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Five Alive

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Five Alive!: My Yom Tov Five Senses is a charming picture book by Dina Rosenfeld about the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Written especially for Jewish children (as it contains references to Jewish religious traditions and celebrations such as Rosh Hashana), Five Alive! is wonderfully enhanced with friendly full-color artwork by Tova Leff. Five Alive! is an thoroughly delightful and enthusiastically recommended easy reader picturebook for children ages 2 to 5.

We like this book - a lot! It does a great job of tying in all the yamim tovim with different senses, and kids love trying to guess which yom tov it is based on the "clues."
I find the rhymes slightly repetitious, and the book is not always the most fun to read. Every single clue ends with "that's how we know that ____ is today." It might have been nice if the author had varied the format slightly, but this is a small thing.
That said, the illustrations are generally sweet and cheerful, and it's hard to find good-quality kids' books that represent ALL of the yamim tovim, not just the well-known ones like Chanukah or the fun ones like Purim.
My kids always seem to have trouble guessing Shavuos, but I appreciate the effort the author has gone to to include every single sense and every single holiday.
Kudos to Hachai Publishing for its quality kids' books - I wish there were more like this one.