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Please also see our book lists for Sukkot, Hanukkah, and Passover.
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Is It Rosh Hashanah Yet?
CHRIS BARASH - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover
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As summer ends and fall settles in, a family prepares to celebrate Rosh Hashanah. It's time to pick apples, make cards, light the candles, and eat brisket to ring in the new year! |
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Purim Chicken
Margery Cuyler - Albert Whitman
Format: Print book
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It's Purim and the animals on the farm are planning their celebration! They decide to sing songs, wear costumes, and put on a play about Queen Esther. It's fun until Quack the duck, the star of their show, goes missing! Cluck the hen must be brave like Queen Esther and go in search... |
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Bagels from Benny
Aubrey Davis - Kids Can Press
Format: Hardcover
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Benny loves to help out at his grandpa's bakery in the morning, and the customers love the crusty bagels with their soft insides. When Grandpa explains to Benny that God, not him, should be thanked for the wonderful bagels, Benny sets out to do just that. He decides to leave God a bagful... |
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Koala Challah
Laura Gehl - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Library Binding
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Lila's older sisters both have jobs to help their family get ready for Shabbat. Lila wants to help too, but she can't figure out the perfect job, and everything she tries just ends in a gigantic mess. Then Lila has an idea. Maybe she can make the most beautiful, most special,... |
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Something from Nothing
Phoebe Gilman
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A modern adaptation of this favorite Jewish folktale describes how the blanket grandfather had made for young Joseph is transformed over the years into a jacket, a button, and, ultimately, a story. |
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'Til the Cows Come Home
Jodi Icenoggle - Boyds Mills Press
Format: Hardcover
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Boyds Mills Press publishes a wide range of high-quality fiction and nonfiction picture books, chapter books, novels, and nonfiction |
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Brundibar (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards))
Tony Kushner - Hyperion Book CH; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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When Aninku and Pepicek discover one morning that their mother is sick, they rush to town for milk to make her better. Their attempt to earn money by singing is thwarted by a bullying, bellowing hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, who tyrannizes the town square and chases all other street musicians... |
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Purim Is Coming!
Tracy Newman - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Board book
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The fifth in the popular Jewish holiday board book series by Newman and Garofoli, a family and their adorable dog celebrate the kid-friendly holiday of Purim with its megillah reading, parade, cookie baking, and carnival. |
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Rosh Hashanah Is Coming!
Tracy Newman - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Print book
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The creators of Passover Is Coming and Hanukkah Is Coming present a latest holiday-themed board book that depicts a loving family as they prepare to celebrate Jewish New Year traditions together. |
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The Blessing Cup
Patricia Polacco - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A bond of love unites a family throughout generations in this companion to the beloved and bestselling classic The Keeping Quilt.As a young Russian Jewish girl in the early 1900s, Anna and her family lived in fear of the Czar's soldiers. The family lived a hard life and had few possessions... |
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Mrs. Katz and Tush (A Bantam little rooster book)
Patricia Polacco - Doubleday Books for Young Readers; Later Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this special Passover story, Larnel Moore, a young African-American boy, and Mrs. Katz, an elderly Jewish woman, develop an unusual friendship through their mutual concern for an abandoned cat named Tush. Together they explore the common themes of... |
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Tikvah Means Hope
Patricia Polacco - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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Justine and Duane and their neighbors are happily getting ready for Sukkoth, the Jewish harvest holiday. Suddenly, catastrophe strikes as a fire sweeps through their town. Luckily for everyone, there are still miracles in this world--sometimes in the shape of a little cat. This heartfelt... |
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It's a Mitzvah, Grover! (Sesame Street, Shalom Sesame)
Tilda Balsley - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Library Binding
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Grover does a mitzvah (good deed) by joining his friends to spruce up the neighborhood playground. Even Moishe Oofnik comes out of his trash can to help, eating up all the trash, and separating the cans for recycling. |
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One Little Chicken
Elka Weber - Tricycle Press
Format: August 9
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How much work can one little chicken be? When Leora finds a chicken in her front yard, she imagines keeping it as a pet and gathering eggs for breakfast every morning. But her mother has a very different view. Following a Jewish law that says "finders arent keepers," Mrs. Bendosa... |
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A Moon for Moe and Mo
Jane Breskin Zalben - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover
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An interfaith friendship develops when Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, overlaps with the Muslim holiday of Ramadan--an occurence that happens only once every thirty years or so.Moses Feldman, a Jewish boy, lives at one end of Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, while Mohammed Hassan,... |
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What Was the Holocaust?
GAIL HERMAN - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback
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A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event - the Holocaust.The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps - six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis,... |
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Judaism
Michael Hessel-Mial - Britannica Educational Pub
Format: Library Binding
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As one of the world's oldest still practiced religions, Judaism has an illustrious history of fascinating, yet often misunderstood, beliefs and practices. Though it has only fourteen million followers today, Judaism is the basis of the Abrahamic religions, and as such influenced the core... |
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Annie's Shabbat
Lamstein, Sarah
Format: Book
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Shows how Annie and her family celebrate the Jewish Sabbath.
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Judaism
Katie Marsico - Cherry Lake Publishing
Format: Print book
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Using the new C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards, these books explore the six most popular world religions through the lenses of History, Geography, Civics, and Economics. In Judaism, the text and photos look at the history, basic philosophies, and geography of this religion, as well... |
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The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales from Around the World
Howard Schwartz
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1991 (edition) HarperCollins hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket) , 5th printing. Beautiful color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Stories: The Giant Og and the Ark; Magic Pitcher; Chusham and the Wind; Katanya; Magic Sandals of Abu Kassim; Water Witch; Enormous Frog; Tale o |
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Chance: Escape from the Holocaust
Uri Shulevitz - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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From a beloved voice in children's literature comes this landmark memoir of hope amid harrowing times and an engaging and unusual Holocaust story.With backlist sales of over 2.3 million copies, Uri Shulevitz, one of FSG BYR's most acclaimed picture-book creators, details the eight-year... |
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Golem
David Wisniewski - Clarion Books
Format: Print book
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Retold from traditional sources and accompanied by David Wisniewski's unique cut-paper illustrations, Golem is a dramatic tale of supernatural forces invoked to save an oppressed people. It also offers a thought-provoking look at the consequences of unleashing power beyond human control.... |
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