Rachel Kamin wrote:
...suggestions of good read-alouds (picture books or stories) for 2^nd
-6^th graders that correspond/relate to the months of Heshvan-Iyar but
are not holiday related.
I have a few children's books that I use as much with kiddos as with
adults as an introduction to an introduction to Talmud. I hope
some/any/one of them might be of use:
* Kevin Henkes. Kitten's first full moon. I usually read this with the
Hagar story. Sometimes what you are looking for is right in front of
you if you just open your eyes.
* Arnold Lobel. Frog and Toad all year. /The Surprise/ is the 4th
story. It's about true friendship and what friends do for each other
without wanting, asking for, or expecting anything in return.
* Shel Silverstein. The Giving Tree. The unconditional love of the
parent for the child. The unconditional love of God for all
creatures and each of us individually no matter who we are or what
we have done with this unconditional love. Unconditional love of
community for its members. Unconditional love of patriot for place.
This is good for the Jonah Story. It is similiar to the Two Brothers
story (they reap each others's wheat without telling or letting the
other find out).
* EBWhite. Charlotte's Web. The movie does not cut it. It has to be
the book with the original Garth Williams pictures. I have read this
book every year of my life (practically) and I have cried my eyes
out every single time. This is a book to be read throughout the
month in installments on Rosh haShaná, Yom Kipur, Sucot in class. Or
it can be read by the parents to the children especially during
Sucot. I have read this book to little groups of 6-year olds and
they have been spell-bound.
* Sam McBratney. Guess how much I love you? A single parent and
his/her infant. The illustrations by Anita Jeram slay me. I read
this book out loud to my kitties. How big is big? What are the
limits to love?
* Jonathan Emmett. The best gift of all. I use this book as an
introduction to Bikat Holim: Visiting the ill in hospital. A series
of woodland animals (that follow no scientifically known form of
animal behaviour, but so what, it's a cute fluffy story) are
concerned about a friend they have not seen in a while and decide to
visit (a bit of a road trip) only to find that the poor critter is
abed with a horrid cold. They go out of their way to make the friend
comfortable and give him/her a positive push towards recovery
* Jack Kent. There's no such thing as a dragon. This one can be
interpreted in a manner of ways. Everybody refuses to acknowledge
the existence of the dragon until it grows so fast and so large that
its tail is out the back door and its head out the front. This could
be akin to when we refuse to acknowledge a tiff between ourselves
and our friends that grows totally out of proportion. Or, this could
be an untapped talent of a member of a group that no one has taken
the time develop, recognize or tap into leaving the member very very
frustrated. Or, maybe someone feels left out and just wants a little
attention. A rather open-ended story. The dragon is Cute and the
interpretation Full of Possibilities.
* Michelle Knudsen. Library Lion. TBSanhedrin78. When a life is in
danger, all bets are off. Everyone here loves this story to death! A
lion comes to a library out of the blue one fine day for story time.
The head librarian permits the lion to stay but only if it makes
itself useful and obeys the rules. One day the librarian falls and
breaks her arm. The lion breaks all the rules, i.e., runs, roars,
etc., then leaves mortified for having broken all the rules. Things
happen. The lion comes back. Happy ending.
We have all of these books in Spanish translation from the original
English. We also have the Hebrew version of these books. I would have to
say that for adults as well as children the infant/young reader section
of the La Javurá library is the most perused and checked out section.
The adults love these children's books and are willing to plow through
the hebrew/spanish dictionary to look up the words to connect with the
Hebrew.
Now for something an eensty-weensty different (but not really, because I
do the beg-a-thon on AJL every year....)
Calendars 5776:
I know that they are getting scarcer and scarcer and harder and harder
to find in these economically trying times BUT if anyone happens to run
into any free-bee calendars, please think of me kindly. I have split the
ones I've received so far into 3 groups of 10 and have sent packets to
the teeny synagogues in Sevilla and Oviedo. As recompense to all who
send, I am calling this year 5776: *The Year of the Scarf*. Send
calendar(s) and get a handmade scarf by moi, you choose the colour.
Hugz and besos de Valencia
Alba
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