The Hanukkah Book
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This is a well-written discussion of why and how Hanukkah is celebrated. The book contains
recipes, songs, crafts with diagrams, and directions for playing with a dreidel. Widely reviewed
and praised compilation for the holiday.
Description from Children's Literature
If you can only buy one Hanukkah book, this is it.
Description from Booklist
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Eight Days of Hanukkah :
A Holiday Step Book
By Harriet Ziefert
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For eight days and eight nights
Special candles we will light. Harriet Ziefert's simple, lively text and Melinda Levine's bright cut-paper collages bring the holiday of Hanukkah to life in a way that's just right for little ones. With every page a candle is added to the menorah, and one holiday ritual is introduced from lighting candles to storytelling to dreidels and latkes. This unique step book printed on sturdy cardstock features progressively wider pages that make it easy for small hands to turn to the page of their choice.
Description from Publisher
Subtitled, "A Holiday Step Book," this colorful introduction to the Jewish Festival of Lights is made up of eight pages, each slightly longer than the preceding one. There's a page and a short rhyme featuring a holiday artifact or activity for each of the eight nights of Hanukkah. There's repetition, rhythm, color, energy, and just enough information to satisfy the intended preschool audience.
Description from Children's Literature
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The Story of Chanukah for Children
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A children's book about Chanukah. Do you know why we celebrate
Chanukah? In all the ways we'll celebrate this Festival of Lights,
remembering our ancestors who fought to keep their rights.
Description from Publisher
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All about Hanukkah
Also Available:
Book/CD set
Book/Cassette set
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A highly-praised retelling of the Hanukkah story with bright, colorful
pictures and discussion tops and questions to enhance each of the 8
nights of celebration. With candle blessings, rules for playing
dreidel, recipes for ltakes and sufganiyot (jelly donuts), words and
music to favorite Hanukkah songs -- plus thoughts on being free,
being different, miracles, legends, heroes, gifts, gelt, and giving.
Everything you need for a Happy Hanukkah.
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Hanukkah
(The Art of Jewish Living)
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Designed to help celebrate and enrich the holiday season,
Hanukkah discusses the holiday's origins, reasons
for the Hanukkah candles and customs, and provides
everything from recipes to family activities. There are
songs in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish (with clear
transliterations), recipes for Hanukkah foods-particularly
all sorts of luscious latkes-useful information on the
arts and crafts of Hanukkah, the calendar and its
relationship to X-mas time, and games played at Hanukkah.
Putting the holiday in a larger, timely context,
"December Dilemmas" deals with ways in which a Jewish
family can cope with Christmas.Throughout the book,
representative Jewish families explain their customs
and ideas about observing Hanukkah, while vividly
expressing their personal feelings about the holiday.
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Heroes of Hanukkah
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Judah Maccabee and his small band of freedom-fighters repeatedly clash with the
Syrian army in their attempt to liberate Jerusalem and the holy Temple.
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Hanukkah Fun:
Crafts and Games
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A wide assortment of creative and colorful Hanukkah crafts
offers hours of entertainment. Each page contains clever
ideas for useful holiday items made from basic materials.
Easy-to-follow directions help budding craft makers create
menorahs, dreidels, gifts, and much more.
Description from Publisher
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