The Pelham Jewish Center 451 Esplanade, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 (914) 738-6008 [Phone] www.thepjc.org Bibliography of Recommended Children’s Literature LIFE CYCLE Author Title Theme Grade Level Karen Ackerman Just Like Max Aging, Memories All Karen Ackerman Song and Dance Man Aging, Memories Lower Elementary Aliki The Two of Them Aging, Death All Itzik Becher Living Traditions Life Cycle Upper Elementary A Celebration of Jewish Life Traditions, World Jewry, Israel Eve Bunting Fly Away Home Homelessness Upper Elementary Leo Buscaglia The Fall of Freddie the Leaf Life and Death All Ethel Clifford The Remembering Box Memories, Death Upper Elementary Barbara Cohen The King of the Seventh Bar Mitzvah Upper Elementary Grade Miriam Cohen Best Friends Friendship All Martin Elant Bar Mitzvah Lessons Bar Mitzvah Upper Elementary Mem Fox Wilfrid, Gordon, McDonald, Memories, Aging All Partridge Janet Gallant My Brother’s Bar Mitzvah Bar Mitzvah Upper Elementary Ellie Gellman Justin’s Hebrew Name Naming Upper Elementary A. Goldstein My Very Own Jewish Home Life Cycle, Symbols All Phyllis Grode Sophie’s Name Naming, Memories Upper Elementary Esther Hautzig A Gift for Mama Gifts, Mother’s Day Upper Elementary Linda Heller The Castle on Hester Street Memories All Amy Hest Fancy Aunt Jess Marriage Upper Elementary Nancy Karowsky Grandma’s Soup Aging Upper Elementary Alice Lanckton The Bar Mitzvah Mother’s Bar Mitzvah Adult Manual The Pelham Jewish Center 451 Esplanade, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 (914) 738-6008 [Phone] www.thepjc.org Bibliography of Recommended Children’s Literature LIFE CYCLE (continued) Author Title Theme Grade Level Sandy Lanton Daddy’s Chair Death and Mourning Upper Elementary Patricia Polacco The Keeping Quilt Life Cycle All Chaim Potok The Tree of Here Moving Upper Elementary Stephen Rittner All That You Want to Know B’nei Mitzvah Upper Elementary About the Bar-Bat Mitzvah R. Rosenblum My Bar Mitzvah Bar Mitzvah Upper Elementary R. Rosenblum The Old Homelessness Upper Elementary Cynthia Rylant Miss Maggie Friendship, Aging, Caring for Animals Stephen Schnur The Narrowest Bar Mitzvah Bar Mitzvah Upper Elementary Stephen Schnur The Return of Morris Wedding Upper Elementary Schumsky Philip Sendak In Grandpa’s House Death, Memories Upper Elementary Carol Snyder Ike and Mama and the Once- Mother, Son Upper Elementary a-Year Suit Hope Wasburn Dear Hope… Love, Life Stories Upper Elementary Grandma Margaret Wild The Very Best of Friends Death All SHABBAT Author Title Theme Grade Level Celia P. Block When Sabbath Came He Creation & Shabbat Lower Elementary Rested Rabbi Baruch Chait The 39 Avoth Melacha of Shabbat/Mitzvot All Shabbath M. Feinberg Just Enough Room Shabbat Dinner All Yaffa Leba Gottlieb Eli and Ohn Shabbat Story Elementary The Pelham Jewish Center 451 Esplanade, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 (914) 738-6008 [Phone] www.thepjc.org Bibliography of Recommended Children’s Literature SHABBAT (continued) Author Title Theme Grade Level Faige Kobre A Sense of Shabbat Shabbat Lower Elementary H. Schwartz The Sabbath Lion Shabbat Folktale All Daniel J. Swartz Bim and Bom: A Shabbat Shabbat Elementary Tale Raymond Zwerin Shabbat Can Be Shabbat Lower Elementary HIGH HOLY DAYS Author Title Theme Grade Level Gates of Awe Prayers All Miriam Chaikin Sound the Shofar History, Symbols Upper Elementary H. Chanover Service for the High Holy Prayer Book Upper Elementary Days Barbara Cohen Yussel’s Prayer Yom Kippur All Arthur Finkle The Shofar Sounder Shofar Elementary and Up Barbara D. Goldin The World’s Birthday Rosh Hashanah All Philip Goodman The Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah Adult/Children Anthology Philip Goodman The Yom Kippur Yom Kippur Adult/Children Antholology Eric Kimmel Days of Awe Stories Upper Elementary Carol Levin A Rosh Hashanah Walk Tashlich All Patricia Polacco The Bee Tree Books, Bees Elementary S.R. Weilerstein K’tonton’s Yom Kippur Yom Kippur Upper Elementary Kitten SUKKOT Author Title Theme Grade Level David Adler The House on the Roof Sukkot Upper Elementary The Pelham Jewish Center 451 Esplanade, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 (914) 738-6008 [Phone] www.thepjc.org Bibliography of Recommended Children’s Literature SUKKOT (continued) Author Title Theme Grade Level Yaffa Ganz Yedidya and the Esrog Tree Sukkot All Ellie Gellman Tamar’s Sukkah Sukkot All Barbara D. Goldin Night Lights Sukkot Elementary Joel Grishaver Tanta Tevya and the Magic Sukkot Upper Elementary Booth Patricia Polacco Tikvah Means Hope Hope, Sukkot Elementary Elsa Okon Rael When Zaydeh Danced on Simachat Torah All Eldridge Street Peninnah Schram The Big Sukkah Sukkot All Jane B. Zalben Leo & Blossom’s Sukkah Sukkot All HANUKKAH Author Title Theme Grade Level David A. Adler One Yellow Daffodil Hanukkah Elementary Sholem Alechem Hanukkah Money Hanukkah Gifts Upper Elementary Miriam Chaikin Hanukkah History All Janice Cohn The Christmas Menorahs Jewish/Christian Elementary+ Martin Gal Eight Great Dreidel Stories Hanukkah Stories Teen/Adults Ellie Gellman Jeremy’s Dreidel Dreidel Story Upper Elementary Harriet Feder Judah Who Always Said Judah Maccabee Lower Elementary “No!” Marilyn Hirsh Potato Pancakes All Around Latkes All Eric Kimmel The Chanukah Guest Hanukkah Tale Primary Eric Kimmel Hershel and the Hanukkah Hanukkah Tale Upper Elementary Goblins Jenny Koralek Hanukkah Story of Hanukkah Elementary The Pelham Jewish Center 451 Esplanade, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 (914) 738-6008 [Phone] www.thepjc.org Bibliography of Recommended Children’s Literature HANUKKAH (continued) Author Title Theme Grade Level KTAV My Dreidel Coloring Book Hanukkah Elementary Patricia Polacco The Trees of the Dancing Story All Goats Dina Rosenfeld A Chanukah Story for Night Hanukkah Upper Elementary Number Three B. Scharfstein Chanukah Fun and Story Stories, Poems, Games Elementary Book Steven Schnur The Tie Man’s Miracle Tale 5th Grade and Up Roni Schotter Hanukkah Story Lower Elementary Cherie K. Schwartz My Lucky Dreidel Stories, Songs, Poems All Raymond Zwerin Like a Maccabee Maccabees Elementary TU B’SHEVAT Author Title Theme Grade Level Jeannie Baker Where the Forest Meets the Rain Forest, Nature Lower Elementary Sea Lynne Cherry The Great Kapok Tree Rain Forest Elementary Helen Cowcher Rain Forest Rain Forest, Animals, Lower Elementary Nature Alice McLerran The Mountain That Loved a Nature, Animals Upper Elementary Bird Natalia Romanova Once There Was a Tree Trees, Nature Elementary Uri Shulevitz Dawn Nature Elementary Neil Waldman The Never-Ending History, Israel Elementary Greenness The Pelham Jewish Center 451 Esplanade, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 (914) 738-6008 [Phone] www.thepjc.org Bibliography of Recommended Children’s Literature PURIM Author Title Theme Grade Level Miriam Chaikin Make Noise, Make Merry Story, Meaning Middle School Harriet Feder It Happened in ShuShan Story Preschool/Primary My Jewish Library Make-Me-A-Match Purim Hebrew Matching Early Elementary Saypol and Wikler My Very Own Megillah Story 3rd and 4th Grades Raymond Zwerin A Purim Album Story Elementary PESACH Author Title Theme Grade Level David Adler A Picture Book of Passover Story, Customs Upper Elementary Anonymous Who Knows One? Song All Susan Atlas The Passover Passage Passover, Freedom Middle School and Up Julie J. Auerbach Everything’s Changing – It’s Passover Lower Elementary Pesach Barbara Cohen The Carp in the Bathtub Passover Preparation Elementary David Geffen American Heritage All Haggadah Norman Geller Farfel: the Cat That Left Pesach Upper Elementary Egypt Barbara D. Goldin The Magician’s Visit Passover Tale Elementary Barbara D. Goldin The Passover Journey A Seder Companion Elementary Joel L. Grishaver Building a Jewish Life Haggadah 4th Grade and Up Haggadah Leonard Jaffe A Pitzel Passover Story Elementary Nina Jaffe The Mysterious Visitor Stories of Elijah All Nancy Krulik Penny & the Four Questions Seder Elementary/Middle School The Pelham Jewish Center 451 Esplanade, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 (914) 738-6008 [Phone] www.thepjc.org Bibliography of Recommended Children’s Literature PESACH (continued) Author Title Theme Grade Level Shoshana Lepon The Ten Plagues of Egypt Plagues Elementary Fran Manushkin The Matzah That Papa Seder Elementary Brought Home Francine Medoff The Mouse in the Matzah Matzah Elementary Factory Deborah U. Miller Only Nine Chairs Seder, Tall Tale Lower Elementary David Moss The Moss Haggadah Haggadah All Miriam Nerlove Passover History, Seder Primary-3rd Grade Patricia Polacco Mrs. Katz & Tush Immigration, Freedom Middle School Mindy Portnoy Matzah Ball Baseball, Pesach Primary/Elementary Susan C. Poskanzer What Can it Be? Riddles About Passover Elementary Sylvia A. Rouss Sammy Spider’s First Story Book Primary Passover Judyth R. Saypol My Very Own Haggadah Songs and Activities Elementary Rosalind Schilder Dayenu or How Uncle Pesach Story Elementary Murray Saved the Seder Roni Schotter Passover Magic Story Book Elementary Ori Sherman The Four Questions Symbolism of the Seder Elementary Smadar Shir Sidi Passover A-Z Mini-Encyclopedia Elementary Susan R. Topek A Taste for Noah Haroset Elementary Lauren Wohl Matzoh House Passover Preparation Elementary/Middle School Evelyn Zusman The Passover Parrot Seder, Afikomen Elementary/Middle School The Pelham Jewish Center 451 Esplanade, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 (914) 738-6008 [Phone] www.thepjc.org Bibliography of Recommended Children’s Literature HOLIDAYS (General) Author Title Theme Grade Level Ruth E. Brinn Let’s Celebrate Holiday Activities All Greer F. Cashman Jewish Days & Holidays Facts, History & Middle School Customs