Latifa Berry Kropf

This book is about the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. The book’s audience would be pre-school or kinder age group. It is a photo essay with visual cues to support the text: for example: the celebration takes place in fall and the first picture shows a child climbing a tree full of fall colored leaves. It is colorful and shows children engaged in the activities for this cultural and religious holiday. It’s use of photos makes the holiday seem very ‘present day’ and modern and real. show more The photos all depict children so the young audience will directly relate to its content. show less

Color photographs of adorable children in a real Jewish preschool are engaging companions to a simple text that captures the fun of making challah in preparation for Shabbat.

In this installment of the photo essay series by Kropf and Cohen, children blow the shofar, create New Year’s cards, bake round challah, dip apples in honey, see the Torah dressed in white, and perform tashlich. Instructions for making a shofar craft project are included along with a brief note about Rosh Hashanah.

Easy picture book about Purim. Short sentences on each page tell the story. Full color photos of children participating. Quick craft at end of book.