Diverse Books - Jewish Picture Books

A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.

When Micah and his family volunteer to pick pumpkins for a soup kitchen, he also hopes to get the perfect pumpkin for himself, but soon learns that giving to others can be even better. Includes facts about Sukkot.

With encouragement and Torah lessons from her great-granddaughter, Bubbie has a bat mitzvah.

Students in Israel plant wheat in the fall, watch it grow during the winter, and harvest it in the spring, threshing, winnowing, and grinding it until they have flour which, with cheese from petting zoo goats and strawberries they have grown, will make their Shavuot dessert. Includes a cheesecake recipe.

The year's range of Jewish holidays and celebrations are presented in this repeating, rhyming chant that features key succinct elements for each.

Unable to stand his overcrowded and noisy home any longer, a poor man goes to the Rabbi for advice.

A composer named Moshe Cotel adopts a stray kitten he names Ketzel that ends up composing a prize-winning musical piece.

Once there was a child without a friend. Ben-Zion's father insisted that his son speak only Hebrew, considered by some as the language of angels. But in the 1880s, the Jewish people who lived in Jerusalem spoke Yiddish or the languages of the places where they grew up. Hebrew hadn't been in everyday use for more than two thousand years, and adults said it could never be revived. This is the story of how one man and his son brought Hebrew back into...

In a dark shop, the Hebrew letters waiting to be put on the dreidels being made there conspire to keep the Gimels from being added to the dreidels. Hiding the Gimels before the shop owner returns the next day, they don't realize how important a completed dreidel is to celebrating the Jewish faith. When they realize that what they've done might ruin Hanukkah, they quickly return the Gimels so the dreidel maker can complete the toys in time for the...

Illustrations and simple text portray children and their family as they prepare for, then celebrate, a Passover seder with foods, games, songs, and even a sleepover.