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    Hei­di Estrin

    Hei­di Estrin is librar­i­an for the Feld­man Chil­dren’s Library at Con­gre­ga­tion B’nai Israel in Boca Raton, FL. She is a past chair of the Syd­ney Tay­lor Book Award Com­mit­tee for the Asso­ci­a­tion of Jew­ish Libraries.
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    Goldilocks and the 3 Bears: Lev­el 2: Learn Hebrew Through Fairy Tales
    David Burke; Migs Sandoval, illus.
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    Beau­ty and the Beast: Lev­el 3: Learn Hebrew Through Fairy Tales
    David Burke; Migs Sandoval, illus.
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    Non­fic­tion
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    Hara E. Person; Faye Tillis Lewy z”l; Dahlia Schoenberg-Lam, illus.
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    Fan­tas­tic Foto Hunt: Chanukah
    The Judaica Press
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    Angels Among Us
    Leena Lane; Elena Baboni, illus.
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    The Mag­ic Pome­gran­ate: A Jew­ish Folktale
    Peninnah Schram; Melanie Hall, illus.
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    How Mama Brought the Spring
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    Freefall
    Anna Levine
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    Mark Pod­w­al
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    Hal Marcovitz
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    A Shout in the Sunshine
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    Linda Heller; Boris Kulikov, illus.
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    Out of Egypt
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