In a straight­for­ward pic­ture dic­tio­nary, My First Yid­dish Word Book intro­duces young chil­dren to Yid­dish. While none of the char­ac­ters in the illus­tra­tions are in a syn­a­gogue or wear­ing kip­pot, this book does include every­day Yid­dish vocab­u­lary in cat­e­gories such as ​“Fam­i­ly” or ​“Clothes” or ​“Zoo.” The begin­ning of the book has a pro­nun­ci­a­tion guide and at the end there is a glos­sary which both help out juve­nile read­ers. The words that are men­tioned in the text are in Yid­dish, translit­er­a­tion, and Eng­lish to help read­ers with pro­nun­ci­a­tion and under­stand­ing the def­i­n­i­tions. The illus­tra­tions are col­or­ful and car­toon-like, but there are no sen­tences describ­ing how to use the Yid­dish words in the con­text of writ­ing or con­ver­sa­tion. Since there are not a lot of Yid­dish books writ­ten for chil­dren in book­stores or libraries right now, this book is valu­able to have on the shelf. Ages 4 and up.