Tamar's Sukkah

by Ellie B. Gellman

Overview

Tamar calls on her neighborhood friends to help her build a sukkah in this Kar-Ben favorite back by popular demand with full-color illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512499599
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/2015
Series:	Sukkot & Simchat Torah
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	57 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	6 - 7 Years

About the Author

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Editorial Reviews

K-Gr 2 Tamar is getting ready to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, a fall harvest holiday recalling the time when the Israelites wandered in the desert and lived in huts. Each child in the neighborhood helps her to decorate her sukkah, or booth. When it is decorated to everyone's satisfaction, the friends enjoy some refreshments together. Tamar realizes, ``A sukkah full of friends is quite right. It is exactly what a sukkah should be.'' This very simple text and three-color illustrations convey the fun of Sukkot at a child's level and tells something about cooperation and friendship as well. Ruth Shire, Mount Vernon Pubic Lib . , N.Y.

School Library Journal

"Tamar helped her family build a sukkah, but something's not quite right. Maybe she should hang some apples from the ceiling. But she isn't tall enough to reach, so she gets Danny from next door to help out. He hangs the apples, but something is still not right. Maybe they can get Shelly from across the street to write out the Hebrew blessing? One by one, Tamar gathers other kids from the neighborhood, each a little older than the last, to add more things to the sukkah. But the thing that makes it just right? When it's full of friends! The illustrations add little and are often somewhat static, but the story is sweet and the message of teamwork and inclusion is not to be discounted. A short end page explains the holiday of Sukkot." — Booklist Online

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