Not Your Zayde’s Kid’s Books

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1.Fiction

2. Spirituality

3. Slice of Life

4. Nonfiction

5.Humor/Yiddishkeit

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Mission Control to Mars by C. B. Gavant

Menucha Publishing

Where's My Tushy? by Deborah Aronson (Author), Ivica Stevanovic (Illustrator) Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (January 5, 2014) Kar-Ben

Favorites

Lauren Yanofsky Hates the Holocaust by Leanne

Lieberman Publisher: Orca Book

Publishers (April 1, 2013)

Fiction

Small Medium at Large by Joanne Levy (Author)

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens (July 3, 2012)

Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch (Author) Amulet Paperbacks (October 1,

2012)

OyMG by Amy Fellner Dominy (Author) Publisher: Walker &

Company (May 10, 2011)

Fiction

Spirituality/Fiction

Netta and Her Plant by Ellie B. Gellman (Author), Natascia

Ugliano (Illustrator) Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing (January 1,

2014)

Happy Birthday, Tree!: A Tu B'Shevat Story by Madelyn

Rosenberg(Author), Jana Christy (Illustrator) Publisher: Albert

Whitman & Company(August 1, 2012)

Lotsa Matzah by Tilda Balsley (Author), Akemi Gutierrez

(Illustrator) Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing (January 1, 2013)

Spirituality/Fiction

Here Is the World: A Year of Jewish Holidays by Lesléa Newman (Author), Susan Gal

(Illustrator) Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers (September 2, 2014)

It's A..It's A..It's A Mitzvah by Elizabeth Suneby (Author),

Diane Heiman (Author) Publisher: Jewish Lights (May 1, 2012)

The Mitzvah Magician by Linda Elovitz Marshall (Author), Christiane Engel (Illustrator)

Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing (August 1, 2012)

Spirituality/Fiction

The Story of Esther: A Purim Tale by Eric A. Kimmel (Author), Jill

Weber (Illustrator) Publisher: Holiday House (February

1, 2011)

Honeyky Hanukah by Woody Guthrie (Author), Dave Horowitz (Illustrator)

Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young

Readers (September 23, 2014)

The Shabbat Puppy by Leslie Kimmelman

(Author), Jaime Zollars (Illustrator)

Publisher: Two Lions (March 20, 2012)

Yiddishkeit/Humor

Can Hens Give Milk? by Joan Betty Stuchner and Joe Weissmann

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers (March 1, 2013)

Ziggy's Big Idea by Ilana Long (Author), Rasa Joni (Illustrator) Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing

(January 1, 2014)

Oy, Feh, So? by Cary Fagan and Gary Clement Publisher:

Groundwood Books (April 9, 2013)

Humor/ Yiddishkeit

Beautiful Yetta: The Yiddish Chicken by Daniel Pinkwater and Jill Pinkwater Publisher: Feiwel

& Friends (May 25, 2010)

Rifka Takes a Bow by Betty Rosenberg Perlov and Cosei Kawa

Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing (August 1, 2013)

Estie the Mensch by Jane Kohuth (Author), Rosanne Litzinger

(Illustrator) Publisher: Random House BFYR (August 23, 2011)

Slice of Life and

Nonfiction

Mira in the Present Tense by Sita Brahmachari (Author)

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company; 1st edition (September

1, 2013)

Julia's Kitchen by Brenda Ferber Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

(March 21, 2006)

I Live with My Mommy by Tzvia Ehrlich-Klein (Author), Dena Ackerman

(Drawings) Publisher: Menucha Publishers (2014)

Slice of Life and

NonFiction

ZAYDE COMES TO LIVE by Sheri Sinykin (illustrated by Kristina

Swarner) Peachtree 2012

Mendy of Siberia by Ella

Verzov and Chana Oirechman Menucha Publishers

Always an Olivia: A Remarkable

Family History (Jewish Identity) by

Carolivia Herron (Author), Jeremy

Tugeau (Illustrator) Kar-Ben

Publishing; Reissue edition (January

1, 2012)

Nonfiction Biography

Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer – Trina Robbins Publisher: Graphic Universe (November 2011)

Goldie Takes a Stand: Golda Meir’s First Crusade by Barbara Krasner (Author),

Kelsey Garrity-riley (Illustrator) Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing (August 1, 2014)

Annie Shapiro and the Clothing

Workers' Strike by Marlene Targ

Brill (Author), Jamel Akib

(Illustrator)

Publisher: Lerner Classroom

(October 1, 2010)

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