Parsha books for kids

Gold Member Joined: Mar 23 2005 Posts: 1746

My kids love parsha and I'm looking for something new. What is out there that is good? I'm looking for something other than Little Midrash says.

Gold Member Joined: Mar 23 2005 Posts: 1746

Well, I see this wasn't the most popular topic of the day. Anyone? I'm sure people get their kids parsha books around here.

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Posted: Tue, Jan 26 2010, 11:49 pm Post subject: re: parsha books for kids

B'h
My issues with a lot of these Parsha books (call me shallow for this )are their illustrations. Looking at some of them, if I were a kid would be positivley frightened and is not at all inspiring.
So now for my class I have resorted to creating my own Confused

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I LOVE the big laminated "the parsha tells me." I have it is yiddish, its called, di parsha ertzeilt mir" and I know they have it in English, Hebrew and yiddish. the pictures are gorgeous.

Posted: Wed, Jan 27 2010, 7:44 pm Post subject:

we have it in hebrew 'haparsha mesparet li' an my son (4) adores it altho I think its aimed at slightly older kids, prob up to age 9. the illustrations are brght n cheerful n the pages r laminated. we r slowly collecitng the whole set, we just need devarim now!

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Posted: Thu, Jan 28 2010, 4:28 am Post subject:

We have "parshat hashavua leyaldei Yisrael" which is by the same author, but aimed at slightly older children. My kids love it - I think it is translated into English too.

Also the Feldheim series plus tapes is really great, though they seem to be taking forever to bring out the whole series. Looks like only our grandchildren iyH will have the whole series. I only have the Hebrew, so I haven't seen whether the English translation is good.
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My sons enjoy the Parsha Reader (is that what it's called?)
Basic summary of the parsha with pictures and a few questions at the end.
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Posted: Thu, Jan 28 2010, 10:26 am Post subject:

We have my first parsha reader. I has a few pages on each parsha, then a few questions for your child to answer. Really good.
http://www.nehora.com/index.cfm/category/69/my-first-parsha-reader-ages-3-8.cfm

(I know nothing abt the web site or the company. Its just the first one that came up when I goggled the books)
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(Yeah, that's the set we have. My kids enjoy looking at it themselves as well and talking about parshiyos they remember...)

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Posted: Thu, Jan 28 2010, 11:17 am Post subject:

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It sounds like what we have. My kids love, love, love these! I can't say that enough. We have the Bereishis 1 and 2, but when I went to replace our tape 2 (for the 2nd time!) they were not available at Feldheim anymore. They never came out with anymore in English. I wonder if I should get them the Hebrew ones, it might help with their language skills.

Could you tell me where to buy them in Israel? My father is in Yerushalayim for the week, and I would ask him to get them for my kids.

Thanks!

Posted: Thu, Jan 28 2010, 3:06 pm Post subject: re: parsha books for kids

echinuch has some beautiful parsha pictures by david sokoloff.

Active Poster Joined: Dec 28 2009 Posts: 37

Has anyone seen these?
http://torat-imecha.com/

Just came across it today. The samples are cute; I thought they might be appropriate both for my 2 and 4-year-old, and also for the Shabbos circle time I lead.

I have been using My First Parsha Reader for about 12 years, but don't love it. The text needs a lot of "reworking" to make it useable, important narratives are missing (I forget which now, but during Bereishis, I always had to add a lot) and I agree that some of the illustrations are inappropriate or scary.

The next ones in that series, The Little Midrash Says, is a bit better, but it's not pshat-based and doesn't differentiate between sources.

Interesting thread... I'll be following it, thanks!