Hanukkah 2025 - Reads for Babies, Kids & Teens

Updated December 5, 2025
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Construction site : Hanukkah lights
Rinker, Sherri Duskey
Celebrate Hanukkah with the crew from the New York Times bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site series in this heartwarming seasonal board book--the perfect addition to any young reader's holiday library! This lift-the-flap board book...
Hanukkah 1-2-3!: ; A First Counting Book
Wieder, Joy Nelkin.
Learning to count is as easy as 1, 2, 3 in this unique board book celebrating Hanukkah! From opening one gift to lighting two menorah candles and from frying three latkes all the way to ten people singing a round, young readers will grasp how to count as they learn about the Jewish...
Lost and found Hanukkah
Preble, Joy
An inclusive, heartwarming Hanukkah tale that mirrors the holiday's themes of rededication and resilience. Nate's beloved menorah was lost in his family's recent move, and finding the perfect new one isn't going well. With Hanukkah one night away, Nate is missing his menorah and everything else...
The mouse who loved latkes
Wieder, Joy Nelkin
When the Katz family moves in, C.J. the mouse is scared. Nibbling jelly doughnut crumbs in the kitchen, he hears a soft voice say, "Hello." The Katz family is spinning a dreidel and eating chocolate coins. It looks like fun, but a mouse can't play with cats! "Hello again," says the soft voice....
The book of candles : eight poems for Hanukkah
Snyder, Laurel
From Sydney Taylor Award winner and National Jewish Book Award honoree Laurel Snyder comes a warm, reverential, surprising, and fresh story of one very special Hanukkah. In a dark, dark room, one thin candle wakes, bursts to life Thus begins the first...
My first dino-Hanukkah
Wheeler, Lisa
Paper Book
Friends and family. / Eight winter nights. / Light the candle. / Menorah shines bright. Lisa Wheeler's playful rhyming text and Barry Gott's colorful illustrations let young kids join in on the fun as dinos celebrate Hanukkah. A festive way to prepare for the holiday!
Hanukkah pajamakkahs
Henry, Dara
Paper Book
A lively picture book celebrating holiday traditions, the patience of parenting, sibling relationships, and children's fondness for pajamas, along with a fun, read-aloud, new book to help everyone celebrate the holiday together - in, or out, of pajamakkahs. When Ruthie...
A dragon for Hanukkah
Mlynowski, Sarah
Paper Book
A USA Today bestseller! Get ready for the most magical holiday ever, with this dazzling picture book debut from New York Times bestselling author Sarah Mlynowski that Laura Numeroff, #1 bestselling author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, called a "delightful,...
Let it glow
Meyer, Marissa
Paper Book
Now a NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller! When Aviva Davis and Holly Martin meet at the holiday pageant tryouts for their local senior's center, they think they must be seeing double. While they both knew they were adopted, they had no idea they had a biological sibling,...
Charley and Seymour's Hanukkah miracle
Ritt, Melody Howard
Paper Book
Best friends Charley Chipmunk and Seymour Squirrel are planning their Hanukkah celebration. "I'll fry the latkes, and you bring the menorah and the candles," Seymour suggests. But when Hanukkah arrives Charley can't remember what he is supposed to bring. He knows it started with the letter...
Hanukkah hippity-hop
Kimmel, Barbara
Paper Book
It's time to celebrate--and get your wiggles out--by doing the Hanukkah Hippity-Hop! March like a Maccabee and stomp your feet. Then shake like the jelly in a doughnut treat. An active approach to Hanukkah for toddlers.
Rachel Friedman and eight not-perfect nights of Hanukkah
Kapit, Sarah
Paper Book
Join our hilarious Jewish heroine as she embarks on a quest to reignite her family's Hanukkah spirit in the second book of this chapter book series. Rachel is determined to make this the happiest Hanukkah ever. She's carefully planned eight awesome activities for...
Gingerbread dreidels
Zalben, Jane Breskin
Paper Book
Chanukah and Christmas come together in this story of an interfaith, intergenerational family's blended holiday. Gelt and gingerbread, menorahs and trees, red and green and blue and white . . . When Christmas and the first night of Chanukah occur on the same day, Sophie and Max...
Eight dates and nights
Aldredge, Betsy
Paper Book
From menorahs to moments of magic in Texas--fall in love this Festival of Lights with this cozy holiday romance! New Yorker Hannah Levin is allergic to exactly two things, horses and tinsel. Unfortunately, she's surrounded by both when she's snowed in at her grandmother's home in...
Where do diggers celebrate Hanukkah?
Sayres, Brianna Caplan
Paper Book
Celebrate Hanukkah with your favorite Diggers! For fans of the bestselling Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? and its companion holiday vehicle books. It's Hanukkah! How do you celebrate? Do you light the menorah? Play dreidel with your friends? How about eating...
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Paper Book
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Sick kids in love
Moskowitz, Hannah
Paper Book
An ALA Sydney Taylor Award Honoree A Junior Library Guild Selection Isabel has one rule: no dating. It's easier-- It's safer-- It's better-- --for the other person. She's got issues. She's got secrets. She's got rheumatoid arthritis....

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