Best jewish holiday books for children according to redditors
We found 4 Reddit comments discussing the best jewish holiday books for children. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 4 Reddit comments discussing the best jewish holiday books for children. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Firstly, I second LazerA's comment. I can't personally speak for the classic commentaries he mentions, but if they're classics, you can't really go wrong. Everything else he says is spot on (I would just add/clarify, re: going quickly: the important thing is to keep people engaged, interested, and involved. But if you can elaborate without losing people, that's excellent. Also, faffing is the real killer. Eg when no one can decide what wine to try next and the pouring becomes an event in itself).
Personally, I prefer the standard Artscroll as others have said. Not despite, but because it is just the basics, with a basic translation. I find there's more than enough to discuss just in the pshat and the midrashim mentioned in the Haggadah itself. (And this is enhanced greatly, as others have said, by going through something (or a selection of things) more in depth.
And you can't go too far wrong with Artscroll products, as a general rule. They sell a bunch of different Haggadahs, it seems.
Other than that, we generally have a large selection lying around. The family standards are the Becker (especially for the halachic element. What to do when), the Maharal Haggadah, of course, is a compilation of the Maharal's very deep explanations of the themes in the Haggadah. I've heard that Rabbi Berel Wein's Haggadah is very good. As kids we enjoyed this. And others I can't remember off-hand.
Per this comment (about feminist values etc), there's A Different Night, which I don't personally agree with, but some people I know enjoy. It includes commentaries and thought from a broad spectrum of Jewish thought, and lots of interesting customs and ways to keep various people engaged.
An Amazon search for Haggadah give thousands of results, some look extremely interesting. I can't recommend the ones I haven't seen, but it might be worth taking a look, you might find exactly the thing you're looking for :)
Latkes and Applesauce anyone?
http://www.amazon.com/Latkes-Applesauce-Hanukkah-Fran-Manushkin/dp/0590422650
Read this book every Hanukkah as a kid. This reminded me of it.
The Spotted Pony and (Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
Get her a Hanukah tree instead, it's a new tradition, all the rage in America
https://www.amazon.com/Chanukkah-Tree-Eric-Kimmel/dp/0823407055