Hanukkah Hamster by Michelle Markel
Illustrator: André Ceolin The holiday season is a busy time, with people bustling about. And it’s a busy time for Edgar, a cabdriver who conveys passengers around the city. All day long Edgar drives...
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How It’s Made: Hanukkah Menorah by Allison Ofanansky
How is a menorah made? Why does it have nine branches? What is Hanukkah, anyway? Meet the people who make different menorahs, and find out how an ancient Jewish tradition is celebrated. What are...
Hannah’s Hanukkah Hiccups by Shanna Silva
Illustrator: Bob McMahon It’s Hanukkah, and Hannah Hartman can’t stop Hiccupping! Her neighbors try to help by sharing their sometimes silly, always fun, remedies: “Drink pickle juice backwards,” says Mr. Brown, while Señora River...
Meet the Latkes by Alan Silberberg
Lucy Latke’s family is just like yours or mine. Except that they’re potato pancakes. And also, they are completely clueless. After lighting the menorah and gobbling the gelt, Grandpa Latke tells everyone the Hanukkah...
Light the Menorah! A Hanukkah Handbook by Jacqueline Jules (+Podcast)
In this Hanukkah manual for the contemporary Jewish family, holiday history, rituals, activities, songs, and recipes provide tools for creating meaningful family moments in the light of the menorah. The book includes brief reflections...
The Clever Dreidel’s Chanukah Wishes: Picture Book That Teaches Kids about Gratitude and Compassion by Sarah Mazor
Illustrator: Mary Kusumkali Biswas The Clever Dreidel’s Chanukah Wishes is a beautiful, sentimental, and hopeful book that will resonate with all tender and loving hearts who wish and pray for a better world.The clever...
Why is Great Grandma So Sad? Discovering the Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child by Susan Heagy
Though this book is written for children ages 7 to 14, it is also intended for any age of people who have difficulty reading anything having to do with the Holocaust of WWII. This...
Anne Frank and the Remembering Tree by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Erika Steiskal
In most windows I saw people working and children playing. When the soldiers came, people began covering their windows, so I couldn’t see inside anymore. But the tiny attic window of the narrow brick...
Dear Santa, Love Rachel Rosenstein by Amanda Peet and Andrea Troyer
Rachel Rosenstein is determined to celebrate Christmas this year—and the fact that her family is Jewish is not going to stop her. In a series of hilarious and heartwarming mishaps, Rachel writes a letter...
Podcast: Enough with the Holocaust Books for Children!
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, features a long and juicy virtual panel discussion about the Holocaust’s place in Jewish children’s literature. It’s called “Enough with...
