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Tu B'Shevat Books and Resources
Tu B'Shevat
Online at Jewish.Community
Tu B'Shevat
from the Jewish National Fund
- Behold the trees / by Sue Alexander ; illustrated by Leonid
Gore.
- A land once protected by all sorts of wonderful trees is reduced
over time by war and environmental neglect to desert, until new
inhabitants plant trees and slowly make Israel bloom again.
- Sammy Spider's first Tu B'Shevat / Sylvia Rouss ; illustrated
by Katherine Janus Kahn.
- Sammy Spider participates in the holiday of Tu B'Shevat by spinning
a special web for his friend the tree.
- The giving tree / by Shel Silverstein.
- A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love
and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.
- Listen to the trees : Jews and the earth / Molly Cone
- Using Torah texts and traditional Jewish stories as a basis,
this book for intermediate grades presents an exploration of ecology
and the interconnectedness of all life on earth. Stories, cartoons,
and full-color illustrations.
- A Prayer for the Earth : The Story of Naamah, Noah's Wife
/ Sandy Sasso
- Noah's wife Naamah is called upon by God to gather the seeds
of every type of plant on Earth and bring them safely onto the ark
before the great flood.
- Pearl plants a tree / story and pictures by Jane Breskin Zalben.
- In the spring Pearl and Grandpa plant an apple tree. Discusses
the celebration of Arbor Day in the United States and around the
world.
- The never-ending greenness / Neil Waldman.
- When his family comes to live in Israel after the end of World
War II, a young boy begins planting and caring for trees, a practice
that spreads across the whole country.
- Honi and his magic circle / by Phillis Gershator
- Retells the wondrous deeds of Honi the Circle Maker who wandered
over the land of ancient Israel planting carob seeds.
- Solomon and the trees / by Matt Biers-Ariel ; illustrated
by Esti Silverberg-Kiss.
- Tells the story of King Solomon and the origins of Tu B'Shevat,
a holiday that is celebrated by the planting of trees.
- It’s Tu B’Shevat / Edie Zolkower
- A board book to introduce Tu B’Shevat to the very young.
- Grandpa and me on Tu B'Shevat / Marji E. Gold-Vukson
- In rhyming, cumulative verse, portrays the tradition of planting a tree on the holiday of Tu B’Shevat. Includes a list of ten ways to celebrate Tu B’Shevat.
- The littlest tree / Sylvia Rouss
- When the villagers come to the forest and choose some of the finest trees for different items in the new synagogue, the littlest tree hopes he can be useful as well.
- Trees, earth, and Torah : a Tu b'Shvat anthology / [edited
by] Ari Elon, Naomi Mara Hyman, Arthur Waskow
- This is the first comprehensive collection of Jewish resources
for observing the increasingly popular midwinter holiday of Tu B'Shvat,
the Jewish "New Year of Trees." Created by the mystics of Sefat,
this holiday celebrates natural and supernatural renewal, and includes
a special 'seder' modeled on the Passover seder.
- Ecology & the Jewish Spirit : Where Nature and the Sacred
Meet / Ellen Bernstein, editor.
- Ecology & the Jewish Spirit is the first book in the emerging
field of religion and the environment to reflect a Jewish ecological
perspective. It describes the wisdom the Jewish tradition has to
offer all of us, to help nature become a sacred, spiritual part
of our own lives.
- Torah of the Earth : Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish
Thought / Arthur Waskow, Editor.
- Human responses to the natural world stretching back through
the last 4,000 years come to life in this major new resource providing
a diverse group of ecological and religious voices. It gives us
an invaluable key to understanding the intersection of ecology and
Judaism, and offers the wisdom of Judaism in dealing with the present
environmental crisis. Both intelligent and accessible, Torah of
the Earth is an essential resource and a reminder to us that humans
and the earth are intertwined. More than 30 leading scholars and
experts enlighten, provoke, and provide a guided tour of ecological
thought from four major Jewish viewpoints.
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