Blessed Are You: Traditional Everyday Hebrew Prayers
Brief traditional Hebrew prayers suggest opportunities for opening and closing the day, asking for comfort and offering expressions of thanksgiving and wonder. Thirteen texts are decorated with small paintings and borders and printed in Hebrew and English with transliterations of the Hebrew on the left side of each double page spread. Each full-page picture on the right side suggest a contemporary family - most often a brother and sister with their baby brother - engaged in ordinary activities: camping in the backyard, baking bread, watching a thunderstorm, playing on an ocean beach, burying a tiny dead pet in the woods, enjoying a book together on the sofa. The children are not pictured praying "because remembering God is part of their everyday lives." The distinctive full-color paintings and decorations were created in watercolor, gouache and colored pencil. ©1993 Cooperative Children's Book Center
Illustrated by
Michelle Edwards
Translated by
Michelle Edwards.
Translated from the Hebrew
CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 3-6
Age Range:
Babies/Toddlers (birth – 3)
PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7)
Format:
Picture book
Subjects:
Bilingual Books
Faith, Spirituality and Religion
Families
Hebrew Language
Jewish People
Times of Day
Traditions
Diversity subject:
Jewish
Publisher:
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Publish Year: 1993
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0688107605
CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 296 Edwards