The Promise by Bridget Hodder and Fawzia Gilani-Williams
Illustrator: Cinzia Battistel A garden is a prayer. It is also a promise. In a Moroccan village, a Jewish boy and a Muslim boy are best friends. Jacob and Hassan play together every day...
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Jewish Mindfulness for Kids by Blanca Sissa
Illustrator: Camila Carrossine The exercises in this book use everyday Jewish items to inspire mindfulness in children. Imagine you have a piece of fresh challah in one hand and a spoonful of hot chicken...
A Book About Bubkes by Leslie Kimmelman
Illustrator: Roxana de Rond This is a book about bupkes: nothing, zero, zilch. Sometimes, though, what looks like nothing turns out to be the most important thing of all. An empty garden seems like...
Dream by Dream: The Story of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise by Geri Kolesar
Illustrator: Sofia Moore As a child, Isaac Mayer Wise loved to study. Words were like magic keys that could unlock new worlds. He had big ideas and big dreams. Becoming a rabbi, he thought...
Nothing Could Stop Her by Rona Arato
The Courageous Life of Ruth Gruber Illustrator: Isabel Muñoz Ruth Gruber didn’t want to live an ordinary life, and she wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. Born to a Jewish American family in 1911,...
Deborah’s Tree by Jane Yolen
Illustrator: Cosei Kawa Deborah has a gift; she can see the future As Deborah grows up, so do the date palms that surround her home. Under these trees, people come from far and wide...
My Name Is Hamburger by Jacqueline Jules
Trudie Hamburger is the only Jewish kid living in the small southern town of Colburn in 1962. Nobody else at her school has a father who speaks with a German accent or a last...
Luis de Torres Sails to Freedom by Tami Lehman-Wilzig
Illustrator: Oliver Averill Luis de Torres is a secret Jew, a Catholic convert, who, in his heart, remains Jewish. When the Inquisition comes and Jews are forced to leave Spain, Luis decides to join...
Moses and the Runaway Lamb by Jacqueline Jules
Illustrator: Eleanor Rees Howell When a small lamb scampers away from her flock, the young shepherd Moses wonders whether he should chase after her or let her fend for herself in the wilderness. He...
The Blue Glass Heart by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Illustrator: Chiara Fedele When Sarah accidentally breaks Bubbe’s blue glass bowl, she sets a heart-shaped piece of blue glass on an adventure, touching the lives of children around the world, until it finally―remarkably―finds its...
