Judyth Groner

A pretty little board book with colorful pictures and few words for a very young child. Reading the reviews, I realized the book is as much about means of transportation as it is about places in Israel. A young boy travels to Ben Gurion airport, the hills of Jerusalem, the wall of the Old City, a kibbutz, Eilat, the desert, Masada, Beersheva, and the Dead Sea by plane, in a tour bus, on foot, in a tractor, in a glass-bottomed boat, in a jeep, in cable car, on a camel, and by floating show more respectively. There is very little detail in the pictures and no almost no information in the text, no real interaction with people, and nothing obviously Jewish about the book (although the locations have a Jewish connection), even though it is published by Kar-Ben and is a PJ Library book. But it ends with an invitation to visit what might well be a charming country; it's a sweet book. show less

Simple story for a young child. Format for each page is: "Is it ....? No, that's ...." Some, but not all, of the objects found as a young girl and her cat search for the afikomen are ritual objects used at a Seder. So it is educational. Pictures are colorful and simple and I found the book satisfying.

I considered using this for a seder with a 1 1/3-year-old, but it's too different from most Haggadot for me---Moses keeps getting mentioned! And the four questions come late. There are lots of pictures to color before the holiday and the book looks inviting.

This old favorite gives children an illustrated introduction to Yom Kippur and makes the concepts of forgiveness, repentance, and starting over easy to grasp. The words are complemented by music to accompany holiday songs.