Alte Zachen- is less ambitious and searing than Art Spiegelman-s -Maus,- but like that graphic novel it expands our understanding of the gulf that can exist between gen
