Barbara Diamond Goldin, illus. by Gina Capaldi. Apples & Honey, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-68115-527-2
This story unfolds not in the American west but in Argentina during the early 20th century. Jacob and his family have emigrated from a Russian shtetl to a farm in the pampas, where he befriends Benito, a young gaucho. The story that ensues is...
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Neil Waldman, Illustrator Puffin Books $7.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-14-056131-9
""Offering both an authoritative guide and a well-crafted story, Golden thoughtfully and elegantly explains the traditions of Passover,"" said PW in a starred review; ""Waldman's radiant watercolors underscore the changing moods of the text."" All...
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Neil Waldman, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $15.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-670-82421-2
Offering both an authoritative guide and a well-crafted story, Goldin ( Just Enough Is Plenty ; Cakes and Miracles ) thoughtfully and elegantly explains the traditions of Passover. She sets the stage by recounting Moses and the Israelites' journey...
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Erika Weihs, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-83047-3
Set in an unnamed Eastern European village, this story of the joyous Jewish holiday of Purim has all the richness and the cadence of a classic folktale. Young Hershel may be blind, but he has plenty of spunk, and he's determined to help his mother...
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Dena Wallenstein Neusner, Editor, Elaine Greenstein, Illustrator Puffin Books $6.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-14-037341-7
Commenting on the ""sunny"" monocut illustrations, PW praised the unusual breadth of these eight ""imaginative selections,"" one for each night of the holiday. All ages. (Oct.)
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Jeanette Winter, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-299648-2
Daniel wants to celebrate the Jewish New Year in terms that a child can truly comprehend--a birthday party. He convinces his family of the rightness of his plan, even though his older sister Naomi pooh-poohs it. Daniel even invites Mr. Gutman, the...
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Laurie Sucher, Illustrator Urj Press $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8074-0803-2
Barbara Diamond Goldin's 1995 picture book Night Lights: A Sukkot Story is being reissued, with new illustrations by Laura Sucher. Goldin smoothly blends her contemporary story, about a boy's fears of sleeping under the open roof of his family ...
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Avi Katz, Illustrator , illus. by Avi Katz. Marshall Cavendish $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5355-0
The Knoodles (as in, they don’t use theirs) have pondered the rabbi’s comment about giving the perfect gift (“one that will last forever”) and, wanting to do right, set about choosing the best presents for each other. The...
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Elaine Greenstein, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-670-85875-0
With its informative introduction and imaginative selection of little-known folktales and a few of Goldin's (Cakes and Miracles) original stories, this generously illustrated book is the likeliest gift book of the season's Hanukkah offerings. Goldin
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Seymour Chwast, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-81852-5
Malka and her brother Zalman are worried. Money is tight. Mama has invited fewer people to celebrate Hanukkah with them, while Papa has implied that there might not be even a kopek for Hanukkah money. As they light the first candle that night, there
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, illus. by Jaime Zollars, Marshall Cavendish, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5701-5
In this newly illustrated and condensed version of Goldin's 1991 title of the same name, young Hershel's "blindness did not keep him from going to school, or shaking pears from the neighbor's tree, or catching frogs in the river." Still, his mother...
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Will Hillenbrand, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-200438-5
Coyote, a frequent star of Native American trickster tales, puts his imagination into overdrive to bring fire to a tribe in the Pacific Northwest. Such a feat should be easy for the super-confident Coyote-all he has to do is outwit the three awful...
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Erika Weiths, Illustrator, Erika Weihs, Illustrator Puffin Books $4.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-054871-6
An angel inspires blind Hershel to make the loveliest hamantashen in the village; PW said that this holiday story ``has all the richness and cadence of a classic folktale.'' Ages 3-8. (Jan.)
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, I. L. Peretz, Author, Robert Andrew Parker, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-84840-9
An Elijah tale like Goldin's Just Enough Is Plenty , this version concerns a couple so poor they cannot buy food for a seder, though Hayim-Jonah believes God will provide and reminds his wife of the real reason for rejoicing (``We celebrate our...
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Barbara D. Godin, Author, Erika Weihs, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-86034-0
In the same format as Eric Kimmel's Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah: A Jewish Girl's Coming of Age by Barbara Diamond Goldin, illus. by Erika Weihs, provides far more than an explanation of a ceremony. About half the book is devoted to a thoughtful...
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Andrew Plewes, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-200684-6
In this Native American myth from the Pacific Northwest, a girl's abduction by bears teaches her and her people respect for animals. While picking berries, the chief's spoiled daughter complains bitterly of the bears who have trampled her woodland...
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Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $20 (96p) ISBN 978-0-15-200445-3
Goldin (The Girl Who Lived with Bears) combines Jewish folklore and world history in this fascinating look at the prophet Elijah. Tradition has it that Elijah can reappear on earth to anyone at anytime in any place as a symbol of peace and justice,...
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Jonathan London, Author, Barbara Diamond Goldin, Author, G. Brian Karas, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-84905-5
This ethereal bedtime book features a flock of children who float out of their bedroom windows and up into the night sky; a luscious, poetic text (``The day is a flower . . . there are petals of soft light in our hair''); and appropriately dreamy...
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