Chil­dren’s

Light the Menorah

Jan­nie Ho, illus.
  • Review
By – October 10, 2011
Light the Meno­rah is a pull the tab board book filled with inac­cu­ra­cies about Hanukah. For exam­ple, We light our meno­rah to remem­ber the Mac­cabees.” When the Jew­ish tem­ple was destroyed, the Mac­cabees had to rebuild it.” On the sixth day the chil­dren give presents to the boys and girls in our neigh­bor­hood.” Each night the chil­dren say prayers over t he meno­rah” and cov­er their eyes as if light­ing Shab­bat can­dles. The full page illus­tra­tions are col­or­ful and com­pli­ment the text, but the unin­ter­est­ing, almost iden­ti­cal pull tabs (yel­low flames for the meno­rah can­dles) add noth­ing to the enjoy­ment of the book. Not recommended.
Ilka Gor­don has a Mas­ters in Edu­ca­tion from Boston Uni­ver­si­ty and an M.L.I.S. from Kent State Uni­ver­si­ty. She is a librar­i­an at Sie­gal Col­lege of Juda­ic Stud­ies in Cleveland.

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