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Sarah's Passover

Lisa Bullard - Millbrook Press
Format: Paperback

Sarah is excited to celebrate Passover! She helps get the house ready. At the seder, the special Passover dinner, she asks The Four Questions. After dinner, the children hunt for the matzah that Grandpa has hidden. Find out how families celebrate this Jewish holiday of freedom! Learn the history...
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Hoppy Passover!

Linda Glaser - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

Violet and Simon, two small bunnies, are excited about Passover. They help set out the Seder plate, they taste that first bite of Matzoh and a little bit of horseradish, search for the Afikomen, and most importantly...they ask lots of questions! Linda Glasers simple, cozy story is just...
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The Little Red Hen and the Passover Matzah

Leslie Kimmelman - Holiday House
Format: Print book

Oy gevalt! The Little Red Hen likes baking matzah, but she's not so crazy about doing everything herself. Would it be too much to ask her friends Dog, Horse, and Sheep to help plant and harvest some wheat for the delicious Passover treat? Couldn't they at least help schlep the wheat...
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This Is the Matzah

Abby Levine - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

Max and his family prepare to celebrate Passover. In cumulative verse, Max and his sister Ruth shop for matzah in the Passover aisle of the grocery store. The family gathers for the traditional Seder that celebrates this holiday of freedom.
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Izzy the Whiz and Passover McClean

Yael Mermelstein - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Print book

Izzy the Whiz is an amateur inventor who, right before Passover, creates a super duper machine that whirs and purrs and munches and crunches and miraculously cleans the entire house just in time for the holiday – but not without creating havoc along the way. A fun, crazy, rhyming tale...
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A Sweet Passover

Lesléa Newman - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Book

In this charming and humorous story, Miriam discovers—with the help of her family and a little matzah bread—the true meaning and importance of Passover. Miriam loves spending time with her family during Passover, and all week long she is happy to eat lots of matzah. But when...
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Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tail

Leslea Newman - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover

Celebrated author Lesla Newman unites a young boy and a stray kitten in a warm, lyrical story about Passover, family, and friendship.Inside, a boy and his family sit around the dinner table to embrace the many traditions of their Passover Seder around the dinner table. Outside, a cat wonders,...
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Passover Is Coming!

Tracy Newman - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Print book

Readers join a cute family and their dog as they prepare for and celebrate the spring holiday of Passover, cleaning the house, making matzah ball soup, assembling the seder plate, saying the Four Questions, and looking for the afikomen at the end of the seder. This 12-page board book features...
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Passover Family

Monique Polak - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Board book

Teach babies and toddlers about this important Jewish festival by exploring what happens during the Passover seder with this delightful photographic board book. This primer features family and friends coming together to share a meal, tell stories and sing songs, and encourages little ones...
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Pirate Passover

Judy Press - Kar-Ben Publishing ®
Format: Hardcover

The pirates are getting ready to celebrate Passover at sea, until their ship is washed ashore in a storm. What will they do? Luckily, they find a house with an open door, and everyone is invited in to enjoy the seder.
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Passover Scavenger Hunt

Shanna Silva - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Print book

Rachel's uncle is terrible at hiding the afikomen. It's always too easy to find! So this year, Rachel decides to take over. She finds the perfect hiding spot and creates a series of clues for her cousins to follow. Can you guess where the hunt will lead them?
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A Different Kind of Passover

Linda Leopold Strauss - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Print book

Jessica loves spending Passover with her grandparents. But this year, Grandpa is sick and can't lead the seder like he always does. Jessica knows Passover won't be the same. But maybe she can find a way to include Grandpa in the seder - and make the holiday as joyful as ever.
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Paulie's Passover Predicament

Jane Sutton - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Paulie the moos-ician can hardly wait to host a Passover seder for his friends. Unfortunately, his seder doesn't turn out quite the way he planned. Will the hunt for the afikomen make the evening a success?
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The Passover Mouse

Joy Nelkin Wieder - Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In this charming and witty Passover story about kindness, community, tradition, and forgiveness, a little mouse disrupts a town's preparations for the holiday when it steals a piece of leavened bread - or chometz - just as all the houses have been swept clean in time for the holiday.It's...
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The Passover Parrot

Evelyn Zusman - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Hardcover

It's Lily's turn to say the Four Questions at the Passover Seder, but nobody will help her practice. Things change with the arrival of Hametz the Parrot. Clever Hametz not only helps Lily but solves the puzzle of who stole the afikomen! Back by popular demand, the newly illustrated...
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Nonfiction

Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Passover: With Matzah, Maror, and Memories

Deborah Heiligman - National Geographic Society
Format: Library Binding

The most celebrated holiday in the Jewish year, Passover commemorates the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt to freedom over 3,500 years ago. This colorful book explores the many forms that this weeklong celebration takes worldwide. Deborah Heiligman's rich text details the long...
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Passover

Miriam Nerlove - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Library Binding

Intended for the very young, Passover is an introduction to this traditional Jewish holiday, told in rhyming verses. Full-color illustrations enhance the lively rhymes.
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Passover: Festival of Freedom

Monique Polak - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Print book

During Passover, Jews are reminded of how, more than three thousand years ago, their ancestors emerged from slavery to become free men and women. Bestselling author Monique Polak explores her own Jewish roots as she tells the Passover story, which reminds us that the freedom to be who we are and practice...
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The Four Questions

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Explores the meaning of Passover by explicating the symbolism of the Seder and the four questions
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