It's Hanukkah Time!

by Latifa Berry Kropf

Book Overview

This photo essay shows preschoolers celebrating with their grandparents at a Hanukkah party. Vibrant full-color photos show students lighting the menorah, playing dreidel and telling the story of Judah Maccabee. This book is ideal for helping educators initiate Hanukkah celebrations in their own classrooms and kids will love seeing children their own age in the pictures. A perfect companion to It's Challah Time and It's Sukkah Time

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761383069
• ISBN13: 9780761383062
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.5" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 2 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Fun book!

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.