Hanukkah, Here I Come!

by D. J. Steinberg, Sara Palacios (Illustrator)

Overview

Celebrate Hanukkah with a collection of funny and festive poems from the author of the hugely popular Kindergarten, Here I Come!

"A warm and welcoming Hanukkah story."–Kirkus Reviews

The candles are lit and the latkes are frying – Hanukkah is here! Welcome in the holiday with poems – and a sheet of stickers! – from author D. J. Steinberg that highlight the family fun, dizzying dreidels, and mighty Maccabee stories that Hanukkah is sure to bring.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593094266
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	10/11/2022
Series:	Here I Come! Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.14(d)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

D. J. Steinberg is the best-selling author of the popular Here I Come! series, with over 20 books for young readers published to date. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and can be found at djsteinberg.com.

Sara Palacios is the recipient of the 2012 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Award. A native of Mexico, Sara graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City and went on to earn BFA and MFA degrees in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

2022-08-17
Come celebrate the joys and traditions of Hanukkah in this poetry collection.

The cover of this exuberant book hints at the fun within as a group of diverse children play a game of dreidel with a menorah shining behind them indicating that it’s the first night of Hanukkah. Steinberg’s poems guide young readers through various aspects of the holiday, explaining its origins in biblical days with the Maccabees fighting to recapture the temple and the miracle of the small amount of oil burning for eight days and nights. Steinberg then focuses on a modern family’s celebration, including the lighting of the candles with the shammes, the presents stacked and ready to open, the rules of the dreidel game, the food, and the wonderful, noisy, loving togetherness that pervades it all. Attempts to take family selfies by the menorah are a hilarious failure. Then there’s the endless debate over the right condiment to accompany the latkes, with family members declaring themselves Team Applesauce or Team Sour Cream. The poems, generally in simple abcb rhymes, capture the family’s love and pride in their religious traditions. Palacios’ cartoonish art depicts characters with a wide variety of skin tones and hair colors and who vary in age, complementing and enhancing the text. Stickers with illustrations from the book are appended. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

A warm and welcoming Hanukkah story. (Picture-book poetry. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews