Picture Books
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Micah loved the noise maker, known as a gragger, that he used at his family's Purim party. With it they celebrated the defeat of the wicked Haman, a bully from biblical times who tried to get rid of the Jews. The gragger made him feel mighty! But on his way home, the gragger was lost.
This is the context of Mighty Micah, a new Purim picture book by bestselling author Jane Yolen.
Micah was nervous that without his gragger, he wouldn't be able to be brave, like Queen Esther.
However, his gragger was powerful. It journeyed from a raccoon's hands, to a fish's mouth, to a heron's beak, back to Micah's front steps.
Joyful at the return of his gragger, Micah takes it to school to show the class, so everyone could feel its mighty whirr, whirr, whirr, and they too could feel powerful and safe.
Also included is a note from the author with a brief summary
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Created in 2015 as an imprint of Behrman House, Apples & Honey Press features stories for babies through kids aged 12 and up formatted as picture books, board, books, early and middle grade chapter books, graphic novels, as well as some YA nonfiction. Although many Apples & Honey Press stories are overtly Jewish, our goal is to spotlight universal themes that speak to children (and parents) from any faith while celebrating the diversity in culture, experience, and background that contribute to the richness of the world all around us.
We publish well-known authors and discover new ones. Our list includes books by Eric Kimmel, Jane Yolen, Johanna Hurwitz, Barbara Diamond Goldman, David Adler, Leslie Kimmelman, Tammar Stein, Emma Berne, and Stephen Krensky, to list
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Posted: August 15, 2023|
Ask your local bookstore or library about Big Bad Wolf's Yom Kippur, or find it on:
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Fall books for 2023 from Apples and Honey Press feature holiday stories for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot; a new version of the creation story that centers Eve’s experience; a look at Shabbat in the Ugandan Abuyadaya community; a quiet bedtime sh’ma experience for very young children; a story of Jewish conversos in Portugal in the 1500’s; and a more in depth look at David’s victory over Goliath.
Tzimmes for Tzipporah
Pictu
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1 Fun Thing: Apples & Honey Press released its 100th book last month with two chapter books: Golem Goes to Camp, by Todd Gutnick, and The Unexpected Adventures of C.A.T. by Johanna Hurwitz. Released the same day, they tie for the honor of being #100.
The big picture: Created in 2015, Apples
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Apples & Honey Press is honored and delighted to have four titles make the list of the 2023 Edition of Bank Street College of Education’s “Best Children’s Books of the Year”!
This list “includes more than 600 titles chosen by the Children’s Book Committee as the best of the best published in 2022.” Apples & Honey Press titles were featured in four different categories between two age lists.
Family/School/Community, ages 5-9
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Apples & Honey Press has four new children's stories coming out this month.
Picture Books
By Rona Novick, PhD, illustrated by Ana Sebastian
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