Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education

Educational Resources

Special Collections

Kossman Early Childhood Collection

Abeel, Samantha, Reach for the Moon

Adler, David A., The House on the Roof: A Sukkot Story

Altman, Linda Jacobs, The Legend of Freedom Hill

Aronin, Ben, The Secret of the Sabbath Fish

Auld, Mary, Joseph and His Brothers

Auld, Mary, Moses in the Bulrushes

Auld, Mary, The Story of Jonah

Bar-Nissim, Barbara, The Jews: One People

Barner, Bob, To Everything

Bendet, Mayer, Shabbos Treats that Grew

Bendet, Mayer, What Happened to Crazy Yosel?

Bernstein, Robin, Terrible, Terrible

Blitz, Shmuel, Bedtime Stories of Jewish Holidays

Blitz, Shmuel, A Treasury of Jewish Bedtime Stories

Blue, Rose, Good Yontif: A Picture Book of the Jewish Year

Bogot, Howard I., Peace

Bogot, Howard & Daniel B. Syme, I Learn About God

Bogot, Howard I. & Mary K. Bogot, Seder with the Animals

Bogot, Howard I. & Mary K. Bogot, Seven Animals Wag Their Tales

Brin, Ruth F., The Story of Esther

Brodmann, Aliana, The Gift

Burstein, Chaya, 10 Great Jewish Children’s Stories: A Look and Learn Book

Burstein, Chaya, A Kids Catalog of Israel (updated)

Carlstrom, Nancy White, Does God Know How to Tie Shoes?

Carmi, Giora, And Shira Imagined

Cedarbaum, Sophia N., A First Book of Jewish Holidays

Chaiken, Miriam, Esther

Chanover, Hyman & Alice, Pesah is Coming!

Chanover, Hyman & Alice, Pesah is Here!

Cohen, Barbara, The Carp in the Bathtub

Cohen, Barbara, First Fast (and accompanying teacher’s guide)

Cohen, Barbara, Make a Wish, Molly ? A Companion to Molly's Pilgrim

Cohen, Barbara, Molly’s Pilgrim

Cohen, Barbara, The Secret Grove

Cohen, Floreva, My Special Friend

Cone, Molly, Hear, O Israel: First I Say the Shema

Cooks, Roberta Goldshlag, Gittel and the Bell

Corwin, Judith Hoffman, Jewish Holiday Fun

Cousins, Lucy, Noah’s Ark

Cowan, Paul, A Torah is Written

Davis, Aubrey and Dusan Petricic, Bone Button Borscht

Day, Malcolm, The Ancient World of the Bible

de Paola, Tomie, My First Passover

Devorah-Leah, Shabbos is Coming! We’re Lost in the Zoo

Dolphin, Laurie, Neve Shalom, Wahat Al Salam, Oasis of Peace

Donahue, Shari Faden, Celebrate Hanukkah with Me

Dooley, Norah, Everybody Bakes Bread

Dr. Seuss, The Lorax (includes cassette)

Drucker, Malka, The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays

Drucker, Malka, Grandma's Latkes

Edwards, Michelle, Alef-Bet: A Hebrew Alphabet Book

Eisenberg, Ann, Bible Heroes I Can Be

Elias, Miriam L., Special Days are Wonderful ? A Guessing Game Book

Elkins, Dov Peretz, Seven Delightful Stories for Every Day

Epstein, Sylvia B., How the Rosh Hashanah Challah Became Round

Feder, Harriet K., Judah Who Always Said "No!"

Feinberg, Miriam P., Just Enough Room

Feinberg, Miriam P., A Yom Kippur Think

Fettman, Surie, My Shabbos 1, 2, 3's

Figley, Marty Rhodes, Noah’s Wife

Fisher, Adam, God’s Garden

Fishman, Cathy Goldberg, On Hanukkah

Fishman, Cathy Goldberg, On Passover

Fishman, Cathy Goldberg, On Purim

Fishman, Cathy Goldberg, On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Forest, Heather, A Big Quiet House: A Yiddish Folktale from Eastern Europe

Fox, Mem, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

Gantz, David, Davey's Hanukkah Golem

Ganz, Yaffa, Follow the Moon: A Journey through the Jewish Year

Ganz, Yaffa, From Head to Toe: A Book About You

Ganz, Yaffa, Purim with Bina, Benny, and Chaggai Hayonah

Ganz, Yaffa, Where Are You, Hashem?

Ganz, Yaffa, The Wonderful World We Live In

Gellman, Ellie, Tamar’s Sukkah

Gellman, Marc, God’s Mailbox: More Stories About Stories in the Bible

Gellman, Marc and Thomas Hartman, Lost & Found: A Kid’s Book for Living through Loss

Gelman, Rita Golden, Queen Esther Saves Her People

Gershator, Phillis, Honi's Circle of Trees

Gerstein, Mordecai, Jonah and the Two Great Fish

Gerstein, Mordecai, Queen Esther, The Morning Star

Gikow, Louise, Kippi and the Missing Matzah

Gilman, Phoebe, Something From Nothing

Ginsburg, Marvell, The Tatooed Torah

Glaser, Linda, The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes

Gold, Yeshara, Hurry, Friday’s a Short Day

Gold-Yukson, Marji, The Colors of My Jewish Year

Goldin, Barbara Diamond, Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale

Goldin, Barbara Diamond, Night Lights

Goldin, Barbara Diamond, Ten Holiday Jewish Children’s Stories

Goldin, Barbara Diamond, The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion

Goldin, Barbara Diamond, While the Candles Burn: Eight Stories for Hanukkah

Goldin, Barbara Diamond, The World's Birthday: A Rosh Hashanah Story

Goldreich, Gloria, Ten Traditional Jewish Children’s Stories

Goldstein-Alpern, Neva, The Beginning of the World

Gottlieb, Yaffa Leba, The Shushan Chronicle: The Story of Purim Based on the Midrash

Greenberg, Melanie Hope, Blessings, Our Jewish Ceremonies

Greenberg, Blu and Linda Tarry, King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Greenberg, Melanie Hope, Celebrations, Our Jewish Holidays

Greene, Jacqueline Dembar, Nathan's Hanukkah Bargain

Grimm, The Brothers, Hansel and Gretel (In Hebrew as Ami Ve Tami)

Grinblatt, Julio, Ha-Bayit Sheli - Beersheva

Grinblatt, Julio, Ha-Bayit Sheli - Haifa

Grinblatt, Julio, Ha-Bayit Sheli - Jerusalem

Grinblatt, Julio, Ha-Bayit Sheli - Tel Aviv

Grinblatt, Julio, Ha-Bayit Sheli - Zikron Yakov

Grishaver, Joel Lurie, Building Jewish Life: Hanukkah

Grishaver, Joel Lurie, Building Jewish Life: Shabbat

Groner, Judye and Madeline Wikler, All About Hanukkah

Groner, Judye and Madeline Wikler, All About Sukkot

Groner, Judye and Madeline Wikler, Where is the Afikomen?

Groner, Judyth and Madeline Wikler, All About Passover

Groner, Judyth and Madeline Wikler, Come, Let Us Welcome Shabbat

Groner, Judyth and Madeline Wikler, Thank You God: A Jewish Child's Book of Prayers

Gross, Judith, Celebrate: A Book of Jewish Holidays

Gross, Ted William, Of Rabbit’s Wool and Camel’s Hair

Gurko, Miriam, Theodor Herzl, the Road to Israel

Hautzig, Esther, Riches

Hayward, Linda, Baby Moses

Herman, Charlotte, How Yussel Caught the Gefilte Fish

Hest, Amy, When Jessie Came Across the Sea

Heymsfeld, Carla, The Matzah Ball Fairy

Holland, Cheri, Maccabee Jamboree, A Hanukkah Countdown

Houghton, Eric, The Crooked Apple Tree

Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane, Celebrating Hanukkah

Jaffe, Nina, In the Month of Kislev

Jaffe, Nina, The Mysterious Visitor: Stories of the Prophet Elijah

Jaffe, Nina, The Uninvited Guest and Other Jewish Holiday Tales

Jones, Sally Lloyd, Moses in the Bulrushes

Jules, Jacqueline, Once Upon a Shabbos

Kahn, Katherine Janus, The Purim Parade

Kahn, Katherine Janus, The Shofar Calls to Us

Karlinsky, Isaiah and Ruth Schild Karlinsky, My First Book of Mitzvos

Katz, Bobbi, The Story of Hanukkah

Katz, Bobbi, The Story of Passover

Kimmel, Eric A., Days of Awe: Stories for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Kimmel, Eric A., Gershon’s Monster

Kimmel, Eric A., A Hanukkah Treasury

Kimmel, Eric A., The Magic Dreidels

Kimmel, Eric A., When Mindy Saved Hanukkah

Kimmelman, Leslie, Hooray! It's Passover!

Kimmelman, Leslie, Sound the Shofar

Kolatch, Alfred J., The Jewish Child's First Book of Why

Kosman, Miriam R., Red, Blue and Yellow Yarn: A Tale of Forgiveness

Kress, Camille, Let There Be Lights

Kress, Camille, Purim!

Kress, Camille, Tot Shabbat

Krulik, Nancy E., Penny and the Four Questions

Lachner, Dorothea, Andrew’s Angry Words

Lamstein, Sarah Marwil, Annie’s Shabbat

Lanton, Sandy, Daddy's Chair

Le Tord, Bijou, Sing a New Song: A Book of Psalms

Lebovics, Aydel, The Teeny Tiny Yarmulke

Lemelman, Martin, Illustrator, The Jewish Holiday Book

Lemelman, Martin, Illustrator, My Jewish Home

Lepon, Shoshana, Hillel Builds A House

Lepon, Shoshana, Noah and the Rainbow

Levin, Carol, A Rosh Hashanah Walk

Levin, Miriam Ramsfelder, In the Beginning

Levinson, Riki, Watch the Stars Come Out

Levoy, Myron, The Hanukkah of Great?Uncle Otto

Lieberman, Syd, The Wise Shoemaker of Studena

Lipson, Ruth, Shabbos is Coming

Little, Emily, David and the Giant

Manushkin, Fran, The Matzah that Papa Brought Home

Manushkin, Fran, Miriam’s Cup - The Passover Story

Manushkin, Fran, Starlight and Candles: The Joys of The Sabbath

Marcus, Audrey Friedman and Raymond A. Zwerin, But This Night is Different: A Seder Experience

Medoff, Francine, The Mouse in the Matzah Factory

Miller, Deborah Uchill, Only Nine Chairs: A Tall Tale for Passover

Mochizuki, Ken, Passage to Freedom

Modesitt, Jeanne, It’s Hanukkah!

Morris, Ann, Bread, Bread, Bread

Morris, Ann, Hats, Hats, Hats

Moss, Marissa, The Ugly Menorah

Musleah, Rachel, Why on This Night?

Musleah, Rachel and Michael Klayman, Sharing Blessings

Nerlove, Miriam, Purim

Newman, Leslea, Matzo Ball Moon

Newman, Leslea, Remember That

Oberman, Sheldon, The Always Prayer Shawl

Oberman, Sheldon, By the Hanukkah Light

Olidort, Baila, Quarters and Dimes and Nickels and Pennies

Perl, Lila, Molly Picon, The Gift of Laughter

Pertig, F., Messes of Dresses

Pessin, Deborah, The Aleph-Bet Story Book

Pfister, Marcus, Milo and the Magical Stones

Podwal, Mark, The Book of Tens

Podwal, Mark, The Menorah Story

Polacco, Patricia, The Butterfly

Polacco, Patricia, Mrs. Katz and Tush

Polacco, Patricia, Tikvah Means Hope

Polacco, Patricia, The Trees of the Dancing Goats

Pomerantz, Barbara, Bubby, Me, and Memories

Pomerantz, Barbara, Who Will Lead Kiddush?

Portnoy, Mindy Avra, Matzah Ball: A Passover Story

Portnoy, Mindy Avra, Mommy Never Went to Hebrew School

Prenzlau, Sheryl, The Jewish Children’s Bible: Genesis

Prose, Francine, The Angel’s Mistake: Stories of Chelm

Prose, Francine, The Demon’s Mistake: A Story from Chelm

Prose, Francine, You Never Know

Pushker, Gloria Teles, Toby Belfer's Seder: A Passover Story Retold

Rael, Elsa Okon, When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street

Reisman, Ofra, Challot for Shabbat

Reisman, Ofra, Eliyahu’s Cup

Reisman, Ofra, If Not Higher

Reisman, Ofra, Rabbi Chanina and the Beautiful Brown Hen

Reisman, Ofra, Shimon’s Field and the Public Road

Reisman, Ofra, Trees Grow in Eretz Israel

Reisman, Ofra, The Rabbi and the Lion

Reudor, The Doodled Family Haggadah

Rosen, Michale J., A Thanksgiving Wish

Rosenblum, Richard, The Old Synagogue

Rosenfeld, Dina, Peanut Butter and Jelly for Shabbos

Rosenfeld, Dina, The Very Best Book

Rosenfeld, Dina Herman, The Very Best Place for a Penny

Rosenfeld, Dina, Yossi and Laibel on the Ball

Ross, Lillian Hammer, Buba Leah and Her Paper Children

Ross, Lillian Hammer, The Little Old Man and His Dreams

Rothero, Chris, Moses in the Bulrushes

Rouss, Sylvia A., Fun with Jewish Holiday Rhymes

Rouss, Sylvia A., Sammy Spider's First Passover

Rouss, Sylvia A., Sammy Spider’s First Purim

Rouss, Sylvia A., Sammy Spider’s First Rosh Hashanah

Rouss, Sylvia A., Sammy Spider's First Shabbat

Rouss, Sylvia A., Sammy Spider’s First Tu B’Shevat

Rush, Barbara and Cherie Karo Schwartz, The Kids’ Catalog of Passover: A Worldwide Celebration

Ruthen, Gerald C., Daniel and the Silver Flute

Sagasti, Miriam, Let’s Have a Seder

Sanfield, Steve, Strudel, Strudel, Strudel

Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg, For Heaven’s Sake

Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg, God in Between

Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg, God Said Amen

Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg, God's Paintbrush

Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg, In God's Name

Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg, Prayer for the Earth: The Story of Naamah, Noah’s Wife

Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg, What is God’s Name?

Saypol, Judyth Robbins and Madeline Wikler, Come Let Us Welome Shabbat

Schanzer, Rosalyn, Escaping to America: A True Story

Schanzer, Rosalyn, Where is the Afikomen?

Scharfstein, Chana, The Little Leaf

Scharfstein, Sol, Let’s Do a Mitzvah!

Schilder, Rosaline, Dayenu or How Uncle Murray Saved the Seder

Schimmel, Schim, Dear Children of the Earth

Schotter, Roni, Passover Magic

Schwartz, Amy, Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks

Schwartz, Amy, Yossel Zissel and the Wisdom of Chelm

Schwartz, Betty, Where’s My Dreidel?

Schweiger-D’miel, Itzhak, Hanna’s Sabbath Dress

Segal, Eliezer Lorne, Uncle Eli’s Passover Haggadah

Shain, Fayga, Shlomo Hamelech and the Ashmedai: Jewish Educational Agados for Young and Old

Sherman, Eileen Bluestone, Monday in Odessa

Siegel, Bruce H., The Magic of Kol Nidre: A Yom Kippur Story

Silberg, Rabbi Francis Barry, The Story of Passover for Children

Silberman, Shoshana, Tiku Shofar

Silverman, Erica, Gittel's Hands

Silverman, Erica, Raisel’s Riddle

Silverman, Maida, Festival of Freedom: The Story of Passover

Silverman, Maida, Israel: The Founding of a Modern Nation

Silverman, Maida, My First Book of Jewish Holidays

Simon, Norma, The Story of Passover

Spier, Peter, The Book of Jonah

Snyder, Carol, God Must Like Cookies, Too

Steinberg, Sari, King Solomon Figures It Out

Steiner, Connie Colker, On Eagle's Wings and Other Things

Swartz, Daniel J., Bim and Bom: A Shabbat Tale

Swartz, Nancy Sohn, In Our Image - God’s First Creatures

Tabs, Judy and Barbara Steinberg, Matzah Meals

Tanner, Suzy Jane, Great Hanukkah Party, The

Tobias, Tobi, Pot Luck

Topek, Susan Remick, A Costume for Noah

Topek, Susan Remick, Israel Is . . .

Topek, Susan Remick, Shalom Shabbat: A Book for Havdalah

Topek, Susan Remick, Shavua Tov - A Good Week

Topek, Susan Remick, A Taste for Noah

Topek, Susan Remick, Ten Good Rules

Tubb, Jonathan N., Bible Lands

Udry, Janice May, A Tree is Nice

Waldman, Neil, The Golden City

Waldman, Neil, The Never-Ending Greenness

Waldman, Neil, The Two Brothers

Waxman, Sydell, The Rooster Prince

Weilerstein, Sadie Rose, The Best of K'tonton

Weilerstein, Sadie Rose, K'tonton's Sukkot Adventure

Weilerstein, Sadie Rose, K'tonton's Yom Kippur Kitten

Wikler, Madeline and Judye Groner, I Have Four Questions

Wikler, Madeline and Judye Groner, My First Seder

Wildsmith, Brian, Joseph

Wilkowski, Susan, Baby’s Bris

Williams, Marcia, Joseph and His Magnificent Coat of Many Colors

Wolkstein, Diane, Esther's Story

Wood, Douglas, Grandad’s Prayers of the Earth

Wood, Douglas, Old Turtle

Yolen, Jane, Jerusalem

Zalben, Jane Breskin, Beni's First Chanukah

Zalben, Jane Breskin, Beni’s First Wedding

Zalben, Jane Breskin, Goldie's Purim

Zalben, Jane Breskin, Happy Passover, Rosie

Zalben, Jane Breskin, Leo and Blossom's Sukkah

Zalben, Jane Breskin, Papa’s Latkes

Zalben, Jane Breskin, Pearl Plants a Tree

Zalben, Jane Breskin, Pearl’s Eight Days of Chanukah

Zalben, Jane Breskin, Pearl’s Marigolds for Grandpa

Zeldis, Yona, God Sent a Rainbow and Other Bible Stories

Zellman, Sela and Brigette Evans, The Man with Many Telephones

Ziefert, Harriet, Eight Days of Hanukkah

Zusman, Evelyn, The Passover Parrot

Zwerin, Raymond A. and Audrey Friedman Marcus, Shabbat Can Be