Measuring a Year

By Linda Elovitz Marshall, Zara Gonzalez Hoang (illustrator),

Book cover of Measuring a Year: A Rosh Hashanah Story

Book description

From award-winning author Linda Elovitz Marshall and illustrator Zara Gonzalez Hoang comes this engaging picture book about celebrating Rosh HashanahRosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur mark the beginning of the Jewish New Year. They offer a chance to think about the present and the past, to "measure" a year and ourselves.…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Measuring a Year as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The fall is overwhelmed by Jewish holidays. Rosh Hashanah (and Yom Kippur) initiate this holiday season.

The so-called High Holidays provide the opportunity to look backwards and forward. Since time is a difficult concept for kids—especially its measurement of it—helpful books like this one are particularly welcome.

I like Measuring a Year, because it provides the reader with guidance as to how to actually look backwards, acknowledge the good times and the things that the child might regret—and plan for the year ahead. 

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