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– January 16, 2012
Here is another harmless board book for little hands to hold and for little heads to hopefully hold the ideas communicated. Through poetic language and repetition of the main idea, the book nicely explains that “Shabbat” lives everywhere: at the Sabbath table, at the synagogue observance, in the home and out in the world. Pleasant pictures capture the symbols of the holiday and the customs of the people who celebrate it with family and friends. This book is fine for children 2 to 4 years old who use books hard and often rip regular paper pages in their zeal for “reading.”
Ellen G. Cole, a retired librarian of the Levine Library of Temple Isaiah in Los Angeles, is a past judge of the Sydney Taylor Book Awards and a past chairperson of that committee. She is a co-author of the AJL guide, Excellence in Jewish Children’s Literature. Ellen is the recipient of two major awards for contribution to Judaic Librarianship, the Fanny Goldstein Merit Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries and the Dorothy Schroeder Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries of Southern California. She is on the board of AJLSC.
