It's Sukkah Time!

by Latifa Berry Kropf, Tod Cohen (Photographer)

Overview

A preschool class demonstrates the steps of sukkah-building to celebrate the fall harvest festival of Sukkot. Blessings in Hebrew and English are included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512490053
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/2004
Series:	Sukkot & Simchat Torah
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	6 - 7 Years

About the Author

Latifa Berry Kropf teaches preschool, remedial reading, and Israeli dancing. She is the author of It’s Challah Time!, It’s Sukkah Time!, It’s Seder Time!, and It’s Hanukkah Time! She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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It's Sukkah Time!

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By Latifa Berry Kropf, Tod Cohen

Kar-Ben Publishing

Copyright © 2004 Latifa Berry Kropf
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-58013-084-4

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CHAPTER 1

Sukkot celebrates the harvest. It comes in autumn when the leaves fall ...

and apples and pumpkins ...

are ripe and ready to pick.

It's time to build our sukkah. We connect the boards, tighten the screws ...

and lift the frame up high.

Michael and Tali are stringing colored beads and pasta to decorate our sukkah.

Look at Ruby's silly fingers!

Let's make a sukkah for our classroom, too.

How many of us can fit inside?

(Continues...)

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Editorial Reviews

A preschool class prepares for the festival of Sukkot (which this year begins on October 10) in It's Sukkah Time! by Latifa Berry Kropf, photos by Tod Cohen. Aided by their teacher, the children build and decorate a sukkah, then feast within. Included are blessings as well as directions for making a toy-size sukkah from supermarket containers. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

PreS-Gr 1-As the information given is minimal, this book works best for those already familiar with the Jewish holiday. With simple text and crisp, color photographs, Kropf explains that Sukkot is a harvest festival. Children are shown helping to build a sukkah, to decorate it, and to eat inside it. They also make one for their classroom and one for their toys. Directions for the mini sukkah and the holiday blessings are appended. There is no explanation of why one builds a sukkah, or how the holiday itself is observed, except in a note on the verso of the title page that can be easily overlooked. However, as there are few books on Sukkot, religious schools and libraries serving large Jewish populations may want to consider adding this title.-Amy Lilien-Harper, The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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