Titles that we recommend are featured below. The ones with reviews are noted with an asterisk (*). Some titles are recommended with a caveat.
Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin
By Tracy Newman and Abigail Halpin (Illustrator)
Mentioned here: Erasure of Palestinians in English-Language Children's Books
Measuring a Year: A Rosh Hashanah Story
By Linda Elovitz Marshall and Zara González Hoang (Illustrator)
Miep and the Most Famous Diary: The Woman Who Rescued Anne Frank's Diary
By Meeg Pincus and Jordi Solano (Illustrator)
Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi
By Sigal Samuel and Vali Mintzi (Illustrator)
The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs *
By Chana Stiefel and Susan Gal (Illustrator)
Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage (Young Readers Edition)
By Tilar J. Mazzeo and adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell
Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education
By Norman H. Finkelstein
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
By Anne Frank, Ari Folman (Adapted by) and David Polonsky (Illustrator)
The Bund: A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance
By Sharon Rudahl and Michael Kluckner (Artist)
Learn More
- For a list of recommended books for children on the Holocaust during WWII, visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- For teaching about antisemitism, see Curriculum on Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation