It's Hanukkah Time! [School & Library Binding]

Latifa Berry Kropf (Author), Tod Cohen (Illustrator)

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreS–A class of preschoolers prepares for a Hanukkah party by sending invitations to their grandparents, making decorations and gifts, and mixing the batter for sufganiyot (donuts). When their guests arrive, everyone dances, sings, lights Hanukkah candles, and eats the treats. The text is short and simple, and the kids and grandparents are clearly having fun (even if the photos look staged). A recipe for the donuts is included, as well as the English and Hebrew texts for the Hanukkah candle blessings.–E. M.
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From Booklist

PreS. This compact photo-essay, the third in a holiday series, is for preschoolers who already know the story of Hanukkah as the only overview is in a brief paragraph on the copyright page, on which a glossary also appears. Each page has a full-page color photograph featuring a nursery-school group getting ready for a Hanukkah party. The children send dreidel invitations, make picture frames as gifts, hang Jewish stars, and clean their school "like the Maccabees cleaned the Temple." Next they prepare dough for fried doughnuts (the recipe is appended). The guests arrive, and the fun begins--including a game of dreidel. Both adults and children seem to be enjoying themselves in the pictures, which wouldn't look out of place in a family album. For little ones anticipating the holiday. Ilene Cooper
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• School & Library Binding: 24 pages
• Publisher: Kar-Ben Pub (September 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580131204
• ISBN-13: 978-1580131209
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,685,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars laid out more like a photo album instead of a storybook, November 6, 2007

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This review is from: It's Hanukkah Time! (School & Library Binding)

Reviewed by Leslie Granier and Nicholas Lopez (age 5) for Reader Views (10/07)



"It's Hanukkah Time" is a book that follows the preparations of a group of preschoolers who are getting ready for a Hanukkah party with their grandparents. It features numerous photographs of the children making invitations and gifts. It shows them hanging decorations and preparing traditional donuts (sufganiyot). The activities they participated in with their grandparents, such as dancing and reading stories, are also shown.

Nicholas liked looking at the pictures of the children and expressed that "they look like they are having fun." He really wants to make "some of those donuts." (The recipe is included in the book.) He now wants to make decorations for his house this Christmas and have a big party so people can take a lot of pictures and make a book.

"It's Hanukkah Time" is laid out more like a photo album instead of a storybook. I was unsure how children would react to it since they are used to illustrations instead of real photographs. However, I now think it helped to bring out his creative side since he saw that other children accomplished these tasks.

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