Customer Reviews

Alef-Bet: A Hebrew Alphabet Book

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
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I got this book because I was searching for a very simple introduction to the Hebrew alphabet for my 3 year old. It is great in that regard, but I really dislike the illustrations.

I purchased this book for my six year old son who has recently has a peaked interest in the hebrew alphabet. It is a beautiful book and exactly what I wanted. I was simply looking for a aleph-bet book that had a picture page per letter but it wasn't so easy to find. Even our local Judaica shop carried nothing. I was so pleased to find this and even more excited to see the quality and adorable illustrations once it arrived. I highly recommend it.

Alef-Beth by Michelle Edwards is a really cute book with fun illustrations. Each page of the book features a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet with its English, phoenetic pronunciation. Also, each page gives an example of a Hebrew word that begins with the featured letter. The book includes illustrations of the words and often an illustration will cover two pages and exemplify two words.

I really enjoyed reading the book and enjoyed the illustrations. I gave the book four rather than five stars, however, because I would have preferred it if the book associated more commonly used words with the Hebrew alphabet letters. For instance, zah-KAHN, beard, is the word in the book that corresponds to the letter zayin. Needless to say, I don't use the word "beard" in my everyday language, so I would have preferred it if the book associated a word used more commonly in everyday language with zayin. However, KOH-vah, hat, corresponds with kaf and yahd, hand, corresponds with yod, which I found to be more useful associations.