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"The Doodle family will help your child discover the secrets of the Hebrew month. Each beautifully illustrated page is filled with unforgettable rhymes which children will love learning and repeating"--Cover, p. [4].

"A wonderful book about figuring out who we are and who we want to be when we grow up. It's also about being an American-especially a first-generation American." -Roz Chast This graphic-novel debut from an acclaimed picture book creator is a powerfully moving memoir of the author's experiences with family, religion, and coming of age in the aftermath of World War II, and the childhood struggles and family secrets that shaped her. It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised C...

A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding's Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.On the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees and a Stasi informant; in that time, a world war came and went, and the Berlin Wall was built a stone's throw from the cottage's back door. Thomas Hardin...

Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about legendary music icon, Barbra Streisand. Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers—as well as fans of all ages! This Little Golden Book about Barbra Streisand--the EGOT-winning singer, actress, and director, and star of Funny Girl and Hello, Dolly!--is an inspiring read-aloud for young readers. Look for more Little Golden Book biographies: Dolly PartonTaylor SwiftJulie Andr...

This helpful reference provides ready answers to more than 180 questions Jewish children most frequently ask about their faith. It covers not only the basics of Jewish belief, custom, and practice but also the kinds of questions that arise from the magical way that children view the world, such as "Will the Messiah have superpowers like Batman or Superman?" or "Why don't the kinds of miracles in the Bible happen today?" If also addresses the knotty philosophical questions that often leave parent...

A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner A kitten’s stroll down a keyboard leads to a celebrated one-minute composition in this charming portrait of a remarkable true friendship. Moshe Cotel was a composer who lived in a noisy building on a noisy street in a noisy city. But Moshe didn’t mind. Everything he heard was music to his ears. One day, while out for a walk, he heard a small, sad sound that he’d never heard before. It was a tiny kitten! “Come on, little Ketzel,”...

“This book explains all about matzah, one of the foods traditionally featured at a Passover seder table.” – Washington Post  How is matzah made?  When and why do we eat it?  What is Passover, anyway?   Meet the people who make matzah — by hand or in factories — and see how they keep to the strict 18-minute limit, mirroring the Israelites' race against time over 2,000 years ago. Find out how the matzah-making process is more than just mixing flour with water and shows us the value of doing...

Uses a case study format to explain Jewish law as expressed in the Bible, the Talmud, and the Jewish Reform movement.

In time for the 2025 Maccabiah Games, this picture book biography tells the origin story of the third-largest international sporting event and the unique problem-solving creator Yosef Yekutieli employed to make his dream possible. In 1912, 15-year-old Yosef Yekutieli listened to radio broadcasts from the Stockholm Olympics and hatched an idea: an Olympic-style competition for Jewish athletes from around the globe in the brand-new city of Tel Aviv. People initially didn't take him seriously,...

Introduce children to journaling with a lighthearted touch. Help them view their Jewishness as inseparable from themselves.

This spirited collection will make the Jewish people’s beginnings tangible to today’s readers. --KIRKUS REVIEWSTake a fresh look at the Bible stories you think you know, retold using the Jewish concept of midrash.Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Moses. We think we know their stories, but the Bible tells us only part of it. What if we could see the full picture? Maybe we’d discover that… …Adam and Eve were challenging the rules, growing up. …Noah felt fearful and angry, desperate for any kind...

A young adult edition of the best-selling classic about the Holocaust and finding meaning in suffering, with a photo insert, a glossary of terms, a chronology of Frankl’s life, and supplementary letters and speeches Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning is a classic work of Holocaust literature that has riveted generations of readers. Like Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl and Elie Wiesel’s Night, Frankl’s masterpiece is a timeless examination of life in the Nazi death camps. At the same...