Poetry Friday: Goodnight Bubbala

Enjoy this parody of Goodnight Moon with your happy mishpacha and welcome Hanukkah. With text by Sheryl Haft and illustration by Jill Weber, your first reader will be ready to help you make latkes before you to read Goodnight Bubbala again! A Yiddish glossary may inform and expand vocabularies.

"Goodnight room
Goodnight schmatta
Goodnight mishpacha noshing on latkes"

Happy Hanukkah and Poetry Friday!

Goodnight Bubbala, a Joyful Parody
by Sheryl Haft
illustrated by Jill Weber
Dial Books for Young Readers, 2019

Meet the Latkes: Alan Silberberg

Happy Hanukkah! You might celebrate the holiday with this humorous picture book from Alan Silberberg, Meet the Latkes. A family of potato pancakes listens to Grandpa Latke's story, which does include Mega-Bees and alien potatoes. Applesauce, the dog, will set the telling straight for your readertotz.

Humor for your holiday, as the menorah is lit and dreidels are spun.

Meet the Latkes
by Alan Silberberg
Viking, 2018

Poetry Friday: Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel

 

Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel

I have a little dreidel

I made it out of clay

And when it's dry and ready

Then dreidel I shall play! 

Oh - dreidel, dreidel, dreidel
I made it out of clay
And when it's dry and ready
Then dreidel I shall play! 

It has a lovely body
With legs so short and thin
And when my dreidel's tired
It drops and then I win! 

Oh - dreidel, dreidel, dreidel
I made it out of clay
And when it's dry and ready
Then dreidel I shall play! 

My dreidel's always playful
It loves to dance and spin
A happy game of dreidel
Come play now, let's begin!

Oh - dreidel, dreidel, dreidel
I made it out of clay
And when it's dry and ready
Then dreidel I shall play!

Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Hanukkah, totz! 

David Martin and Melissa Sweet: Hanukkah Lights

This sturdy board book mentions many of the components of Hanukkah and serves as a good intro to the holiday for totz. It's 5.25 x 5.25 inches square, 26 pages, self-cover--just the right size for small hands to join in the celebration or learn about a new holiday!

Hanukkah candles,
shinging bright.
One more candle
every night.

As I mentioned last month, I'm a huge fan of Melissa Sweet's work!

Hanukkah Lights
David Martin, author
Melissa Sweet, illustrator
Candlewick Press, 2009