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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 Ark

    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             Holiday Series  

    Topek                      Noah Stories  

    Kimmelman              Sing, Dance, Remember

    Schwartz                  The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic

                                                

    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 Eldridge Street

 

   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 Denmark

   Frank                        Diary of a Young Girl

   Hest                          Love You, Soldier

+ Levine                       Hana’s Suitcase

   Levitin                       Journey to America

+ 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 AMERICA

    Altman                     The Legend of Freedom Hill

    Bierman                    Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America

    Cohen                      Molly’s Pilgrim

    Ducharme                 The Treasure in the Tiny Blue Tin

+  Hesse                       Letters From Rifka

    Hest                         When Jessie Came Across the Sea

    Hirschfelder              Photo Odyssey: Solomon Carvalho’s Remarkable Western Adventure

    Lasky                       Dreams of the Golden Country

    Levitin                      The Singing Mountain

    Matas                       The War Within

+  Rael                         Rivka’s First Thanksgiving

+  Rosen                      Speed of Light

    Ross                         Buba Leah and her Paper Children

+  Taylor                      All-of-a-Kind Family Series

 

 

ISRAEL

    Alexander                 Behold the Trees

    Carmi                       Samir and Yonaton

    Edwards                   Chicken Man

    Manushkin                Come, Let Us Be Joyful: The Story of Hava Nagila

    Miklowitz                 Masada: The Last Fortress

    Rouss                       Sammy Spider’s First Trip to Israel

    Silverman                 Israel: The Founding of a Modern Nation

    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 Delancey Street

     Tabach                    Joseph Had A Little Overcoat

 

 

Prepared by Ellen G. Cole, Librarian, Levine Library, Temple Isaiah, Los Angeles, CA;

President, AJLSC; Past Chair, AJL Sydney Taylor Book Awards Committee; Co-Editor, Children’s Literature, AJL Newsletter.   Revised November 2003.