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Book Review | Here Come the Purim Players
by Barbara Cohen
Score: 3.5
Illustrated by Shoshana Mekibel
Text © 1984, Barbara Cohen. Illustrations © 1998 UAHC Press.
All the Jews living in the Prague ghetto hear the announcement, “the Purim Players are coming!” A troupe of excellent entertainers has come to share a Purim Shpiel with the entire town. As they entertain with their interpretation of the Book of Esther, [...]
Book Review | It’s Purim Time!
by Latifa Berry Kropf
Score: 3
Photographs by Tod Cohen
© 2005, KarBen Publishing, Inc.
The little preschool shana punim return to celebrate Purim in their classroom. They dress up in costume, have hamentashen for their snack and deliver shalach manot to the preschool staff. While listening to their teacher read the Megillah, they shake their hand-made groggers so loud the name of [...]
Book Review | Mystery Bear: A Purim Story
by Leone Adelson
Score: 3
Illustrated by Naomi Howland
© 2004, Clarion Books.
A little bear cub wakes up from his winter’s nap and finds he is starving. Not wanting to wake up his mother, he leaves the den to search for food. At the edge of the forest he smells a tasty aroma and sees a crowd of people entering a [...]
Book Review | The Purim Surprise
by Lesley Simpson
Score: 2.5
Illustrated by Peter Church
© 2004, KarBen Publishing, Inc.
Naomi is sure that her mother has forgotten her seventh birthday. After all, they just moved into their new home, her birthday and Purim are three days away and instead of unpacking boxes, they have been baking Hamantashen and putting together Shalach Manot baskets for people they don’t [...]
Book Review | The Legend of Freedom Hill
by Linda Jacobs Altman
Score: 3
Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright & Ying-Hwa Hu
© 2000, Lee & Low Books.
During the Gold Rush of the 1850’s, Rosabel and Sophie are best friends because they are both outsiders. Rosabel is African American and Sophie is Jewish. A PJ Library book.
Grade Level: K- 3rd
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