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Celebrate Rosh Hashanah with Uncle Max!

Celebrate Rosh Hashanah with Uncle Max! @mediamastersbks @KarBenPub

Rosh Hashanah with Uncle Max, by Varda Livney, (Aug. 2021, Kar-Ben Publishing), $7.99, ISBN: 9781728429069 Ages 0-4 The New Year is coming, and Uncle Max is going to spend it with his very excited family! Uncle Max is clearly the life of the party, with his colorful floral shirt and backwards baseball cap. Together, the family watches the sun set, lights the candles and enjoys a meal, and…

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Tales from the TBR: The Topsy Turvy Bus by Anita Fitch Pazner & Carolina Farías

Tales from the TBR: The Topsy Turvy Bus by Anita Fitch Pazner & Carolina Farías @KarBenPub @AnitaPazner @fariasillos

The Topsy-Turvy Bus, by Anita Fitch Pazner/Illustrated by Carolina Farías, (March 2022, Kar-Ben Publishing), $17.99, ISBN: 9781728419497 Ages 4-8 Environmentalism is so much fun in this uplifting story inspired by a real-life powered by a real-life religious environmental agency whose biodiesel bus runs on “sunlight, veggie oil, and Torah”. Maddie and Jake are two students who are worried about…

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Who are Maziks and what do they do before bedtime?

Who are Maziks and what do they do before bedtime? @KarBenPub

Bedtime for Maziks, by Yael Levy/Illustrated by Nabila Adani, (Apr. 2022, Kar-Ben Publishing), $17.99, ISBN: 9781728424279 Ages 4-8 This adorably rhyming story is part How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?, part Where the Wild Things Are. Mazik is a Yiddish word for a mischief-maker – I know a few of those! – and sometimes, a parent may lovingly refer to their little tornadoes as maziks. Bedtime for…

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Mrs. Noah’s Doves by Jane Yolen

Mrs. Noah’s Doves by Jane Yolen

Illustrator: Ali­da Mas­sari Mrs. Noah kept birds. She kept many a variety of birds, ravens and robins, eagles and eiders, cockatoos and crows. But out of all the birds she kept, her favorite were her doves. When the flood comes, Mrs. Noah brings them onto the ark. But there is a special mission for the doves.

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The Stars Will Be My Nightlight: A Sukkot Story by Jen Halpern

The Stars Will Be My Nightlight: A Sukkot Story by Jen Halpern

Illustrator: Chiara Fedele “Can we sleep in the sukkah?” the son asks his mom. She worries that it will be cold and dark, and that it might rain. “But the stars will be my nightlight,” the boy says, to which the mom smiles.

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Sam­my Spi­der’s First ABC by Sylvia A. Rouss

Sam­my Spi­der’s First ABC by Sylvia A. Rouss

Illustrator: Kather­ine Janus Kahn Sammy Spider goes through the English alphabet using the Jewish holidays and traditions celebrated by the Shapiro family. With its sweet rhymes and iconic illustrations, this book is a fun new addition to the Sammy Spider collection.

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The Prince of Steel Pier by Stacy Nockowitz

The Prince of Steel Pier by Stacy Nockowitz

A young teen falls in with the mob, and learns a lesson about what kind of person he wants to be In The Prince of Steel Pier, Joey Goodman is spending the summer at his grandparents’ struggling hotel in Atlantic City, a tourist destination on the decline. Nobody in Joey’s big Jewish family takes him seriously, so when Joey’s Skee-Ball skills land him an unusual job offer from a local mobster,…

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The But­ton Box by Brid­get Hodder

The But­ton Box by Brid­get Hodder

After Jewish fifth-grader Ava and her Muslim best friend Nadeem are called hateful names at school, Ava’s Granny Buena rummages in her closet and pulls out a glittering crystal button box. It’s packed with buttons that generations of Ava’s Sephardic ancestors have cherished. With the help of Granny’s mysterious cat Sheba, Ava and Nadeem discover that a button from the button box will take them…

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