Initially printed December 2024
Mild up your Hanukkah celebrations with these festive new books. Immerse your self within the wealthy historical past, cherished traditions, and heartwarming tales that make the Competition of Lights so particular. Excellent for youths and households, these books will hold the vacation spirit glowing all season lengthy!
This charming image e book celebrates all of the issues that youngsters love about Hanukkah—from lighting the menorah, to spinning the dreidel, to sharing a meal of latkes, and extra! A enjoyable counting aspect makes the e book good for studying aloud throughout story time, and backmatter features a glossary of Hanukkah-related phrases, in addition to a pronunciation information.
Charley and Seymour can’t await Hanukkah! They make plans for the massive occasion, with Seymour volunteering to make latkes and Charley in control of gathering the menorah and candles. However when Hanukkah arrives, Charley forgets what he was alleged to carry. Will the 2 associates nonetheless be capable to have a good time with out candles to mild? Seems to be like they’re in want of a Hanukkah miracle!
You could not need to invite a bear inside for Hanukkah, however in the event you suppose creatively, possibly there are methods the 2 of you may nonetheless benefit from the vacation collectively. Printed by Apples & Honey Press, an imprint of Jewish academic writer Behrman Home, Don’t Invite a Bear Inside for Hanukkah affords a playful introduction for younger readers to the preparations and traditions of Hanukkah. It’s a narrative about friendship, accommodating variations, and studying to be versatile when issues don’t go precisely as deliberate.
A Dragon for Hanukkah
By Sarah Mlynowski
Illustrated by Ariel Landy
Orchard Books (September 2024)
Grade Stage: Ok–2
This revolutionary vacation story celebrates the facility of a kid’s creativeness, whereas honouring the surprise and magic of the Competition of Lights. On the primary day of Hanukkah, Hannah’s dad and mom give her a dragon. For the following seven nights, she receives different fantastical presents, together with a time journey machine, a treasure chest, and several other unicorns. However are these presents actually what they appear?
Eight Candy Nights is centred across the many meals of Hanukkah. Set in a home crammed with delectable vacation treats like latkes, sufganiyot, and gelt, this e book follows one household as they put together for the primary night time of the Competition of Lights. Sidenotes on every web page give transient explanations of Yiddish and Hebrew phrases that must do with Hanukkah, and backmatter contains extra details about the origins of the vacation.
This middle-grade anthology options Hanukkah poems and tales from 16 completely different authors, and covers a various array of genres, views, and experiences. From the story of a baker who struggles to make sufganiyot from an outdated household recipe, to a narrative about codebreakers throughout World Warfare II, readers are positive to be taught one thing new about Jewish historical past, tradition, and custom because of this illuminating assortment.
Hanukkah
By Lesléa Newman
Illustrated by Rotem Teplow
phrases & footage (October 2024)
Grade Stage: Ok–1
This image e book invitations younger readers to expertise the magic and which means of Hanukkah by following together with one household as they start preparing for the eight-day occasion. Youngsters will be taught concerning the kinds of meals eaten throughout Hanukkah, how one can mild the menorah, what neighborhood celebrations happen on the Synagogue, and so forth. The e book additionally comes with recipes for latkes and apple sauce, directions for making a Hanukkah tzedakah field, and way more!
Hanukkah Pajamakkahs
By Dara Henry
Illustrated by Olga Ivanov and Aleksey Ivanov
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky (September 2024)
Grade Stage: Ok–1
Hanukkah Pajamakkahs performs off kids’s love of vacation pajamas in an effort to provide a contemporary and enjoyable tackle Hanukkah traditions. Ruthie loves the PJs that her dad and mom gave her on the primary night time of Hanukkah. She loves them a lot that she desires to put on them for all eight nights, proper as much as the annual Pajamakkah social gathering! However lots can occur in eight nights… Will she be capable to hold her new outfit spotless till then?
Let’s Get Festive presents a fantastically illustrated assortment of 30+ holidays around the globe. That includes festivals for each season, readers will be taught concerning the sights, scents, and scenes of Hanukkah, Diwali, Nowruz, O-Bon, the Venice Carnival, and extra!
This heat and comfy image e book explores not solely Hanukkah, however different festivals of sunshine as nicely. Following the sunshine of his menorah, one younger boy goes on an illuminating journey to see how households have a good time Diwali, Kwanzaa, Loy Krathong, and extra. Robin Heald’s lyrical textual content and Andrea Blinick’s mixed-media illustrations pair collectively to showcase a world of particular traditions, all linked by mild and love.
Fortunate Ruby is an interfaith vacation story that teaches younger readers concerning the significance respecting how all households have their very own traditions. When Ruby invitations her buddy Violet to her household’s vacation social gathering, Violet thinks it’s unusual that they have a good time each Hanukkah and Christmas, however quickly she begins to understand simply how fortunate Ruby actually is.
Younger readers will enjoyment of following together with this e book’s Jewish heroine as she tries to revive her household’s vacation spirit. Rachel has deliberate eight thrilling actions for every night time of Hanukkah, however her brother’s grumpy perspective retains spoiling the enjoyable. When an unlucky accident threatens to wreck their celebrations for good, will Rachel be capable to flip issues round and convey pleasure again into her favorite vacation?