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Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride by Deborah Bodin Cohen

k8brarian's review

5.0

This is an excellent little book that uses the "hook" of a child's interest in trains to teach them about Rosh Hashanah and the concept of teshuvah. My kids love trains, especially the old fashioned steam locomotives like the one Engineer Ari drives, and I like to buy them books that play on that interest. When I read the description of this book I was especially interested; we are not Jewish, but I want to expose my kids to the wide world and all its people and ideas. And the idea of repenting and making up for our mistakes is a universal lesson that everyone could benefit from! We enjoyed the illustrations, the details that taught little bits of Jewish tradition, and everything else about this book.