Seder with the Animals

by Mary K. Bogot and Howard Bogot

Book Overview

This beautiful and charming volume is a perfect way to introduce your youngest Seder guests to the magical themes and wonders of celebration of this sacred time. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881230669
• ISBN13: 9780881230666
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Central Conference of American Rabbis
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A rare treat - a "non-seder" seder story for tots

This book is that rare find - Jewish holiday content that isn't cloyingly, annoyingly Jewish. I think you've seen the other kind of books - "Tim's Family Seder" where some dull kid shows off his family customs, or "A Child's Passover" with boring illustrations and jerky rhymes (hopefully these aren't real titles, just examples!). Here, the Bogots offer gentle, slightly-fantastical short rhymes that take us step by step through seder ritual, showing similar behaviour in the animal world - we wash our hands, raccoons wash their hands. Sometimes the connection seems a little weird ("Horses gallop, horses neigh... taste horseradish the Pesach way." - get it, horses, horseradish?), but by and large, this book is a pleasure to read and the rhymes delightfully refreshing. This book would also make a lovely Passover gift item for hosts with young children (ages 2-6).