When nine-year-old Amy offers to help her grandmother recover her worn and stained dining room chairs, she is surprised to learn that her grandmother likes them just the way they are. Grandma's loving explanation is an amusingand delightful tapestry of Cherished Memories.

Cherished Memories

Sylvia A. Rouss

Apples & Honey Press

Come join Farmer Kobi and his animals for a hilarious Hanukkah dinner. Kobi's well-mannered goats, donkey, and sheep know just how to play host, and they give Polly, Kobi's Hanukkah guest, a gracious welcome. But when Polly isn't sure animals belong in a house, what will happen next? Find out with laugh-out-loud pictures and puns that are sure to entertain all readers. As donkey says: Hee-Haw-Yahoo!

Farmer Kobi's Hanukkah Match

Children's Books

Rostoker-Gruber, Karen

Animals

Leah lives high up in an apartment building overlooking the city, and dreams of having a sukkah of her own. But there s no place to build it. With some help from the neighbors, Leah and her friend Ari find a way to have their own sukkah on the roof. An author s note at the end explores the Jewish value of kehilla, community, and invites children to think about why kehilla is important and what activities they can do to build kehilla.

Sky High Sukkah

Packer, Rachel Orenstein

Literature & Fiction

Bam! It's a speedy drive over second base. I jump and catch it. My whole team shouts, 'Jacob, you saved the game!'; It's Jacob's third year in Little League, and he's never missed a game. The championship game is coming up, and his team is counting on him. But then he finds out the game is scheduled on the holiday of Yom Kippur. The game is important. and Jacob has a decision to make. Jacob's story was inspired by the Los Angeles Dodgers' star pitcher Sandy Koufax, who sat out a 1965 World Series game on Yom Kippur. He was a hero to people everywhere who have made difficult decisions in order to observe their religious holidays.

Yom Kippur Shortstop

Adler, David

Meet the people who make matzah by hand or in factories and see how they keep to the strict 18-minute time limit, mirroring the Israelites race against time over 2,000 years ago! Find out how making matzah is more than just mixing flour and water it shows us the value of working together! Bake your own matzah, decorate an Elijah s cup and grow your own greens. Watch it all unfold with more than 100 stunning photos that reveal a fascinating world behind the scenes. This is the second in a series of photographic picture books. The first book is How it's Made: Torah Scroll, which was published in Fall 2016.

How It's Made: Matzah

Ofanansky, Allison

Holidays & Celebrations

Last year, Jacob and his family had been in Russia, but this year they were in the new land of Argentina. Jacob hoped his new friend Benito would join them for the seder. Would he? Could a Passover meal here, with cowboys, chickens and horses, feel like home, too? Sydney Taylor Award-winning author Barbara Diamond Goldin gives us a compelling peak into a remarkable chapter in Jewish history in this historically-based, fictional story about a family integrating into the community of Argentina in the late 1800 s. Gina Capaldi brings it to life with spectacular and painterly artwork. A note for families is included that describes the history of how in the 1800s, some Russian Jews fled persecution, and immigrated to Argentina. There they settled on ranches and built homes and a community that combined the traditional culture of their Russian homeland with their new land s customs.

Passover Cowboy

Goldin, Barbara Diamond

Biographies

We are brothers, sisters, grandparents, friends. We are smiling, laughing, crying, cheering. We are all ages, colors, lifestyles, and abilities. We are the face of Jewish life today.

We Are Jewish Faces

House, Behrman

Religion & Spirituality

It's Hanukkah, and Hannah Hartman can't stop Hiccupping! Her neighbors try to help by sharing their sometimes silly, always fun, remedies: "Drink pickle juice backwards," says Mr. Brown, while Señora Rivera gives Hannah a wet, red string to place on her forehead. Hannah tries ginger ale, breathing into a paper bag, and even slathering peanut butter on her latkes! Nothing works. How will she be able to perform her solo at the Hebrew school play if her hiccups don't go away?

Hannah's Hanukkah Hiccups

Silva, Shanna

Arts, Music & Photography

Kukurikuuu!
 squawks the rooster. 
 Meowwwww!
 yowls the cat. 
 ZZZZZZzzzzzzz
 buzzes the mosquito... 
 It is the end of a hot, dry summer, and Mrs. Strauss just can't fall asleep. 
 "SHEKET! QUIET!" 
 But when at last she falls asleep, something wakes her up again...something her little village in Israel has been waiting for all summer long. 'A lovely peak into life in Israel' --Kirkus Reviews ' . . . fills a giant gap in Jewish children's literature.' --Jewish Book Council 'Unreservedly recommended' --The Midwest Book review

Fast Asleep in a Little Village in Israel

MacLeod, Jennifer Tzivia

From a young age, Regina Jonas loved to read stories from the Bible. She loved to read Hebrew. She wanted to be a rabbi. 
 There had never been a woman rabbi before, and some people said, 'You should learn to cook and sew like the other girls.' But Regina persisted. 
 They said, 'Don't make trouble.' But Regina persisted. 
 They said, 'Women are not smart enough.' Regina heard, but still she persisted. 
 Finally, in 1935, Regina Jonas became the first woman ever ordained as a rabbi. Her story inspires us to pursue our dreams and to persist even in the face of great challenges. 'Evocative, inspiring, and uplifting' --Kirkus Starred Review 'Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso s beautiful and motivating book shows, why it is so necessary to tell young Jewish girls and boys the amazing story of the first female rabbi.' --Rabbi Elisa Klapheck, author of Fräulein Rabbiner Jonas. The Story of the First Woman Rabbi (2004) Regina Jonas had a dream, to become a rabbi. Hard work and persistence made that that dream come true. Regina Persisted: The Untold Story will inspire children everywhere who also dream 'I will be what I will be.' --Pamela S. Nadell, author of Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women s Ordination, 1889-1985 'This is a touching story about persistence and overcoming challenges to fulfill a lifelong dream, something that Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso has in common with Rabbi Regina Jonas. Both followed their heart, did not give up, despite being told they couldn't, and set the stage for thousands of women to inspire and impact the Jewish community. Thank you Rabbi Eisenberg Sasso for telling the courageous story of Regina Jonas, and by doing so, bringing to light the story of those of us who have persisted.' --Rabba Sara Hurwitz, co-founder and President of Yeshivat Maharat, Ordained by Rabbi Avi Weiss and Rabbi Daniel Sperber

Regina Persisted

Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg

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