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Book Review | Hanukkah Moon
by Deborah daCosta
Score: 4
Illustrated by Mosz, Gosia
© 2007 Kar-Ben Publishing
What a delightful, beautiful, charming and multicultural Hanukkah story. Aunt Luisa is from Mexico and is celebrating Hanukkah and has invited her niece, Isobel, to celebrate with her at her home. Apparently, in Mexico they celebrate the Hanukkah Moon, which is the Rosh Hodesh moon during Hanukkah. While Isobel [...]
Book Review | Menorah Under the Sea
by Esther Susan Heller
Score: 3
© 2009 Kar-Ben Publishing
Jewish educators, teachers, librarians…this book proves that arts and crafts lessons are well worth your time and energy! Here is a wondrous book about a marine ecologist, doing research in Antarctica. Because it is summer time there, the sun never sets. Nevertheless, it is the first night of Hanukkah, he is [...]
Book Review | Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
by Eric Kimmel
Score: 5
Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
©1985 Holiday House
If I was stuck on a desert island during Hanukkah and could only bring one children’s Hanukkah book with me, I would bring this book. Classic, timeless and always enjoyable, great for reading out loud or reading alone, Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins is hands down my favorite, [...]
Book Review | Hanukkah Haiku
by Harriet Ziefert
Score: 3
Illustrated by Karla Gudeon.
© 2008 Blue Apple Books
This is a unique Hanukkah book for a number of reasons. First, for each night of Hanukkah there is a lovely Haiku which charmingly addresses – as only a Haiku can – a specific Hanukkah custom. You and your students, or family members, will enjoy counting the syllables [...]
Book Review | Passover Around the World
by Tami Lehman-Wilzig
Score: 3
Illustrated by Elizabeth Wolf.
© 2007, Kar-Ben Publishing.
This is a lovely book explaining the different ways that Passover is celebrated in various countries throughout the world. The customs are so varied that I believe that matzah may be the only unifying factor in the celebrations! Nonetheless this book provides students with a number of enlightening versions [...]
