The Two Brothers: a Legend of Jerusalem by Neil Waldman Pearl Moscowitz’s Last Stand by Arthur Levine Mayer Aaron Levi and His Lemon Tree by Tami Lehman-Wilzig The Legend of Freedom Hill by Linda Altman Jacobs The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate by Janice CohnĪ Hat for Mrs. Please see the notes and bibliography from my 2002 AJL presentation "Is the Rainbow Fish Jewish?" While in need of updating, this booklist is still valid. Please see the bibliography I posted in June 2017 on this topic. Round is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Thong
Shades of Black: A Celebraton of Our Children by Sandra Pinkney How Sweet the Sound: African American Songs for Chlidren by Cheryl & Wade Hudson Jane Yolen’s How Do Dinosaurs books (interestingly, the Chanukah one is all white humans)ĮXPLICITLY DIVERSE BOOKS (Celebrating specific cultures)īringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema Jonathan and His Mommy Kevin and His Dad by Irene Smalls Uh Oh! Peekaboo Morning By Rachel Isadoraĭaddy, Papa and Me Mommy, Mama and Me by Leslea Newman Love Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Penaġ0 Little Fingers and 10 Little Toes by Mem Fox Not Norman: A Goldfish Story by Kelly Bennett
SmithĪ Kiss Means I Love You by Kathryn Madeline Allen Philip MillerĪ Rainbow All Around Me by Sandra Pinkneyīrown Sugar Babies I Am America by Charles R. The Belly Book, and Happy In Our Skin by Fran Manushkin We're Different, We're the Same by Bobbi KatesĪll the Colors We Are/Todos los Colores de Nuestra Piel by Katie Kissinger Two Eyes, a Nose, and a Mouth by Roberta Grobel Intrater We Are All Alike.We Are All Different by The Cheltenham Elementary School KindergartnersĪll the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka My purpose is to offer a few suggestions to get you started on thinking about books in these categories.
They mostly represent titles in the Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel of Boca Raton, Florida, and the list was compiled by memory without actually visiting the library. These lists are by no means comprehensive.
On Monday Jat the 53rd annual conference of the Association of Jewish Libraries in Boston, MA, I participated in a panel discussion of "Social Justice and Jewish Children's Books." Other panelists included author Lesléa Newman, and Horn Book editors Shoshana Flax and moderator Elissa Gershowitz.Īs mentioned on the podcast, this post offers some titles in the various categories of books that I spoke about during the panel. 🕮 The podcast hiatus is over! I'm thrilled to return to my beloved Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel in Boca Raton, Florida, and to The Book of Life podcast!
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