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YOUR HOME JEWISH LIBRARY FOR CHILDREN
[+ Marks winners of the AJL Sydney Taylor Book Award
for Children ]
BIBLE STORIES (in order of appearance)
Lester When the Beginning Began
Swartz In
Our Image: God’s First Creatures
Gerstein Noah and the Great Flood
Janisch Noah’s
Lenski Mr. and Mrs. Noah
Singer Why Noah Chose the Dove
Wildsmith Joseph
Gormley Miriam
Rosenfeld
A
Little Girl Named Miriam
Gerstein Jonah and the Two Great Fish
Renberg King Solomon and the Bee
Gelman Queen Esther Saves Her People
Manushkin Daughters
of Fire
Ross
Daughters of Eve
Seeger Turn! Turn! Turn!
BIOGRAPHY
+ Reef Sigmund Freund: Pioneer of
the Mind
Rubin Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children
of Terezin
COMMANDMENTS
AND ETHICS
Feinstein Tough Questions Jews Ask
+ Kimmel Gershon’s
Monster
Kornblatt Understanding Buddy
Nerlove Ten Commandments for Jewish Children
Prose You Never Know
+ Schur The Peddler’s Gift
FAMILY
+ Geras My Grandmother’s Stories
Hautzig A Picture of Grandmother
FOLKTALES
Fowler The
Bachelor and the Bean
Hirsh Could Anything Be Worse?
+
Jaffe The Uninvited
Guest
Prose Dybbuk: A Story Made In Heaven
Schwartz A Coat for the Moon and Other Jewish
Tales
Schwartz Invisible
Kingdoms : Jewish Tales of Angels, Spirits and Demons
HOLIDAYS (grouped in Jewish holiday
order, then alphabetically by author)
ANTHOLOGIES
Fishman\Hall
Topek
Noah
Stories
Kimmelman Sing, Dance, Remember
Schwartz The Day the
Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish
SHABBAT
Herman How Yussel
Caught the Gefilte Fish
Jaffe Tales for the Seventh Day: A
Collection of Sabbath Stories
Schur Day of Delight
+ Schwartz Mrs. Moskowitz and
the Sabbath Candlesticks
Schwartz & Rush The Sabbath Lion
Wasserman Too Much of A Good Thing
HIGH HOLIDAYS
Goldin World’s Birthday
Silverman When the Chickens Went on
Strike
+ Cohen Yussel’s
Prayer
Siegel The Magic of Kol Nidre
SUKKOT AND SIMCHAT TORAH
Goldin Night Lights
Lepon Hillel Builds a
House
Polacco Tikvah
Means Hope
+ Rael When Zayde
Danced on
HANUKKAH
Chaikin Alexandra’s Scroll: Story
of the First Hanukkah
Cohn The Christmas
Menorahs
Feder Judah Who Always Said No
Kimmel Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
Kimmel When Mindy Saved Hanukkah
Newman Runaway Dreidel
Zalben The
Magic Menorah
PURIM
Schotter Purim Play
Silverman Raisel’s
Riddle
PASSOVER
Cohen Carp in the Bathtub
Howland The Matzah Man
Hildebrandt This
Is Our Seder
Medoff The
Mouse in the Matzah Factory
HOLOCAUST
Bunting One Candle
Deedy The
Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of
Frank Diary
of a Young Girl
Hest Love
You, Soldier
+ Levine Hana’s Suitcase
Levitin Journey to
+ Lowry Number
the Stars
Maguire The Good Liar
Patz Who Was the Woman Who
Wore the Hat?
+ Stillerman Nine Spoons
+ Vos The Key is Lost
+ Yolen The Devil’s Arithmetic
IMMIGRATION
& ASSIMILATION IN JEWISH LIFE IN
Altman The Legend of Freedom Hill
Bierman Journey to
Cohen Molly’s
Pilgrim
Ducharme The
Treasure in the Tiny Blue Tin
+
Hest When
Jessie Came Across the Sea
Hirschfelder Photo Odyssey: Solomon Carvalho’s Remarkable Western Adventure
Lasky Dreams of the Golden
Country
Levitin The
Matas The
War Within
+ Rael Rivka’s
First Thanksgiving
+ Rosen Speed of Light
Ross Buba Leah and her Paper Children
+
Alexander Behold
the Trees
Carmi Samir and Yonaton
Edwards Chicken
Man
Manushkin Come, Let Us Be Joyful: The
Story of Hava Nagila
Miklowitz
Rouss Sammy Spider’s First Trip
to
Silverman
Waldman Two
Brothers
Waldman The
Never-Ending Greeness
LIFE CYCLES
+ Sofer Shalom Haver
Wilkowski Baby’s Bris
YIDDISH TAM /
HUMOR
Fagan The Market Wedding
+ Gilman Something
from Nothing
+ Hershenhorn Chicken Soup by Heart
+ Oberman Always Prayer Shawl
+ Polacco Keeping Quilt: 10th
Anniversary Ed.
Prose Angel’s
Mistake: Stories of Chelm
Rael What Zessie
Saw on
Tabach Joseph Had A Little Overcoat
Prepared by
Ellen G. Cole, Librarian, Levine Library,
President, AJLSC; Past Chair, AJL Sydney Taylor Book Awards
Committee; Co-Editor, Children’s Literature, AJL Newsletter. Revised
November 2003.