"Like the artist's Chicken Man and A Baker's Portrait, this has an informal warmth that will endear it to kids who already know or want to learn the Hebrew alphabet...Clear, artful, and involving, this is a model of what foriegn-language alphabets should be." Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books
A PJ Library Book Selection
Gabi Greenberg loved Hanukkah. She loved to watch the sun go down. She loved to see the sky grow dark. When the stars appeared, she loved to light the menorah. When Gabi recieves a new tricycle, she names it "Hanukkah" and vows to ride it everywhere. On her very first try she falls off the trike, but she finds the courage to try again by remembering the brave Maccabees and their struggle and vistory over King Antiochus and his army.
"Young children will enjoy her sucess when she and "Hanukkah" finally take off down the street." School Library Journal
A PJ Library Book Selection; A Booklist 2010 Recommended Holiday Book
For Selma and her little sister Dora, this is their first Hanukkah without Mama. When Pap comes home with everything they need for latkes, Selma is worried. Mama always made the Hanukkah Latkes. Can they make them withouth her?
"A thouching and uplifting story." School Library Journal
Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices; Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Older Readers
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