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Jewish Folktales Children's A Sack Full of Feathers Debby Waldman; Cindy Revell, illus. Children's Before You Were Born Howard Schwartz; Kristina Swarner, illus. Children's Can Hens Give Milk? Joan Betty Stuchner; Joe Weissman, illus. Children's Capturing the Moon: Classic and Modern Jewish Tales Rabbi Edward M. Feinstein Children's Clay Man: The Golem of Prague Irene N. Watts, reteller; Kathryn E. Shoemaker, illus Children's Clever Rachel Debby Waldman; Cindy Revell, illus. Nonfiction Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions Raphael Patai, founding ed.; Haya Bar-Itzak, ed. Children's Even Higher Richard Ungar Children's Feathers: A Jewish Tale from Eastern Europe Heather Forest; Marcia Cutchin, illus. Fiction Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe Dan Ben-Amos, ed.; Dov Noy, consulting ed.; Ellen Frankel, series ed. Fiction Folktales of the Jews, Volume 3: Tales from Arab Lands Dan Ben-Amos, ed and commentator Fiction Folktales of the Jews, Volume I: Tales From the Sephardic Dispersion Dan Ben-Amos, ed. Children's Gathering Sparks Howard Schwartz; Kristina Swarner, illus. Children's In God's Hands Lawrence Kushner; Gary Schmidt; Matthew J. Baek, illus. Nonfiction Israeli Folk Narratives: Settlement, Immigration, Ethnicity Haya Bar-Itzhak Children's It's Too Crowded in Here! And Other Jewish Folktales Retold by Vicki L. Weber; Hector Borlasca, illus. , 2010. 64 pp. $7.95 ISBN: Cookbook Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook Retold by Jane Yolen; Heidi E.Y. Stemple, recipes; Sima Elizabeth Shefrin, illus. Children's Joha Makes a Wish: A Middle Eastern Tale Eric A. Kimmel; Omar Rayyan, illus. Children's Joseph and the Sabbath Fish Eric A. Kimmel; Martina Peluso, illus. Children's Kishka for Koppel Aubrey Davis; Sheldon Cohen, illus. Fiction Leaves From the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales Howard Schwartz; Kristina Swarner, illus. Nonfiction Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning Goldie Milgram and Ellen Frankel, eds. Children's One City, Two Brothers Chris Smith; Aurélia Fronty, illus. Fiction Pomegranate Seeds: Latin American Jewish Tales Nadia Grosser Nagarajan Children's Rabbi Harvey Rides Again Steve Sheinkin Fiction Radiant Days, Haunted Nights: Great Tales From the Treasury of Yiddish Folk Literature Joachim Neugroschel, ed. and trans. Children's Shlemazel and the Remarkable Spoon of Pohost Ann Redisch Stampler; Jacqueline M. Cohen, Illustrator Children's Solomon and the Ant: And Other Jewish Folktales Retold by Sheldon Oberman; Peninnah Schram, intro. and commentary Children's The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West Steve Sheinkin Children's The Apple Tree’s Discovery Peninnah Schram and Rachayl Eckstein Davis Children's The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales From Around the World Howard Schwartz and Barbara Rush; Uri Shulevitz, illus. Fiction The Essential Jewish Stories Seymour Rossel Children's The Family Book of Midrash: Fifty-Two Jewish Stories From the Sages Barbara Diamond Goldin Children's The Golem’s Latkes Eric A. Kimmel; Aaron Jasinski, illus. Nonfiction The Heart Is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale Tamar Alexander-Frizer; Jacqueline S. Teitelbaum, trans. Children's The Hungry Clothes and Other Jewish Folktales Retold by Peninnah Schram; Gianni DeConno, illus. Nonfiction The Jewish Story Finder: A Guide To 363 Tales Listing Subjects and Sources Sharon Barcan Elswit Nonfiction The Jewish Story Finder: A Guide to 668 Tales Listing Subjects and Sources Sharon Barcan Elswit; Peninnah Schram, fwd. Children's The Magic Pomegranate: A Jewish Folktale Peninnah Schram; Melanie Hall, illus. Children's The Mysterious Guests. A Sukkot Story Eric A. Kimmel; Katya Krenina, illus Children's The Rooster Prince of Breslov Ann Redisch Stampler; Eugene Yelchin, illus. Children's The Story Tree: Tales to Read Aloud Retold by Hugh Lupton; Sophie Fatus, illus. Children's The Wind That Wanted to Rest Sheldon Oberman; Neil Waldman, illus. Children's The Wooden Sword: A Jewish Folktale from Afghanistan Ann Redisch Stampler; Carol Liddiment, illus. Children's Three Times Chai: 54 Rabbis Tell Their Favorite Stories Laney Katz Becker Nonfiction Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism Howard Schwartz; Caren Lobbel-Fried, illus. Children's Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer; Maurice Sendak, illus.
Nonfiction Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions Raphael Patai, founding ed.; Haya Bar-Itzak, ed.
Fiction Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe Dan Ben-Amos, ed.; Dov Noy, consulting ed.; Ellen Frankel, series ed.
Children's It's Too Crowded in Here! And Other Jewish Folktales Retold by Vicki L. Weber; Hector Borlasca, illus. , 2010. 64 pp. $7.95 ISBN:
Cookbook Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook Retold by Jane Yolen; Heidi E.Y. Stemple, recipes; Sima Elizabeth Shefrin, illus.
Fiction Leaves From the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales Howard Schwartz; Kristina Swarner, illus.
Nonfiction Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning Goldie Milgram and Ellen Frankel, eds.
Fiction Radiant Days, Haunted Nights: Great Tales From the Treasury of Yiddish Folk Literature Joachim Neugroschel, ed. and trans.
Children's Shlemazel and the Remarkable Spoon of Pohost Ann Redisch Stampler; Jacqueline M. Cohen, Illustrator
Children's Solomon and the Ant: And Other Jewish Folktales Retold by Sheldon Oberman; Peninnah Schram, intro. and commentary
Children's The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West Steve Sheinkin
Children's The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales From Around the World Howard Schwartz and Barbara Rush; Uri Shulevitz, illus.
Children's The Family Book of Midrash: Fifty-Two Jewish Stories From the Sages Barbara Diamond Goldin
Nonfiction The Heart Is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale Tamar Alexander-Frizer; Jacqueline S. Teitelbaum, trans.
Children's The Hungry Clothes and Other Jewish Folktales Retold by Peninnah Schram; Gianni DeConno, illus.
Nonfiction The Jewish Story Finder: A Guide To 363 Tales Listing Subjects and Sources Sharon Barcan Elswit
Nonfiction The Jewish Story Finder: A Guide to 668 Tales Listing Subjects and Sources Sharon Barcan Elswit; Peninnah Schram, fwd.
Children's The Wooden Sword: A Jewish Folktale from Afghanistan Ann Redisch Stampler; Carol Liddiment, illus.
