Is It Hanukkah Yet? is a delight­ful hol­i­day book for adults to read to younger chil­dren or for begin­ning read­ers to read on their own. The text and pic­tures move the read­ers along, from the out­door pic­ture clues show­ing that win­ter and Hanukkah are on their way to the warmth of the fam­i­ly home with Hanukkah prepa­ra­tions and glow­ing can­dles, the singing of hol­i­day songs and the spin­ning of drei­dels to show that Hanukkah is here.

The illus­tra­tions are sweet and include cud­dly ani­mals as well as a mul­ti-gen­er­a­tional fam­i­ly. The sim­ple, rhyming lan­guage, sup­port­ed by the images, as well as the rep­e­ti­tion of the refrain, ​“Hanukkah is on its way,” makes this an espe­cial­ly invit­ing sto­ry for ear­ly readers.