Reviews
I Want My Dad!
“Ross’s idiosyncratic royals and distinctive pencil and watercolor art relay the message that there’s no father like one’s very own.”—Publishers Weekly View →
The Family with Two Front Doors
“Ciddor’s lively novel transports readers to the Jewish quarter of the town of 1920s Lublin, Poland, where the Rabinovitch family of 11 (including a rabbi father, a mother, and their nine children) carries out its Orthodox traditions in both rambunctious and respectful style.… View →
Troublemakers
“Barter’s novel should appeal to a wide audience for its emotional honesty and its complex characters and relationships.”—Publishers Weekly View →
Meet My Family!: Animal Babies and Their Families
“[A] tender celebration of family . . .”—Publishers Weekly View →
I Got a Chicken for My Birthday
“Filled with splashy colors and textures, Horne’s mixed-media pictures playfully fiddle with perspective and scale while including details that step up the fun. . . . An oddball birthday tale with heart.”—Publishers Weekly View →
Paulie's Passover Predicament
“Paulie the moose is hosting his first seder, and things aren’t going well. He carves a horse from a radish instead of horseradish for the maror (bitter herbs). He makes the charoset out of apples and chopped pinecones. And he gets stuck in the basement… View →
The Passover Parrot, 2nd Edition
“Zusman’s story of how a chatty bird becomes comically enmeshed in a family’s seder returns for its 35th anniversary with new illustrations and shifts in tone that range from subtle to significant. The narrator is now named Lily instead of Leba, and… View →
“It’s a rowdy ode to low-tech music making and play, with an ending that suggests more household chaos is in store.”—Publishers Weekly View →
The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary
“Ramos makes effective use of vernacular to channel Macy’s anger, anguish, and sharp-edged perspective in a disturbing but empathetic portrait of life as a child in poverty.”—Publishers Weekly View →
Honk! Splat! Vroom!
“Everyone (except the cat) wins in this light, funny tale.”—Publishers Weekly View →
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
“[D]elicately demonstrate[s] the complexity of identity and the power of communication to build friendships.”—starred, Publishers Weekly View →
Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright
“The clustered, overlapping photographs scatter and dissipate at the edges of the spreads, subtly reflecting the evanescence of the moments Wright describes.”—Publishers Weekly View →
May's Wild Walk: Book 1
“[A] fine, quirky starter comic for readers moving out of picture books.”—Publishers Weekly View →
Merry Christmas, Mary Christmas!
“Durst’s kinetic mixed-media cartoons convey the family’s over-the-top enthusiasm with humor and understanding as Friedman makes the case that the best thing to do with abundance is to share it.”—Publishers Weekly View →
Way Too Many Latkes: A Hanukkah in Chelm
“Faigel makes the most delicious latkes in her village—but only in tiny batches. Those lucky enough to taste one of them ‘dream about it for the rest of the year.’ Then Faigel forgets her famous recipe, and because she lives in Chelm, the legendary village of fools, the View →
The Missing Letters: A Dreidel Story
“Everyone knows that when the dreidel lands on gimel, it’s winner take all. No wonder all the heys, nuns, and shins in the dreidel-maker’s shop are so resentful: what can compete with gimel’s popularity at Hanukkah? ‘When the dreidel stops on me, they have to add to the… View →
“[A] bittersweet story . . .”—Publishers Weekly View →
Koala Challah
“Lila, a little koala, sees how her older sisters get to show off their eucalyptus-themed Shabbat specialties (Rachel makes eucalyptus oil candles, Naomi makes eucalyptus wine) and yearns to be part of the preparations. But as Mommy gently but firmly explains, her helpfulness can… View →
Chicken in the Kitchen
“[A] boisterous story of things that go bump in the night . . .”—Publishers Weekly View →
Auma's Long Run
“A hard-hitting story of a resilient and intelligent girl who bravely confronts a devastating health crisis.”—starred, Publishers Weekly View →
Marco Polo: Dangers and Visions
“[T]he resulting epic casts a spell; readers won’t soon forget Marco’s kaleidoscopic journey—or the miracle that he survived to tell his story.”—Publishers Weekly View →
Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion
“[A] conversational, compelling, and visually arresting story . . .”—starred, Publishers Weekly View →
“[A] child’s-eye view of the mystery of ill health itself.”—Publishers Weekly View →
