This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

This book was published 2008 by Houghton Mifflin .

Robin Friedman (New Jersey) was born in Israel and came to the United States when she was five, living first in New York City adn then in New Jersey. As a child, she wrote tons of stories about talking squirrels and girls with pigtails and sold them to her guitar teacher for 50 cents. Friedman has since written three novels for young people. Amy Hest has written many children's stories including Rosie's Fishing Trip, Jamaica Louise James. When Jessie Came Across the Sea (Winner of the 1998 Kate Greenaway Medal) and four books about Baby Duck: In the Rain with Baby Duck; Baby Duck and the New Eyeglasses; You're the Boss, Baby Duck! and Off to School, Baby Duck! She remembers lighting Friday night candles with her own grandmother as a child, saying, "It's a lovely tradition. Time with a grandparent is very special and children remember it always. " Amy lives in New York City. Claire A. Nivola is a painter and sculptor and has illustrated several children's picture books. Her illustrations are filled with wonderful decorative details inspired by the furnishings and objects around her. She says, "The rooms in The Friday Nights of Nana are a composite of the various places I have lived in throughout my life. Claire lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two children.