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Storybooks and coloring pages provide quick and last minute resources throughout the High Holidays.

Find these and more at applesandhoneypress.com. Also available through Amazon, Bookshop.org and other online sites.

Download a selection of coloring pages here.

Rosh Hashanah

Little Red Rosie, by Eric Kimmel. Ages 3-6.In this playful version of The Little Red Hen, a young girl enlists her stuffed animal friends to help make challah for Rosh Hashanah--"An attractive, different take on a holiday tale."-Kirkus Reviews

Kayla

Apples & Honey Press has a growing list of stories for children ages 3-8 that bring Jewish values to life, from Ahavat Tziyon (Love of Israel) and B’tzelem Elohim (Made in the Image of God) to Shalom Bayit (peace in the home) and Tzedakah (Giving Justly).

Ahavat Tziyon (Love of Israel)

• Matzah Ball Chase-Ages 3-6. "This very silly rhyming story...encourages travel, exploration, and learning about one’s heritage." —Association of Jewish Libraries
• Shimri’s Big Idea-Ages 3-7. “Children will appreciate seeing how a boy with a keen eye helps to accomplish great things in this reimagining of biblical history.”— Kirkus Reviews

Apples & Honey Press is proud of its nearly 10 years of work with PJ Library, a program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation that brings Jewish books to more than 220,000 books each month across North America to families raising Jewish children.

This past year, the following sixteen Apples & Honey Press books were chosen by PJ Library and PJ Our Way for its subscription program:

Jonathan Shmidt Chapman shows us how to tell Bible stories to children.

Coming Fall 2025 from author David Sherrin and illustrator Martín Morón, The Baddest Wolf of All?

He's back. But is he badder than ever?

Although he sometimes doubts himself, everyone around Wolf expects him to be BIG and, especially, BAD. Deciding to live up to his name and get really, really good at being really, really bad, he seeks some help from another famous baddie.

His new badness coach, the Evil Queen, instructs Wolf to bring a poisoned apple to Snow White. Easy, Wolf thinks. He just needs to disguise himself as a sweet granny, and Snow White will let him right in! But Snow White is so very kind to Wolf-as-Granny. T

May is Jewish-American Heritage Month, which pays tribute to the generations of Jewish Americans who helped form the fabric of American history, culture and society.

Open a window to the American Jewish experience with these storybooks from Apples & Honey Press.

American-influenced Tall Tales 

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

At Behrman House/Apples & Honey Press we combine individual attention with distribution that has national and international reach.