Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Book Review | Psalms for Young Children
by Marie-Helene Delval
Score: 4
This is a beautiful book to introduce young children to the Book of Psalms. The Psalms themselves have been well-adapted using language and concepts that children can understand. The accompanying illustrations are quite beautiful and assist in defining the meaning of the text.
I always search a book like this, especially one from a Christian publishing [...]
Book Review | Let My People Go!
by Tilda Balsley
Score: 2
Illustrated by Ilene Richard
© 2008, Kar-Ben Publishing.
At my house, the plagues are the high point of our Seder. Water turns to blood, frogs fly, and hailstones soar – you get the picture. This book would be great to use during that section of the Haggadah especially with younger children and their families. It is highly [...]
Book Review | The Bedtime Shema: A Goodnight Book
by Sarah Gershman
Score: 4
This is a beautifully illustrated, wonderfully unique book for very young children and their families. I wish it had been around when my children were younger, as it would have been tremendously helpful in teaching us about Jewish bedtime prayer rituals and soothing some of the fears my young children had about being alone in [...]
Book Review | As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom
by Richard Michelson
Score: 5
Illustrated by Raul Colón.
© 2008 – Knopf Books for Young Readers.
Winner of the 2008 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Younger Readers. This is an outstanding book about how Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel grew up on different continents at different times yet with similar experiences, and how those experiences caused their lives [...]
Book Review | Harvest of Light
by Allison Ofanansky
Score: 4
Photographs by Eliyahu Alpem.
© 2008. Kar-Ben/Lerner
More than just a Hanukkah book, this could also be shelved with the science collection as it is a fabulous story of how olives become oil. What better way to share the story of the Miracle of Hanukkah than by showing children why the eight days were so important and [...]
