Reviews
The Six-Day Hero
“The opening scene in The Six-Day Hero takes place at a ceremony in celebration of Israel’s nineteenth birthday. Twelve-year-old Motti’s brother Gideon is on the dais being honored as an Independence Day baby. Motti can’t stand the boring, hot ceremony and wriggles out to… View →
The Art Lesson: A Shavuot Story
“What could be better to bring home the meaning of a Jewish holiday, especially the spring harvest holiday of Shavuot, which shows God’s gift of Torah to the Jewish people, than a book about making art! Shavuot is usually celebrated either by staying up one night of Shavuot… View →
Primary-grade math concepts come into play when a club must decide the best way to sell their charity popcorn. The Community Champions are a varied cast of kids—an unobtrusive mix of genders, races, and one who uses a wheel-chair—who do good works around town. Occasionally… View →
Hooray for Pilots!
“Familiar job choices that also tap into preschool curricular units on community.”—School Library Journal, Series Made Simple View →
Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song
“This is an excellent resource for music and art teachers as well as for social studies and U.S. history lessons.”—starred, School Library Journal View →
Kopecks for Blintzes
“Batori’s elongated faces and tilted surroundings capture the zaniness of the action in full color. Goldman seamlessly interweaves definitions for blintzes, dybuks (demons), melamed (teacher), and Shavuot itself without missing a humorous story beat.” — Jewish View →
Writing Powerful Persuasive Pieces
“[P]rovides encouragement and tips for aspiring writers. . . . This is a pragmatic and easy-to-use series recommended for language arts teachers and school libraries.”—VOYA View →
Digital Safety Smarts: Preventing Cyberbullying
“[This] series is aimed at readers who have grown up using the Internet but may not fully understand what they intuitively do online. . . . This solid series will be useful for teachers who want to help their students become savvier digital natives.”—Booklist Online View →
Passover Is Coming!
“Teachers and families will enjoy sharing this book with toddlers.” — AJL Reviews View →
Shmulik Paints the Town
“Children will enjoy Ezra’s fearless approach to art, and art teachers may find it can serve as an inspirational classroom tool” — AJL Reviews View →
Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land
“An attractive and inspiring look at immigration to the United States, sure to spark discussions at home or in the classroom. . . . [T]his offering puts a human face on a serious issue. . . . An ideal jumping-off place for teachers and parents interested in starting a conversation… View →
Whose Hands Are These?: A Community Helper Guessing Book
“Rhyming verses and illustrations of hands working give readers the opportunity to guess what community jobs people do . . . [f]rom the commonplace to those that rarely appear in picture books. . . . A great addition to libraries’ and teacher’s shelves for units on… View →
Bow-Tie Pasta: Acrostic Poems
“An extremely useful tool for teachers or librarians looking to breathe life into a poetry unit.”—School Library Journal View →
Writing Powerful Persuasive Pieces
“These brief, well-written, and well-organized volumes are jam-packed with solid guidelines. . . . Teachers will find this series helpful as the foundation of their own lessons, in addition to assigned student reading.”—School Library Journal, Series Made Simple View →
Being a Good Citizen: A kids' guide to community involvement
The Start Smart: Community series offers readers a way to think about where they live, who helps them, and what it means to be an effective part of their communities. Being a Good Citizen explains in simple language hwo their world is arrange and advises kids on how to find way… View →
I'm Casting a Spell!: Meet a Fairy-Tale Witch
“[A] wonderfully inventive series. . . . The multicultural approach creates opportunities for students to make connections and gain deeper understandings. . . . Media specialists and teachers can use these to introduce genre units, and they are sure to attract… View →
An Ambush of Tigers: A Wild Gathering of Collective Nouns
“[A] clever contemplation of animal-centric collective nouns . . . inventively and captivatingly composed. . . . Language arts teachers as well as librarians will want to get their paws on this title.”—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books View →
The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats: A Scientific Mystery
“Students who are fascinated by bats will definitely be drawn to this high-interest book….[A] must-have for any school library…brimming with useful information that science teachers will be able to utilize…..Highly Recommended.”―starred, Library Media… View →
Fat & Bones: And Other Stories
“[Q]uick and entertaining tale from a first-time author….This book would be a perfect choice for teacher read-alouds, and students would clamor to read it again on their own.”―Library Media Connection View →
Joey and the Giant Box
“In this picture book, Joey’s parents have a dishwasher delivered, which comes in a gigantic box. Joey begs his mom, who wants to recycle it, to let him keep it as a plaything. Mom convinces Joey to give it to his school as a donation box to help him learn about helping… View →
If It Rains Pancakes: Haiku and Lantern Poems
“Lower grade teachers can use this title as a fun read-aloud, while middle and upper grade teachers can employ the book to instruct students on the two poetry forms and to assign their students assignments to create poems themselves.” —Library Media Connection View →
Apple Days: A Rosh Hashanah Story
“Every year at holiday time, Katy looks forward to making applesauce with her mother. When she shares her excitement with her religious school classmates, she also mentions the other exciting news: Later in the month, she will have a new baby cousin. A well-written,… View →
Every Body's Talking: What We Say without Words
“A must-have for classroom libraries in classes requiring oral presentations, this book may well help students faster than any teacher encouragement…. Display in public and school libraries; gift a copy to your child or child’s teacher; help this extraordinary resource… View →
A Matter of Souls
“These are ugly truths exposed, brought to life with an immediacy that breaks through the gauzy filters of history. Teachers looking for a YA complement to Richard Wright will find the multiple characters’ stories here both useful and bracing.” —The Bulletin of the… View →