Lift! Turn! Pull! Learn! shouts the front cov­er of this beau­ti­ful book and right­ly so. Author-illus­tra­tor Emi­ly Sper pars­es the Jew­ish cal­en­dar in well laid out, clear­ly orga­nized, col­or­ful, stur­dy pages. The book intro­duces the con­cepts of days, weeks, months, and a year as Jew­ish time. This book for tots is crammed with infor­ma­tion. Some text is wordy; some vocab­u­lary words too strong for tar­get­ed read­ers, but the mix­ture of Eng­lish, Hebrew and translit­er­a­tion keep the ideas flow­ing. Descrip­tions are fresh and age appro­pri­ate (for exam­ple: heav­en­ly bod­ies as clocks and cal­en­dars, Shab­bat as the time for a deep breath). The con­cepts of time and your actions in it end with a sweet­ly word­ed moral les­son. The bold, artis­tic illus­tra­tions sup­port the words. Every con­cept has an inter­ac­tive activ­i­ty, and, as always, some action pages are eas­i­er to manip­u­late than oth­ers: the turn­ing wheels and liftable flaps move eas­i­ly; the pull-tabs tend to stick. The foil ​“glow” of the Hav­dalah can­dle is inno­v­a­tive­ly used. The vol­ume buries edu­ca­tion in charm and promis­es to be a delight­ful gift and a child pleas­er. Ages 4 – 8.