The joyous holiday of Purim celebrates the salvation of the Jews from a wicked anti-Semitic prime minister named Haman, who plotted to annihilate the Jewish people in one day. Through the leadership and bravery of Queen Esther and her cousin Mordecai, his plot was thwarted and the Jewish people were delivered and spared. Purim is celebrated with costumes, food, music, and dancing, prayer, a reading of the book of Esther, and giving to the needy. Grandma Leola Celebrates Purim is the 4th of the Grandma Leola books. Grandma Leola is the embodiment of the essential love, legacy and wisdom of Grandmothers in simple poetic rhymes, and photographs representing all of humanity. Issues of life, aging, loss, hope, holidays, and everything beautiful about family shared from a Grandmother, Leola, to her Granddaughter, Sydney. In this book Sydney meets her neighbor, a holocaust survivor, and learns about freedom, faith, hope and survival.