Chil­dren’s

Passover (On My Own Holidays)

Cathy Gold­berg Fish­man; Jeni Reeves, illus.
  • Review
By – December 19, 2011

The sto­ry of the Exo­dus and descrip­tions of Passover rit­u­als and prac­tices are includ­ed in this edi­tion of the On My Own Hol­i­days” series for ear­ly read­ers and stu­dents who strug­gle with read­ing. The illus­tra­tions, in soft, col­ored pen­cil, com­ple­ment the text and a glos­sary is includ­ed. In addi­tion to Hanukkah (also by Fish­man), the series includes Chi­nese New Year, Christ­mas Around the World, Cin­co de Mayo, Ramadan, and Vet­er­ans Day and will be most use­ful to pub­lic and sec­u­lar col­lec­tions. The infor­ma­tion pre­sent­ed is wide­ly avail­able in oth­er sources; how­ev­er, with the short­age of easy read­ers with Jew­ish con­tent, this book fills a need. For ages 6 – 8.

Rachel Kamin has been a syn­a­gogue librar­i­an and Jew­ish edu­ca­tor for over twen­ty-five years and has worked at North Sub­ur­ban Syn­a­gogue Beth El in High­land Park, IL since 2008, cur­rent­ly serv­ing as the Direc­tor of Life­long Learn­ing. A past chair of the Syd­ney Tay­lor Book Award Com­mit­tee and past edi­tor of Book Reviews for Chil­dren & Teens for the Asso­ci­a­tion of Jew­ish Libraries News & Reviews, her arti­cles and book reviews appear in numer­ous pub­li­ca­tions. She has been a mem­ber of the Amer­i­can Library Association’s Sophie Brody Book Award Com­mit­tee since 2021.

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