Books for Kids: Jewish American Heritage Month

Children

May is Jewish Heritage Month. Check out some of these titles to celebrate throughout the month!

Picture Books

Koala Challah by Laura Gehl
Big Dreams, Small Fish by Paula Cohen
Bubbe and Bart’s Matzoh Ball Mayhem by Bonnie Grubman
Klezmer! by Kyra Teis.
Gittel’s Journey by Leslea Newman

Beautiful Yetta: the Yiddish Chicken by Daniel Pinkwater

Middle Grade Fiction

A Ceiling Made of Eggshells by Gail Carson Levine
Chunky
by Yehudi Mercado
How to find what you’re not looking for by Veera Hiranandani
Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar.
No Vacancy by Tziporah Cohen
Eddie Whatever by Lois Ruby.

Non-Fiction & Biographies

The Language of Angels: a Story about the Reinvention of Hebrew by Richard Michelson
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes her Mark by Debbie Levy

The People’s Painter : How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art by Cynthia Levinson

Nicky & Vera: a Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued by Peter Sís
Osnat and Her Dove : the True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi by Sigal Samuel
The Book Rescuer : How a Mensch From Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come by Sue Macy