The story of a shy little girl going to visit her neighbor who has recently moved into a retirement home.  On her first visit Lily hides behind her mother and refuses to say hello, but over the course of several visits she begins to make friends among the residents of the home, and by the end she’s celebrating her birthday with them. The illustrations are bright and cheerful and convey the distinctly Jewish features of the characters.  The book is not about being Jewish — its plot line is universal — it just happens to be set among a Jewish community, a group that has sometimes been left out of the wider trend toward multi-culturalism in children’s literature.