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RELIGION

Michelson, Richard

A Is for Abraham: A Jewish Family Alphabet

40 pp. | Sleeping Bear | September, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-58536-322-3 $17.95

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Ron Mazellan. Informative but dense sidebars and singsongy poems with questionable rhymes (e.g., blessed her with ancestor, braided with made it) make up the text of this alphabet book about Judaism that touches on history, observances, and important figures. Realistic illustrations, many dark and somber, effectively display moments of familial warmth as well as symbolic places and figures important to Judaism.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz