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A Is For Abraham
Rich Michelson and Ron Mazellan

From Abraham to Zaydee, and from ancient times to modern day, A is for Abraham: A Jewish Family Alphabet encompasses the history of Jewish traditions and customs and how they are practiced today. Following the alphabet, a poem identifies the letter topic while sidebar text provides background...

Item No. 9781585363223
$17.95
 Podwal Bookplate & A Passover Haggadah
Wiesel, Elie

Free book plate autographed by Mark Podwal with purchase.

With this Passover Haggadah, Elie Wiesel and his friend Mark Podwal invite you to join them for the Passover Seder -- the most festive event of the Jewish calendar. Read each year at the Seder table, the Haggadah recounts the miraculous tale of the liberation of the Children of Israel from slavery...
Item No. 9780671799960
$16.99
Beautiful Moon: A Child's Prayer
Tonya Bolden

Sale! Was $16.95, now only $7.98!

A young boy wakes. He has forgotten to say his prayers. Outside his window, a beautiful harvest moon illuminates the city around him and its many inhabitants. As the moon slowly makes its way across the heavens, the boy offers a simple prayer for the homeless, the hungry, and others.

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Item No. 9781419707926
$7.98
Beni's Tiny Tales: Around the Year in Jewish Holidays - To Be Autographed 11/12
Breskin Zalben, Jane
Join Beni and his family as they celebrate a year in Jewish Holidays, including all their favorite craft activities, recipes, songs, and stories for each occasion. The perfect gift book that gives all year long.

Chronicling a full year of Jewish festivities--from Rosh Hashanah through...

Item No. 9780316331777
$21.99
Bring Back the Babka
Wolpin, Marilyn

  Staff Pick

"A food-filled mystery that celebrates the diversity of Jewish food and the Jewish community. Readers will be hungry by the story's end!" - School Library Journal

When brothers search for their mama's missing babka in their diverse Jewish neighborhood, they find other...

Item No. 9798888590096
$9.99
Celebrate Passover- Paperback
Heiligman, Deborah
The most celebrated holiday in the Jewish year, Passover commemorates the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt to freedom over 3,500 years ago. This colorful book explores the many forms that this weeklong celebration takes worldwide. Deborah Heiligman's rich text details the long, lavish meals...
Item No. 9781426306297
$6.95
Daniel and the Lord of Lions
Gloria Jean Pinkney
Gloria Jean Pinkney, well known author, retells the story of Daniel's faith in the face of great danger.

 

Item No. 9780687652358
$17.00
Golem
Wisniewski, David

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A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague. Retold from traditional sources and accompanied by masterful cut-paper illustrations. "The cut-paper collages are exquisitely produced and exceedingly dramatic. There is menace...
Item No. 9780395726181
$18.95
Here is the World
Newman, Lesléa
Lesléa Newman's picture book Here Is the World is a joyous celebration of the Jewish holidays throughout the year for young children that's "both lovely and eminently useful" (Kirkus Reviews)--illustrated by Susan Gal.

Here is the world, ever changing and new,...

Item No. 9781419711855
$18.99
Language of Angels: Story About the Reinvention of Hebrew
Michelson, Richard
2018 Sydney Taylor Book Award
2017 National Jewish Book Award

In 1885, few Jews in Israel used the holy language of their ancestors, and Hebrew was in danger of being lost--until Ben Zion and his father got involved. Through the help of his father and a community of children, Ben...

Item No. 9781580896368
$16.99
Meet the Hamantaschen
Silberberg, Alan
You've met the latkes, you've met the matzah...now it's time to meet the hamantaschen in this zany Purim story!

There's a problem with Purim!

The Purim play is about to start, but the megillah is missing! Without the scroll that recounts the Purim story, how can the show go on...

Item No. 9780593351574
$17.99
Miracles of Passover
Hanft, Josh
The miracle of the Passover story comes to life in Seymour Chwast's illustrations. Starting with Moses' birth and his mission from God and moving through the ten plagues and the exodus from Egypt, this book celebrates this important holiday and explains the significance of the Seder.
Item No. 9781593546007
$15.95
Moses
Hodges, Margaret

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Revered as God's chosen leader, Moses weathered countless tests of faith as he guided his people out of slavery. This elegant telling of his inspiring story captures all the power and poetry that marked his life, from his harrowing infancy hidden in a basket in the bulrushes to his final days as he...
Item No. 9780152009465
$16.00
My First Passover
dePaola, Tomie
Passover is a time for families and friends to celebrate their faith and shared history. Tomie dePaola's simple text and beautiful illustrations provide insight into this special holiday for young readers.
Item No. 9780448447919
$5.99
Noah's Ark
Pinkney, Jerry
For 40 days and 40 nights rain poured from the heavens, enveloping the world. Only Noah had been warned by God of the great floodand only Noah could save life on earth. This powerful story of salvation has fascinated people of all ages for centuries. Now, four-time Caldecott Honor-recipient Jerry...
Item No. 9781587172014
$17.99
Noah's Ark
Smith, E Boyd
Perfect for reading aloud, this is the finest work of E. Boyd Smith, a noted children's book illustrator of the early twentieth century. It recounts the timeless tale of Noah's ark and the aftermath of the Great Flood with delicately colored full-page illustrations. Readers of all ages will delight...
Item No. 9780486477459
$15.00
Noah's Ark
Spier, Peter
The bee and the fox, the sheep and the ox--two of each kind trudged aboard Noah's famous vessel. Peter Spier uses his own translation of a seventeenth-century Dutch poem about this most famous menagerie.

"The colors are lovely. The scenes are unbelievably detailed...the book is a triumph, the...

Item No. 9780440406938
$7.99
Pearl's Eight Days of Chanukah
Zalben, Jane Breskin
Chanukah's here, and Pearl is looking forward to celebrating it with her family. But there's one problem -- Pearl's just found out that her cousins Harry and Sophie will be joining them for all eight nights of Chanukah, and she fears the worst. After all, it was Sophie who once put a latke on Pearl...
Item No. 9781442472945
$22.99
Saints Lives & Illuminations - Hardcover
Ruth Sanderson

Saints: Lives and Illuminations presents the stories of forty remarkable people -- martyrs, hermits, miracle workers, scholars, and evangelists -- who were the pioneers of the early Church and who, in the first millennium, spread the Christian faith to the rest of the world.

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Item No. 9780802852205
$20.00
Saints Lives & Illuminations - Softcover
Ruth Sanderson

"Saints: Lives and Illuminations" presents the stories of forty remarkable people - martyrs, hermits, miracle workers, scholars, and evangelists - who were the pioneers of the early Church and who, in the first millennium, spread the Christian faith to the rest of the world. With brief...

Item No. 9780802853325
$10.00
Always Prayer Shawl-PB
Oberman, Sheldon
"Some things change. And some things don't."
That simple truth, whispered in a synagogue, echoes throughout this deeply felt picture book. Adam, a young Jewish boy in czarist Russia, must flee his ancestral home at the outbreak of the revolution. Before he sets sail for a new land, his...
Item No. 9781590783320
$10.95
The White Ram
Gerstein, Mordicai

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Made on the sixth day of the Creation, a white ram waits patiently in the Garden of Eden. The other animals leave one by one, but the ram waits and waits until he is needed to fulfill God's will by sacrificing himself to save a boy's life. Full color.
Item No. 9780823418978
$16.95
Too Young For Yiddish
Michelson, Richard
Young Aaron wants to learn how to speak to the chickens like his Zayde (grandfather). Zayde's stories and his many books, with their mysterious worlds and their guarded secrets, fascinate Aaron. But always Aaron is too young to learn Yiddish. Zayde thinks that Aaron, and all the new generation of...
Item No. 9780881061185
$15.95
Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tail
Newman, Leslea

2021 Sydney Taylor Award Winner

Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award, Welcoming Elijah by celebrated author Lesléa Newman, unites a young boy and a stray kitten in a warm, lyrical story about Passover, family, and friendship.

Inside, a boy and his family sit around the dinner...

Item No. 9781580898829
$17.99
Yo Soy Muslim
Gonzales, Mark
A Huffington Post Most Powerful Children's Book of 2017

From Muslim and Latino poet Mark Gonzales comes a touching and lyrical picture book about a parent who encourages their child to find joy and pride in all aspects of their multicultural identity.

Dear little one...

Item No. 9781481489362
$18.99