Challah for Shabbat Tonight

by Sara Holly Ackerman (Author) Alona Millgram (Illustrator)

Challah for Shabbat Tonight
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade

This sweet, rhyming, beautifully illustrated picture book celebrates Jewish joy and intergenerational love as it follows a girl and her grandmother preparing for Shabbat dinner by baking traditional challah from scratch.

A little girl and her grandmother spend Friday afternoon preparing for Shabbat by making challah. In hours full of laughter and love, they mix the ingredients, braid the dough, let it rise, and set the table, and finally, enjoy a scrumptious family dinner and the bread they made together.

Told through Sara Holly Ackerman's musical, rhyming verse and Alona Millgram's rich, whimsical art, Challah for Shabbat Tonight will warm readers' hearts and fill their bellies as they celebrate Jewish joy, familial love, and kitchen magic.

A challah recipe is included in the back for those who want to bake along.

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$18.99

Kirkus

Playful illustrations reflect the joy in both flurries of activity and periods of rest. The sweet, comforting rhyming couplets scan smoothly, making for a pleasant read-aloud... A quiet celebration of the cultural and family rituals that feed us, in all kinds of ways.

Publishers Weekly

Given a loving intergenerational connection, delicious homemade bread, and the joy of a traditional family gathering, it’s no wonder the child dreams "a galaxy of challah dreams." Characters are portrayed with various skin tones. Ages 4-8.

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Sara Holly Ackerman
Sara Holly Ackerman is a children's book author and school librarian in Brooklyn, NY. She loves the smell of homemade challah filling her apartment, but the challah from the neighborhood bakeries tastes every bit as good. She is the author of Not Just the Driver! and the co-author of The Gabi that Girma Wore. Find her online at sarahollyackerman.com and on Instagram @sarahollyackerman.

Alona Millgram is an illustrator, artist, and comics creator. Her work has been shortlisted twice for the AOI World Illustration Awards and she has won numerous other awards and international recognition. Alona currently lives in Berlin, Germany, with her husband and daughter, and challah always reminds her of home. Find her online at alonamillgram.com and on Instagram @alonamillgram.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781643753577
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Publication date
September 03, 2024
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV013030 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
JUV033020 - Juvenile Fiction | Religious | Jewish
JUV050000 - Juvenile Fiction | Cooking & Food
Library of Congress categories
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