Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library

I don’t feel the need to write a better summary of Jeremy’s Dreidel by Ellie Gellman than the official one-liner, so here it is: Jeremy signs up for a Hanukkah workshop to make unusual dreidels and creates a clay dreidel with braille dots for his dad, who is blind. This story is told on 23 pages of the 32 pages. What is missing from the above description is Jeremy’s hesitation, the class’ acceptance, the classmates’ projects, the beauty of Judith Friedman‘s illustration and the heartwarming feeling you get when you read the whole story with or to your 4-8 year old children. What’s even more fun is the instructions ate the back on how to make some untraditional dreidels creatively, The last pages of the book tell you how to play the game with them and even shows you the Braille letters for what goes no the dreidels: nun, gimal, hey, and shin