The Pelham Jewish Center - ShulCloud · 2019. 12. 23. · The Pelham Jewish Center 451 Esplanade, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 (914) 738-6008 [Phone] Bibliography of Recommended Children’s

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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

Grade

Bar Mitzvah Upper Elementary

Miriam Cohen Best Friends Friendship All

Martin Elant Bar Mitzvah Lessons Bar Mitzvah Upper Elementary

Mem Fox Wilfrid, Gordon, McDonald,

Partridge

Memories, Aging All

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

Manual

Bar Mitzvah Adult



LIFE CYCLE (continued)


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

About the Bar-Bat Mitzvah

B’nei Mitzvah Upper Elementary

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

Schumsky

Wedding Upper Elementary

Philip Sendak In Grandpa’s House Death, Memories Upper Elementary

Carol Snyder Ike and Mama and the Once-

a-Year Suit

Mother, Son Upper Elementary

Hope Wasburn Dear Hope… Love,

Grandma

Life Stories Upper Elementary

Margaret Wild The Very Best of Friends Death All

SHABBAT


Celia P. Block When Sabbath Came He

Rested

Creation & Shabbat Lower Elementary

Rabbi Baruch Chait The 39 Avoth Melacha of

Shabbath

Shabbat/Mitzvot All

M. Feinberg Just Enough Room Shabbat Dinner All

Yaffa Leba Gottlieb Eli and Ohn Shabbat Story Elementary



SHABBAT (continued)


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

Tale

Shabbat Elementary

Raymond Zwerin Shabbat Can Be Shabbat Lower Elementary

HIGH HOLY DAYS


Gates of Awe Prayers All

Miriam Chaikin Sound the Shofar History, Symbols Upper Elementary

H. Chanover Service for the High Holy

Days

Prayer Book Upper Elementary

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

Anthology

Rosh Hashanah Adult/Children

Philip Goodman The Yom Kippur

Antholology

Yom Kippur Adult/Children

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

Kitten

Yom Kippur Upper Elementary

SUKKOT


David Adler The House on the Roof Sukkot Upper Elementary



SUKKOT (continued)


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

Booth

Sukkot Upper Elementary

Patricia Polacco Tikvah Means Hope Hope, Sukkot Elementary

Elsa Okon Rael When Zaydeh Danced on

Eldridge Street

Simachat Torah All

Peninnah Schram The Big Sukkah Sukkot All

Jane B. Zalben Leo & Blossom’s Sukkah Sukkot All

HANUKKAH


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

“No!”

Judah Maccabee Lower Elementary

Marilyn Hirsh Potato Pancakes All Around Latkes All

Eric Kimmel The Chanukah Guest Hanukkah Tale Primary

Eric Kimmel Hershel and the Hanukkah

Goblins

Hanukkah Tale Upper Elementary

Jenny Koralek Hanukkah Story of Hanukkah Elementary



HANUKKAH (continued)


KTAV My Dreidel Coloring Book Hanukkah Elementary

Patricia Polacco The Trees of the Dancing

Goats

Story All

Dina Rosenfeld A Chanukah Story for Night

Number Three

Hanukkah Upper Elementary

B. Scharfstein Chanukah Fun and Story

Book

Stories, Poems, Games Elementary

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


Jeannie Baker Where the Forest Meets the

Sea

Rain Forest, Nature Lower Elementary

Lynne Cherry The Great Kapok Tree Rain Forest Elementary

Helen Cowcher Rain Forest Rain Forest, Animals,

Nature

Lower Elementary

Alice McLerran The Mountain That Loved a

Bird

Nature, Animals Upper Elementary

Natalia Romanova Once There Was a Tree Trees, Nature Elementary

Uri Shulevitz Dawn Nature Elementary

Neil Waldman The Never-Ending

Greenness

History, Israel Elementary



PURIM


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


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

Pesach

Passover Lower Elementary

Barbara Cohen The Carp in the Bathtub Passover Preparation Elementary

David Geffen American Heritage

Haggadah

All

Norman Geller Farfel: the Cat That Left

Egypt

Pesach Upper Elementary

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

Haggadah 4th Grade and Up

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



PESACH (continued)


Shoshana Lepon The Ten Plagues of Egypt Plagues Elementary

Fran Manushkin The Matzah That Papa

Brought Home

Seder Elementary

Francine Medoff The Mouse in the Matzah

Factory

Matzah Elementary

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

Passover

Story Book Primary

Judyth R. Saypol My Very Own Haggadah Songs and Activities Elementary

Rosalind Schilder Dayenu or How Uncle

Murray Saved the Seder

Pesach Story Elementary

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



HOLIDAYS (General)


Ruth E. Brinn Let’s Celebrate Holiday Activities All

Greer F. Cashman Jewish Days & Holidays Facts, History &

Customs

Middle School

Malka Drucker The Family Treasury of

Jewish Holidays

Stories All

Simon Kops Fast, Clean & Cheap Arts & Crafts Teachers

Ruth Kozodoy The Book of Jewish Holidays History of Holidays Middle School

Myra C. Livingston Poems for Jewish Holidays:

Trip Through the Jewish

Holiday Year

Poetry All

Susan G. Purdy Jewish Holidays Facts, Activities, Crafts All

Patricia Schaffer Chag Sameach Facts, Customs Elementary

Bea Stadtler Once Upon a Jewish

Holiday

Holiday Stories Elementary

Florence Zeldin A Mouse in Our Jewish

House

Holiday Foods &

Activities

Primary/Elementary

G-D/PRAYER/SYNAGOGUE


H. Bogot & D.

Syme

I Learn About G-d G-d Primary

Etan Boritzer What is G-d? G-d, Comparative

Studies

Elementary

Mira Brichto The G-d Around Us Picture Book, Poems &

Prayers

Primary/Elementary

Molly Cone Hear, O Israel About G-d Stories about G-d Elementary/Middle

School



G-D/PRAYER/SYNAGOGUE (continued)


Michelle Edwards Blessed Are You Prayers All

Grace Freeman/

Joan Sugarman

Inside the Synagogue Synagogue Elementary

Judyth Groner/

Madeline Wikler

Thank You G-d Child’s Prayer Book Primary/Elementary

Dorothy K. Kripke Let’s Talk About G-d G-d Elementary

Itamar Marcus Moshe’s Adventures in

Brachaland

Brachot, Story Elementary

Eva Pallay Sidduri Child’s Prayer Book Elementary

Mindy A. Portnoy Ima on the Bima Women Rabbis Primary/Elementary

Dina Rosenfeld Why the Moon Only Glows G-d, Midrash Primary/Elementary

Sandy E. Sasso G-d’s Paintbrush G-d Primary/Elementary

Sandy E. Sasso In G-d’s Name G-d Elementary

VALUES


Chris Van Allsburg Just a Dream Environment, Protection Elementary

Miriam Aroner &

Shelly Haas

The Kingdom of Singing

Birds

Freedom Primary/Elementary

Judith B. Belsky Two Brothers Kindness All

Esther S. Blanc Berchick Jewish Family in

Wyoming, Freedom

Elementary

Joan Blos Old Henry Getting Along with

Neighbors

Elementary

Michelle Edwards Chicken Man Kiddutz Life Elementary/Middle

School

Miriam Feinberg &

Rena Rotenberg

Lively Legends, Jewish

Values

Stories, Activities Primary/Elementary



VALUES (continued)


Agnes Herman &

Erwin Herman

The Yanov Torah Smuggling Torah into

Concentration Camp

Middle School

Chana R. Jacobs Take Care of Me Mezuzah Elementary

Holly Keller The Best Present Bikur Holim Elementary/Middle

School

Jonathan Kendall My Name is Rachamim Rescue of Ethiopian

Jewry

Middle School

Margy B. Knight Talking Walls Cultures of the World Middle School

Dorothy Kripke Let’s Talk About Right and

Wrong

Values Elementary

Jean Marzollo Happy Birthday, Martin

Luther King

Elementary

Deborah U. Miller

& Karen Ostrove

Fins and Scales A Kosher Tale Preschool/Elementary

Ann Morris Bread, Bread, Bread Diversity Elementary/Middle

School

Ann Morris Hats, Hats, Hats Diversity Elementary/Middle

School

Kerry Olitzky Commentary on Jewish

Ethics

Dennis Prager The Nine Questions Jewish Way of Life High School

Marjorie Priceman What Zeesie Saw on

Delancey Street

Tzedakah Elementary

Diane H. Rosenfeld The Very Best Place for a

Penny

Tzedakah Elementary

Cynthia Rylant The Relatives Came Family Life Elementary

Sol Scharfstein Let’s Do a Mitzvah Mitzvot Elementary

Lore Segal Tell Me a Mitzi Family Life Older Primary School



VALUES (continued)


Danny Siegel Tell Me a Mitzvah Mitzvot Middle School

Deborah Syme Partners Friendship Elementary

Mike Thaler The Teacher from the Black

Lagoon

Elementary

Shiffy Apelbaum,

Gay Block &

Malka Drucker

Moshe Mendel… Rescuers Mitzvah Quest, Moral

Courage, Holocaust

All

BIBLE


Leonard Baskin Moses Exodus Middle School

Pauline Baynes In the Beginning Creation Elementary

Berman, Grishaver My Weekly Sidrah Torah Portions Primary

E.L. Calisch Bible Tales Prophets, Writings Middle School

Esta Cassaway The Prophets for Young

People

Prophets Elementary/Middle

School

Miriam Chaikin Exodus Exodus Elementary

Molly Cone Who Knows Ten? Ten Commandments Elementary

Paul Crown A Torah is Written Sefer Torah Elementary/Middle

School

Alice J. Davidson The Story of Jonah Jonah Elementary

Ann Eisenberg Bible Heroes I Can Be Bible Heroes Primary

Trudy Ettelson Soul Stories and Steps Bible Stories, Spiritual

Recovery

Adult

Lillian Freehof Bible Legends: Genesis Intro to Midrash Elementary/Middle

School

Lillian Freehof Bible Legends: Exodus Intro to Midrash Elementary/Middle

School



BIBLE (continued)


Marc Gellman Does G-d Have a Big Toe? Stories Derived from

Bible Stories

Elementary/Middle

School

Marc Gellman G-d’s Mailbox Stories About Stories Elementary

Barbara D. Goldin A Child’s Book of Midrash Stories From the Sages Elementary/Middle

School

Ted Gross Of Rabbit’s Wool and

Camel’s Hair

Creation Elementary

Turner Hodges The Bible Story Library Bible Stories Elementary/Middle

School

Betty Hollender Bible Stories for Little

Children

Bible Stories Elementary

Warwick Hutton Moses in the Bulrushes Moses Primary/Elementary

Warwick Hutton Noah and the Great Flood Noah Primary/Elementary

Ann Jonas Aardvark’s Disembark Noah’s Ark, Biblical

Animals

Primary/Elementary

Shoshana Lepon Joseph the Dreamer Joseph’s Dreams Elementary

Lawrence Lorimer Noah’s Ark Noah’s Ark Primary/Elementary

Norman Lynch Bible Story Cartoons: Moses

in the Wilds, Moses in Egypt

Moses Elementary

Norman Lynch Bible Story Cartoons: The

Tower of Babel, Abraham,

Isaac, Gideon & Samson

Elementary

Dona Meilach First Book of Bible Heroes Bible Heroes Elementary

Julia Miner The Shepherd’s Song 23rd Psalm Elementary

Yona Z.

McDonough

Eve and Her Sisters Women of the Bible Elementary

Lore Segal The Book of Adam Bible Elementary -



BIBLE (continued)


Lore Segal The Story of King Saul King Saul Elementary -

Lore Segal The Story of King David King David Middle School

Ben Shahn The Alphabet of Creation Zohar Legend Primary/Elementary

Laura Simms The Baby Moses Moses Middle School

Laura Simms The Coat of Many Colors Joseph Middle School

Laura Simms The Golden Calf The Golden Calf Middle School

Laura Simms The Great Flood Noah Middle School

Isaac B. Singer Elijah the Slave Elijah Elementary

Susan R. Topek Ten Good Rules Ten Commandments Primary/Elementary

Steven M. Rosman Sidrash Stories A Torah Companion All

Nina Jaffe The Mysterious Visitor Stories of Elijah All

IMMIGRANT STORIES


S. and I. Bayar Rachel and Mischa Judaism in the Soviet

Union

Elementary

Joanne Bernstein D’mitry, A Young Soviet

Immigrant

Emigration &

Immigration

Middle School

Barbara Cohen Make a Wish, Molly Russian Americans Elementary/Middle

School

Linda Heller The Castle on Hester Street Immigration Primary/Elementary

Karen Hesse Letters from Rivka Emigration &

Immigration

Elementary/Middle

School

Riki Levinson Watch the Stars Come Out Emigration &

Immigration

Primary/Elementary

Sonia Levitin Journey to America German Jews, Refugees,

WWII

Elementary/Middle

School



IMMIGRANT STORIES (continued)


Richard Rosenblum Journey to the Golden Land Russia to Ellis Island Elementary

WAR AND PEACE


Eve Bunting Terrible Things Allegory of the

Holocaust

Elementary

Eve Bunting The Wall Vietnam & Veteran’s

Memorial

Elementary

Jacqueline Jules The Gray Striped Shirt Holocaust Survivors Elementary

Phyllis Karas The Hate Crime Anti-Semitism Elementary – High

School

Gerda W. Klein Promise of a New Spring Holocaust & Renewal Elementary

Caroline Lazo Elie Wiesel Holocaust, Biography,

Peacemaker

Middle School

Shulamith

Oppenheim

The Lilly Cupboard Holocaust, Righteous

Gentiles

Elementary

COLLECTIONS & CHAPTER BOOKS


Tamar Bergman The Boys from Over There Holocaust Survivors,

Kibbutz Life

Middle School

Chaya Burstein Joseph and Anna’s Time

Capsule

Traditions of Czech

Jewry

Elementary/Middle

School

Chaya Burstein The Mystery of the Coins Jewish History Elementary/Middle

School

Simon Certner 101 Jewish Stories Folk Tales All

Carol Chapman The Tale of Meshka the

Kvetch

Folk Tale Elementary/Middle

School

Roberta G. Cooks Gittel & the Bell Folk Tale Elementary



COLLECTIONS & CHAPTER BOOKS (continued)


Claud Field Jewish Legends of the

Middle Ages

Elementary & Up

Adele Geras My Grandmother’s Stories Collection of Folk Tales Elementary/Middle

School

Patricia R. Giff December Secrets Gift Giving Elementary

Phoebe Gilman Something from Nothing Folk Tale Primary/Elementary

Jules Harlow Lessons From Our Living

Past

Folk Tales Primary/Elementary

Irving owe Favorite Yiddish Stories Eastern European Jews Elementary & Up

Richard Israel The Kosher Pig Jewish Life Humor High School/Adult

E.L. Konigsburg About the B’nai Bagels Baseball, Youth Elementary & Up

Caroline Lazo Elie Wiesel Biography Middle/High School

Sara Levy Mother Goose Rhymes Rhymes All

Shari Lewis One-Minute Jewish Stories Legends Elementary & Up

Richard Lewis Miracles Poems by Children All

Aunt Naomi Jewish Fairy Tales & Fables Folk Tale Elementary & Up

Shirley Newman A Child’s Introduction to

Torah

Legends Primary/Elementary

Mildred Phillips The Sign in Mendel’s

Window

Folk Tale Elementary

Francine Pose Stories From Our Living

Past

Legends Elementary

Tzvi Rabinowicz The Prince Who Turned into

a Rooster

Hasidic Tales Middle School

Galila Ron-Feder The Commander-Hero of the

Hospital

Redhead Gang Series Middle School





J. Leonard Romm The Swastika on the

Synagogue Door

Anti-Semitism Middle School

Michael Rosen The Golem of Old Prague Legend Middle School

Howard Schwartz The Diamond Tree Jewish Tales from

Around the World

Middle School

Howard Schwartz Elijah’s Violin Jewish Fairy Tales Middle School & Up

Simcha Publishing The Great Jewish Enjoy-a-

Trivia Book

Jewish Trivia Elementary/Middle

School

Laura Simms A Great Miracle Happened

There

Chanukah Middle School

Laura Simms The Hoopoe’s Feathers King Solomon Middle School

Laura Simms The Test Satan Middle School

Isaac B. Singer Stories for Children Folk Tales Elementary & Up

Isaac B. Singer Joseph & Koza Folk Tale Elementary & Up

Isaac B. Singer Yentel the Yeshiva Boy Story Elementary & Up

Isaac B. Singer Naftali the Storyteller & His

Horse, Sus

Collection of Stories Middle School & Up

Isaac B. Singer Zlateh and the Goat Collection of Stories Elementary & Up

Judith Viorst If I Were in Charge of the

World

Poems for Children &

Parents

All

Sadie R.

Weilerstein

The Adventures of K’Ton

Ton

Holiday Stories Elementary

Sadie R.

Weilerstein

The Singing Way Poems for Jewish

Children

All

Sadie R.

Weilerstein

Ten and a Kid Pesach in an Eastern

European Village

Elementary & Up





Beatrice S.

Weinreich

Yiddish Folktales Folk Tales Middle School & Up

David Wisniewski Golem Retold Traditional Tale Elementary

ISRAEL


Giora Carmi And Shira Imagined Israel – Description &

Travel Book

Primary/Elementary

Judy Hoffman & S.

and T. Grand

The Children of Israel Daily Life of Israeli

Children

Elementary/Middle

School

Shemuel Katz Jerusalem: Holy Business as

Usual

Caricatures of Jerusalem

History

All

Karla Kuskin Jerusalem: Shining Still History Elementary

Ann Morris When Will the Fighting

Stop?

Jewish-Arab Relations Elementary

Alan Paris Discover the City of Gold Tour of Jerusalem Elementary

Sheila Segal Joshua’s Dream Israel, Desert Elementary/Middle

School

Barbara Sofer Shalom, Haver Rabin Elementary

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The Pelham Jewish Center - ShulCloud · 2019. 12. 23. · The Pelham Jewish Center 451 Esplanade, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 (914) 738-6008 [Phone] Bibliography of Recommended Children’s