Stunning photographs and simple text describe faith in its many expressions: praying, singing, learning, helping, caring, and more. Faith highlights the common threads that bring people together in reverence and joy.

"This impeccably designed introduction to spiritual practices around the world provides a superb way to show children that there are many means of expressing religious faith." --Kirkus Reviews

Now in paperback!

Sara finds her family's Chanukah celebrations boring until Tante Miriam arrives at the holiday party. She gives Sara a Golden Dreydl that is really an enchanted princess who guides Sara on a journey into a magical world. Imaginative drawings depict a universe where Jewish history collides with fantasy.

"The chatty storytelling is fast, furious, and sometimes funny, especially the riddles of the vicious king. . . Kids will enjoy the fantasy adventure, as well as the contemporary family standoffs; they'll also be interested in Tante Miriam's explanation of the dreydl's symbols. This will be fun for reading aloud."
--Booklist

"The concept is winning.... The illustrations are beautiful...--richly detailed, cheeky charming..."
--Kirkus Reviews

Read a chapter from The Golden Dreydl.

When a family is torn apart by the brutal Nazi regime, a father's gift of a simple harmonica brings his son comfort-and ensures his survival. Based on the life of a Holocaust survivor.

". . . unforgettable . . ."
— Booklist

". . . poignant and powerful."
— School Library Journal

"Visually effective . . ."
— Kirkus Reviews

Roxanne just wants to be a normal American girl with a normal American family. But with her mother back in Israel and her father working long hours as a cab driver in Manhattan, Roxanne and her sister, Gayle, have to fend for themselves. Things change, though, when Liat moves into town. Liat challenges Roxanne's assumptions about what it means to be cool, and what it means to be American.

"[E]xquisite . . ."
--Booklist

"Told in a first-person voice that is both sardonic and sincere, Friedman's novel succeeds in bringing forth some common issues that challenge any immigrant American child who must straddle separate ways of life while striving for that true-blue American image."
--Kirkus Reviews

"[T]his is a readable coming-of-age story that captures many universal aspects of the contemporary immigrant experience coupled with middle school angst, first crushes, and the importance of finding one’s own wings."
--School Library Journal

Follow the adventures and misadventures of Hoshmakaka the camel as he reluctantly journeys to Bethlehem to deliver gifts to the new baby king.

Russell Martin, author of Beethoven's Hair, and his wife, Lydia Nibley, tell the story of how a lock of Ludwig van Beethoven's hair, clipped from the composer's head on his deathbed in Germany in 1827, ended up in Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1943 and was later sold at auction in London in 1994. Learn about this incredible journey through history and the mysteries revealed about Beethoven's deafness and death.

Photographs, correspondence, reserach, and forensics further inform this fascinating story.

A poignant intergenerational tale about preserving a dying language and the memories of the people who spoke it.

"A wonderful story that deeply touched my own Yiddish heart. The pictures are extraordinary—heartbreaking and powerful—as powerful as the need to resurrect the Yiddish language and hold fast to the past.”
— Maurice Sendak

"I wept, I smiled, I wished my own parents had thought enough of their own Yiddish to have taught me some. The text in this book is lyrical and funny, and the pictures are extraordinary. Mazel tov, Michelson and Waldman!"
— Jane Yolen

“... [A] warm, thoughtful, beautifully written story where the love of books is matched only by the love of people. I can’t wait to share it with my children.”
— Aaron Lansky, Founder of the National Yiddish Book Center

"One of the best Jewish children's books published in recent memory, and one of the top 25 ever published."
— Detroit Jewish News