{"id":1796,"date":"2011-12-15T18:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T23:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2011-12-15T18:01:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T23:01:23","slug":"best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html","title":{"rendered":"Best Jewish children’s books of 2011, if I do say so myself."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So, I’ve been working on a post of recommended books to buy for Hanukkah gifts. Procrastination rarely pays off, but in this case Marjorie Ingall posted the same column on Tablet<\/a>. She recommended many of the same books I was planning to suggest – a few that I already wrote about earlier this year, including The Book of Esther<\/a><\/em> by Eric Kimmel, When Life Gives you OJ<\/a><\/em> by Erica Perl, and Nosh, Shelp and Shluff<\/a><\/em> by Laurel Snyder, plus a few I spotted at book fairs but didn’t receive the requested review copies because I’m not, say, Marjorie Ingall. (And one I didn’t write about because I’m mad at the publisher…) I consider myself officially off the hook for posting my own version of this column.<\/p>\n

Best of all, she included one book I would never have mentioned….my very own picture book, The Shabbat Princess<\/a><\/em>. I’ve had positive reviews in the past, but I don’t think there’s anyone out there writing about Jewish books whose values and aesthetics I hold in as high esteem as Marjorie Ingall’s. (We even like the same reality shows.) And no, we’re not friends. (Well, we are on facebook, but we’ve never met.) So, I’m delighted to send you over to Tablet<\/a> to read the whole post and do lots of Hanukkah shopping.<\/p>\n

Any you think she missed?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve been working on a post of recommended books to buy for Hanukkah gifts. Procrastination rarely pays off, but in this case Marjorie Ingall posted the same column on Tablet. She recommended many of the same books I was planning to suggest – a few that I already wrote about earlier this year, including…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewish","category-judaism","category-parenting","tag-childrens-books"],"yoast_head":"\nBest Jewish children's books of 2011, if I do say so myself. - Homeshuling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best Jewish children's books of 2011, if I do say so myself. - Homeshuling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So, I’ve been working on a post of recommended books to buy for Hanukkah gifts. Procrastination rarely pays off, but in this case Marjorie Ingall posted the same column on Tablet. She recommended many of the same books I was planning to suggest – a few that I already wrote about earlier this year, including…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Homeshuling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-12-15T23:01:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/files\/2011\/12\/marcel.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Homeshuling\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Best Jewish children's books of 2011, if I do say so myself. - Homeshuling","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Best Jewish children's books of 2011, if I do say so myself. - Homeshuling","og_description":"So, I’ve been working on a post of recommended books to buy for Hanukkah gifts. Procrastination rarely pays off, but in this case Marjorie Ingall posted the same column on Tablet. She recommended many of the same books I was planning to suggest – a few that I already wrote about earlier this year, including…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html","og_site_name":"Homeshuling","article_published_time":"2011-12-15T23:01:23+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/files\/2011\/12\/marcel.jpg"}],"author":"Homeshuling","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html","name":"Best Jewish children's books of 2011, if I do say so myself. - Homeshuling","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/files\/2011\/12\/marcel.jpg","datePublished":"2011-12-15T23:01:23+00:00","dateModified":"2011-12-15T23:01:23+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/#\/schema\/person\/1b9b2e04ce88132a2716a44851035cfb"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/files\/2011\/12\/marcel.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/files\/2011\/12\/marcel.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/12\/best-jewish-childrens-books-of-2011-if-i-do-say-so-myself.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Best Jewish children’s books of 2011, if I do say so myself."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/","name":"Homeshuling","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Amy Meltzer","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/#\/schema\/person\/1b9b2e04ce88132a2716a44851035cfb","name":"Homeshuling","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/b43\/b432c2f0ab4d98954004bd3ab69e377ex96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/b43\/b432c2f0ab4d98954004bd3ab69e377ex96.jpg","caption":"Homeshuling"},"description":"I'm a mother of two girls, raised in suburban Baltimore, and transplanted to a small New England town. I teach, write, and try to create a vibrant Jewish home for my family while spending very little time in synagogue. I guess you could say we're home-shuling.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/author\/ameltzer"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}