2020 Best Kids Books For Littles

The Book of Secrets

This surreal romp confused the heck out of Q, HOWEVER, I think he’ll love it once he gets older and learns to read and ponder.

(His new thing is blasting through books like he’s got somewhere else to be. He has nowhere else to be, he’s just gonna read another book!)

While on the surface, the book has ‘slapped-together handmade high-school zine‘ vibes, there are so many lovely layers to this recollection of traditional Jewish stories.

First – for gentiles: Judaism is not just a culture and a faith, but also a practice of education, reflection, and study. Torah study is all about reading, reflecting, and questioning traditional teachings. Jewish history is also about survival through targeting and oppression – maintaining a mental toolbox for resistance and passing these teachings down through narrative stories.

So that’s just a couple levels right there, and we didn’t even get into the plot of the a book called ‘The Book of Secrets.’ Cool, right?

Anyhoo – it’s deceptively complex, and also lovely. Spend some time with it.

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