The miraculous birth here is of a potato pancake, which, unlike its less loquacious literary cousin the Gingerbread Man, begins screaming the moment it gets cooked. Leaping out of the frying pan and into the great white spaces of illustrator Lisa Brown's retro-cool graphics, the latke screams even louder as it tries in vain to explain itself and its role at Hanukkah in this highly entertaining book that all ages can appreciate.