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Looking for a good Jewish children's book?
Here are books for Jewish children - the little saplings growing up
around us olive trees. Many Jewish children's books focus on the holidays, and
of those, many focus on Hanukah. We have nothing against Hanukah, of course, but
it really is a relatively minor holiday on the Jewish calendar. Still, in
America, many parents find it necessary to give Hanukah a boost to compete with
that other winter holiday, and the books are good.
We humbly suggest you try some of the holiday books, and also browse around
to see what else might interest your child.
The good thing - well, one of the good things - about Jewish children's books
is that many of them come in series. If you have an avid reader at home, this is
no small matter. Find a good series, and you've found five or ten good books
that your Jewish child will like. The B.Y. Times series, some of which you'll see
below, is great for Jewish girls familiar with an observant lifestyle. The
K'Tonton series is a delightful set of books about a Jewish Tom Thumb.
In addition to stories, you can also find books of Jewish prayer and
religious themes for Jewish kids. There are now also good books on various
aspects of Jewish history suitable for children of different ages. While we've
put them here in the children's section, some of the first Hebrew books for kids
would do nicely for grownups who are just starting out and need help in building
a basic vocabulary.
In that light, we've included a few books on the Holocaust for
children. Though this is naturally a subject that you will need to introduce
thoughtfully to your children, it is also one that they will need to know. There
are several good books now that tell the story from children's perspectives.
Just make sure to pick age-appropriate books for your child.
As for Jewish parenting, we do have a
separate page devoted to the subject, but we couldn't resist including a few
books on raising Jewish kids here as well.
The Aleph Bet Word Book: A Pictorial Hebrew-English Dictionary for Children
(The Artscroll Youth Series) |
Amazing Adventures of the Jewish People |
Great Moments in Jewish History |
Let's Learn Hebrew: Picture Dictionary |
My First 100 Hebrew Words: A Young Person's Dictionary of Judaism |
A Mountain of Blintzes |
Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas |
Create Your Own Jewish 2002-2003 Calendar |
The Children We Remember: Photographs from the Archives of
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority,
Jerusalem, Israel |
The Broken Mirror: A Novella |
The Matzah Man: A Passover Story |
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins |
On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (Aladdin Picture Books) |
The Cure |
Queen Esther Saves Her People |
Pearl's Passover: A Family Celebration Through Stories,
Recipes, Crafts, and Songs |
The Magic Dreidels: A Hanukkah Story |
The Shabbat Box |
World's Birthday: A Rosh Hashana Story |
The Magic Menorah: A Modern Chanukah Tale |
The Trees of the Dancing Goats |
The Keeping Quilt |
The Jewish Family Fun Book: Holiday Projects, Everyday
Activities, and Travel Ideas with Jewish Themes |
Let's Nosh |
Bread Givers |
My First Hanukkah Board Book |
The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir |
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss,
Vienna, Austria to New York, 1938 (Dear America) |
A Child's First Book of Jewish Holidays |
Sweet Words to God; A Child's Book of Jewish Prayers |
To Raise a Jewish Child: A Guide for Parents |
When Children Ask About God: A Guide for Parents Who Don't Always
Have All the Answers |
Thank You, God!: A Jewish Child's Book of Prayers |
Hanukah Sing Along for Kids |
Hanukah in My House |
The Eight Nights of Hanukah (Petites Ser.) |
Hanukah Pop-Up |
Lights: A Fable About Hanukah |
The World's Most Popular Hanukah Songs |
Eight Nights of Hanukah |
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Hanukah Money |
Hanukah Money |
Are You Ready for Hanukah? (A Hanukah Surprise Book) |
Bright Sparks: The Hanukah Party |
My Own Hanukah Story |
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Let's Shop for Hanukah |
A Tale of Two Wagons & Other Chanuka Stories (The Yom Tov
Series) |
The Jewish Family Fun Book: Holiday Projects, Everyday
Activities, and Travel Ideas with Jewish Themes |
The Eight Nights of Hanukkah |
The Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen: Seventy Ways to Have Fun
With Your Kids and Make Your Family's Celebrations Special |
Crafts for Hanukkah (Holiday Crafts for Kids) |
A Kid's Kosher Cooking Cruise |
When a Grandparent Dies: A Kid's Own Remembering Workbook for
Dealing With Shiva and the Year Beyond |
Kids Explore America's Jewish Heritage (Kids Explore) |
Jewish Kids' Catalog |
The Essential Jewish Trivia Book for Kids |
Jerusalem 3000: Kids Discover the City of Gold! |
Jewish Sci-Fi Stories for Kids |
Jewish Humor Stories for Kids |
Kings and Things: 20 Jewish Plays for Kids 8 to 18 |
The Year My Whole Country Turned Jewish: A Time Travel Adventure
in Medieval Khazaria With the Steppe Kids |
Chocolate Child: Portraits of a Black Jew |
I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust (A Puffin Book) |
The Cure |
Escape from Egypt: A Novel |
The Return |
The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes |
In God's Name |
God's Paintbrush |
But God Remembered: Stories of Women from Creation to the
Promised Land |
The Really Fun Family Haggadah |
Kids Love Israel Israel Loves Kids: A Travel Guide for
Families |
Party Time (B.Y. Times, No 6) |
The New B. Y. Times No. 18: Who's Who |
Fire! |
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To the Rescue! |
Reward, One Million Dollars |
Spring Fever (B.Y. Times No. 5) |
Jen Starts Over No. 17 |
The New Kids (The B.Y. Times No 10) |
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The 'I-Can't-Cope-Club' (The B.Y.Times Kid Sisters No 1) |
Number the Stars |
The Devil's Arithmetic |
The Best of K'Tonton: The Greatest Adventures in the Life of the
Jewish Thumbling, KTonton Ben Baruch Reuben, Collected for the 50th Anniversary |
K'Tonton's Yom Kippur Kitten |
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K'Tonton's Sukkot Adventure |
K'tonton in Israel (K'tonton in Israel Read-Along Book &
Cassette Series) |
K'Tonton in the Circus: A Hanukkah Adventure |
K'Tonton on an Island in the Sea: A Hitherto Unreported Episode
in the Life of the Jewish Thumbling, K'Tonton Ben Baruch Reuben |
K'Tonton in the Circus |
The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish
Tradition |
A Treasury of Jewish Stories (A Treasury of Stories Series) |
Illustrated Jewish Bible For Children |
Runaway Dreidel! |
Classic Bible Stories for Jewish Children |
The Jewish Children's Bible: Exodus |
The Jar of Fools: Eight Hanukkah Stories from Chelm |
Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children Who Escaped
the Holocaust on the Kindertransport |
Days of Awe: Stories for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur |
Good Night Little Lambs - Jewish Bedtime Stories |
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Rachel the Clever and Other Jewish Folktales |
The Kids' Catalog of Passover: A Worldwide Celebration of
Stories, Songs, Customs, Crafts, Food, and Fun |
Jewish Detective Stories for Kids |
Jewish Love Stories for Kids |
The Always Prayer Shawl (Picture Puffins) |
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A Bridge to Prayer: The Jewish Worship Workbook |
A Prayer for the Earth: The Story of Naamah, Noah's Wife |
When a Jew Prays (A Jewish Value Series) |
Sukkot: A Family Seder |
Blessed Are You: Traditional Everyday Hebrew Prayers |
Masada: The Last Fortress |
Secrets in the House of Delgado |
Speed of Light |
Alexandra's Scroll |
Daniel's Story |
One-Hundred-and-One Read-Aloud Jewish Stories |
The World's Birthday: A Rosh Hashanah Story |
The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion |
Journeys With Elijah: Eight Tales of the Prophet |
The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of
Magic |
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Jewish Children's Books
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