AppleTree HAPPY LITTLE BOOK from page 101 Its Sukkah Time! by Latifa Berry Kropf, with photographs by Tod Cohen. Copyright 2003, published by Kar-Ben, 1-800-4KARBEN. 24 pages. $10.95. Tiny children love to look at other tiny children, and here's a fun book that allows them to do just that. It's Sukkah Time! is a cute little book showing preschool children preparing for the holiday. They help pick apples and pumpkins and even build the sukkah. They lift the frame, connect the boards, and make decorations with beads. Once they've made a real sukkah, the children decide to create a tiny sukkah for their classroom, and then even smaller ones (from the plastic green containers that usimlly serve as a home to cherry tomatoes) for their toy people. Then they sing and dance in their real sukkah, have some snacks and shake the lulay. As the book ends, two little girls are standing under an umbrella: Sometimes it rains on Sukkot, but we don't mind. Rain means there will be a good harvest next year. The photos here are delightful (the best show the children laughing), and the text is simple and sweet. At the back, readers will find information on how to make their own small sukkah (the green-vegetable-basket variety) and the blessings to be said in the sukkah. Another nice touch: Its Sukkah Time actually mentions God, a feature sorely lacking in so many Jewish children's books today. Night Lights: A Sukkot Story by Barbara Diamond Goldin. Copyright 2002, Union of American Hebrew Congregations Press wwvv.uahcpress.com 32 pages. $12.95. The text of this book was first pub- lished in 1995; the latest version fea- tures new illustrations. It's unclear why this book needed to be reprinted already, since there's nothing extraordi- nary about it. Night Lights is the tale of a family building their sukkah: Dad is in his jeans and Mom wears Birkenstock-like sandals with socks, the kids are all sit- ting around making decorations, food will come from their garden. Interestingly, and much to the reader's confusion, this family apparently knows enough about Sukkot that they are committed to sleeping in it, but not a great deal about the rules for building a sukkah. ("When we're in the sukkah, we're supposed to see the sky through the roof," the father says. This is absolutely untrue.) The little boy, Daniel, is afraid to flit flt by: AtA L UM/SLR( ; R !kit:CAW' ti,;t1 1, 1 RGIB IA sleep in the sukkah because he fears bears and wolves, but he does, nonethe- less. His big sister, Naomi, makes fun of him — then she's afraid, too, so the two cuddle together under the sky (Where are the parents? you may be wondering. Inside in their beds, we can only guess) and think of their ancestors, falling asleep with the "night lights," the stars, that keep them feeling safe. The ending is nice enough, but not really worth the price of the book. Also new in print: Tasty Bible Storks: A Menu of Tales and Matching Recipes by Tami Lehman Wilzig, with illustrations by Katherine Janus Kahn. Copyright 2003, published by Kar Ben. 64 pages, $10.95. This is not specifically a Rosh Hashanah book, but its brand new and great for the holidays. What could be more fun than fami- lies cooking together, especially with a book that actually offers new food ideas and puts them in a Jewish context. Tasty Bible Stories is a collection of ancient Torah tales (Adam and Eve, Noah, Sarah, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Passover, the Exodus, Ruth, King David, among others) told in a very modern tone: God told Noah to leave the ark and to bring his family and all the animals with him so they could be fruitful and multiply. Excitedly, he cried out to his family, "Let's go!" Now able to farm again, Noah was interested in growing new fruits. "I have a grape idea!" he called out happily one day. "You mean GREAT idea," corrected Shem. "No I mean GRAPE," insisted Noah. ?in going to grow grapes!" With each retelling (all are short, about two pages), the reader also gets really cool recipes. With the Noah story, for example, you'll find a "grape" fruit salad and three bean olive salad; accom- panying the Adam and Eve tale are recipes for apple pie and fresh figs with sour cream; the recounting of Jacob and Esau has a yummy-looking recipe for spicy lentil dip. Rosh Hashanah is a time of newness. You can have fun and experience some- thing new (a recipe or a fun retelling of a familiar tale) with Tasty Bible Stories.0 P H S AL N Z P TYWR V Y N R O H C I L HS A T E A N O Z Are you good at word searches, mazes, secret codes? Then AppleTree's "Are You PiiMed?" is perfect for you! 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