Passover: Jewish Celebration of Freedom (First Facts)

Features

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Library Binding: 24 pages
• Published by: Capstone Press September 1, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0736863974
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0736863971
• Book Dimensions: 8.3 x 8.1 x 0.3 inches
• Weighs: 8 ounces

From School Library Journal
Grade 1-3–This title provides extremely basic information in a simple text. While the facts are accurate, the lack of detail or context renders them almost meaningless. Jewish readers will gain little insight, and non-Jewish children will be neither enlightened nor intrigued. Full-color stock images are large and clearly reproduced on attractively designed pages. However, the image choices seem somewhat random: readers see a mixture of Western families, one unidentified photograph of a dark-skinned family with a colorful, basketlike seder plate, and several unidentified paintings in which depictions of the ancient Hebrews range from men in togas to a crowd in medieval garb and armor. This odd assortment does not advance a coherent image of Passover. An Amazing Holiday Story mentions an annual food drive in Toronto–nice, but hardly amazing. An afikomen-holder craft is less than inspired. Readers are instructed to visit FactHound.com for related Web sites, but doing so leads to an oddly mixed assortment of sites and books on Passover and Hanukkah. Readers will be better off with Cathy Goldberg Fishman's On Passover (S & S, 1997) for flavor, or Anita Ganeri's The Passover Story (Smart Apple Media, 2004) for facts.–Heidi Estrin, Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel, Boca Raton, FL
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Product Description
Describes the history and meaning of the Jewish holiday known as Passover and how it is celebrated today.