Colors of Israel

By Laurie Grossman

Book Overview

Explores the different colors found in Israel's history, culture, and landscape. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575053829
• ISBN13: 9781575053820
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grade 3

Customer Reviews

lovely and real

I loved this book and keep it available to share with young friends. Grossman masterfully achieves directness and realism without heavy-handedness, with the juxtaposition of yellow bomb equipment and sunny summer drinks, Jewish Israel's blue and Arab Israel's green. The author's reflection of Israel's reality resonated very much with my own experience there. A helpful introduction to a diverse culture whose usual media image is only blood and fear.

Positive & clear-eyed

This book uses a simple but effective framework of colors to introduce elements of life in Israel. The writer acknowledges the role that Israel plays in other religions, but her approach is firmly rooted in a Jewish milieu. Colors of Israel is a good addition to any child's library, and is particularly suitable for Jewish children.

The Colors of Israel is a Beautiful Tapestry

The Colors of Israel is the first book in the Colors of the World series I have read and as a teacher, I am now ready to recommend this book and the series to my students.Although I am quite knowledgable about Israel(I lived there for 12 years),I was quite pleasantly surprised by the type of information Ms.Grossman chose to include. This is not your usual superficial blue and white,Hava Nagilah description of life in Israel. Rather,Ms Grossman offers a realistic tapestry,accessible to children,of everyday life in the always colorful,yet incredibly complex,Holy Land. I was struck by the creativity of the choices of where each color can be found,from the pink of the raspberry drink to the black of the Dead Sea mud to the green of a door leading to an Arab home. A child reading this book surely will understand the uniqueness of Israel and hopefully will be curious enough to want to learn even more. This book gives me hope-it presents Israel as a vibrant,interesting,fun country with a diverse population. Yes, a child reading this learns about the reality(yellow is for the robot that blows up suspicious objects)but the reality also includes the other colors of everyday life and yes, that everyday life includes different types of Jews,Arabs, and Christians.I recommend this book to anyone who wants a child to learn about the wonder of the most special place in the world,Israel.

Good intro/ recommended

I must have read a different book than the previous reviewer, who seems to find something anti-Israel under every rock. As one who visits friends and family in Israel each year and closely follows the news, I found this book to be quite good. Further, my kids, who speak Hebrew, like it and it's helped prepare them for an upcoming family visit to Israel. Moslems and Christians and Jews, like myself, believe different things. But we all do share a passion for the sacred Land of Israel. I have strong, strong positive feelings about the Jewish claim. I always look for good ways to explain to kids this very complex situation. I think this book is a good one. I recommend fellow educators look at it for themselves and decide. I'll buy it, and won't be afraid of explaining to my kids that even though some people do mean things to our relatives in Israel, that our job is to defend ourselves while not hating them.