Because when you find a good series your child likes, you’re set for awhile (or at least a week). March 13. The chocolate pretzels and gummy bears were still piled up in boxes in the living room, surrounded by the remainders of mishloach manos ribbons and wrappings. It was erev Shabbos, and I had plenty…
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It’s Your Last Chance to Get That Cookbook You Want on Sale!
Artscroll’s cookbook sale ends on May 11th – and there’s never been a better time to start making all those recipes you’ve always wanted to try. If your home is like many of ours, dinner seems to be a bigger production nowadays. The family is finally sitting around the table together, we’re meal planning better…
13 Books and Series Your Child Will Enjoy
We can all use some good new books for our kids these days. Chavie Bruk shares some of her favorites with all of you!
Menucha Is Saving the Day for Parents – Here’s How (There’s Free Zoom Classes Too!)
First, they brought us the first-ever Jewish leveled readers. Then they gave grandparents an opportunity to excite and connect to their grandchildren via The Jewish Book Box. And, now, children can watch free Zoom classes! (Watch LIVE here). It’s education with entertainment at its best. Solution One: The Right Books! Enter BCP10 at checkout. When…
A Curated List of Wholesome Pre-1990 Secular Books
It’s hard to find kosher books among the secular books written today. But it wasn’t like that when we were kids. These are the books you might have read when you were young…and that your child might enjoy today. We’re usually very hesitant to share secular books on Between Carpools since everyone has different standards…
Jewish Book Box: What’s More Exciting Than a Box of New Books?
Imagine your child’s excitement when the Jewish Book Box arrives in the mail! We absolutely love this idea! Does your child love to read? Always looking for new, appropriate books? Get a Jewish Book Box. There’s no work to do. Simply the latest, appropriate books are delivered to your door each month. And it’s so…
Why It’s the Perfect Time for a Book Fair
Encourage your children or students to read this summer by letting him stock up on good books at a school book fair. Then, download this fun reading chart (below) and they’ll win prizes from Menucha Classrooms–just for reading! Are you part of a school administration? Active on the PTA in your child’s school? Want to…
12 Book Series for Your Elementary Age Child
Book series are great because they keep a child busy for a long, long time. We’ve made recommendations and provided the information on each series listed below on kosherbooks.org to let you, the parent, make the choice. When we first set out to give our kids pre-checked, appropriate reading material, we focused on the most…
Should You Censor Your Teen’s Book? (+ Book Recommendations)
As kids get older, it becomes harder to find them appropriate reading material. So what’s a mom of an avid reader to do? To edit or not to edit our children’s reading material. While in the secular world the “c” word is an anathema to many, we in the frum community are caught in a…
Is Laura Doyle’s Book Consistent with Jewish Values?
So many have improved their marriages by using the Laura Doyle techniques. But are these techniques in line with what the Torah would advise us? By a BCP Reader We recently received this letter from a BCP reader after we published the post Are You Married to a Figment of Your Imagination? by Laura Doyle…