Reviews
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
“Through realistically cartooned digital illustrations and straightforward text, readers learn how Ross’s experiences reflected these traits. Because she valued learning and had a passion for math, Ross was able to persevere.”—The Horn Book Magazine View →
Brisket Helps Miryam with Online Learning
“For instructional, therapeutic reading, with a dog narrator as the spoonful of sugar.”—Kirkus Reviews View →
A Rainy Day Story
“There’s much to learn from this simple story; it delivers the kind of lesson that sticks. Once absorbed, it can change a child’s outlook and will last for a lifetime.” — Michal Hoschlander Malen, Jewish Book Council View →
Matzah Craze
“But Gallegos’s peppy, animation-like illustrations feel true enough to school life, depicting an inclusive student body eager to learn—and to nosh.” — Publishers Weekly View →
The Great Passover Escape
“This book presents an excellent introduction to the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem, a wonderful place for children of all ages to learn about animals mentioned in the Bible as well as endangered species.” — Rachel Glasser, AJL Newsletter, retired… View →
There Was a Young Rabbi: A Hanukkah Tale
“‘There Was a Young Rabbi: A Hanukkah Tale’ will help children to learn about Hanukkah’s festivities and rituals, and about the Jewish holiday itself.” — James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review View →
Beni's War
“What I enjoyed most in this book is the personified experience of a tween; how accurately the author described such everyday inner stories as magical thinking (‘get better’), the angst of being bullied, the elevating feeling of forgiving someone, the excitement of… View →
Bot Battles
“This series features captivating examples of battling and racing robots paired with familiar community helper robots. Readers will want to learn more.”—School Library Journal View →
The Super Bowl: Football's Game of the Year
“Readers will enjoy learning how teams end up in the finals and championship games before reliving triumphant moments . . .”—School Library Journal View →
Does Your Dog Speak Hebrew?: A Book of Animal Sounds
“Young preschoolers will enjoy learning animal names and sounds in multiple languages, and the reminder that, ‘A cow and parah both say, ‘Moo!’ in English…and in Hebrew too!’ adds a nice note of cross-cultural unity.” — Rebecca Fox, Children’s Librarian II,… View →
Undecided, 2nd Edition: Navigating Life and Learning after High School
“A useful and comprehensive handbook for teens contemplating life after high school.”—Kirkus Reviews View →
Genomics: A Revolution in Health and Disease Discovery
“An excellent bridge between real-world technology applications of biotechnology and what students learn in their biology classrooms.”—starred, School Library Journal View →
The Huffalots
“A sweet, quiet book to help kids learn that as fast as feelings come, they can also go.”—Kirkus Reviews View →
Fight Pollution, Big Bird!
“[M]akes learning about sustainability a fun endeavor . . . A great series that is ideal for any early learning collection.”—School Library Journal, Series Made Simple View →
Manjhi Moves a Mountain
“A finely illustrated true story to encourage social emotional learning that belongs in most collections.”—School Library Journal View →
I Love Matzah
“A toddler (and later his baby brother) eats matzah all day long during Passover. For breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack, he shares the various ways he likes it—with milk, with jam, with cheese, etc. Not a lot here, but this little rhyming story is very useful in sharing the… View →
Shalom Bayit
“A lovely book with a message of the peace of nature around us includes the Jewish concept of shalom bayit in a successful way. The illustrations will be super appealing to young children and the possibilities for kids to point out various animals and learn about their homes is… View →
My Family Celebrates Kwanzaa
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/12/02/books-season-enjoy-with-your-little-ones/ 10 great holiday-season books to enjoy with your little ones The season of all seasons is upon us. And these children’s books about Christmas,… View →
Whale of a Tale
Scarlett and Sam, the time-travelling twins from Escape from Egypt (Kar-Ben, 2015) and Search for the Shamir (Kar-Ben, 2018) have returned to experience first-hand the story of Jonah. When they offer to take their Iranian grandmother’s priceless antique carpet to the carpet cleaner, they View →
Room for One More
In 1942, twelve-year-old Rosetta and her Jewish Montreal-based family agree to take in Isaac, a Jewish teen refugee from Nazi Germany who’s private about what he’s endured. While Isaac and the family adjust to each other, Rosetta’s understanding of her Jewish identity and of the way her… View →
Walk Till You Disappear
Miguel Abrano lives on the family horse ranch just outside Tucson in 1872. He is nearly 13 and thinks himself almost a man, certainly old enough to decide he would like to become a Catholic priest when he is adult. Still, his family treats him as if he is immature. One evening a… View →
Room for One More
Rosetta Wolfson, second oldest in a family of three girls, loves to listen in on other people’s conversations. She is under the dining table listening when Mr. Schwarzberg, her father’s visitor, tells her father about Nazi atrocities in World War Two, especially the persecution of Jewish View →
Mission Python
“First purchases for most libraries. Readers looking for hands-on learning with coding will appreciate these beginner volumes.”—School Library Journal, Series Made Simple View →
A Dreidel in Time: A New Spin on an Old Tale
SAN DIEGO – Ah, the joys of time travel! San Diego author Marcia Berneger, a retired teacher, uses this device to imaginatively retell… View →