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The Shabbat Box

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I found the Shabbat Box a charming story, delightfully illustrated. In these times I find it most refreshing to know that our children are reading books that have good old fashioned ideas like family , faith, caring and responsibility.
Ira, a youngster after patiently waiting for his turn at school for the coveted Shabbat Box finally leaves school with this treasure. He loses The Shabbat Box on the way home. Ira's sense of responsibility and diligence in solving this loss of the Shabbat Box on his own teaches many lessons. I especially like the honesty of the little boy who realized how important this treasured Shabbat Box was. Ira made no excuses and was not ashamed to admit he had lost the shabbat box.

Year after year I have been reading this story to my students, and they love it each time. Some of them have the book at home, and yet they love listening to it in class. I usually read it on the same week they get to make their own Shabbat boxes.

My 4-year old loves this book- the story is sweet and the pictures are charming. I love that the little boy in the story takes charge and fixes his problems himself. We'll be making a shabbat box of our own to go with the story.

This is a nice story for classrooms or homes about a shabbat box that gets lost. about fixing the problem with your own resources and finally about shabbat, and all it takes to make it special.

If you are trying to get your child involved in activities at Shabbat, this is great. We made our own Shabbat box at home and my son loves it. We learned about the book thru Preschool where the teachers share the story and then send a Shabbat Box home with one of the children every week so that they can write a little story in a journal and share it on Monday circle time. The story is very cute.

This is a wonderful book which has been enjoyed by my three youngest children, ranging in age from seven to eleven. The illustrations are excellent and conjure up a warm and inviting community. The author invites the reader to look at Shabbat through the contents of the Shabbat Box rather than simply showing a typical Shabbat experience. This stimulated discussion between my sons (and between them and their parents!) regarding the roles of each of the items in the Box and their place in Shabbat.
My kids all identified with parts of Ira's personality; whether it be the longing to have the turn at taking care of the Shabbat Box, the sadness at losing it or the desire to replace that loss with something beautiful rather than just turn up at school on Monday with an excuse for having lost it.
The instructions at the end of the book on how to make your own Shabbat Box were a bonus and we now have two such boxes at home and two more in the making as special gifts to young cousins.