Goodnight Moon to Iron John

Goodnight, Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (HarperFestival, 1991
A classic and a good time to say bedtime prayers. Check any siddur for bedtime prayers. They are usually found right after the Maariv prayers.

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (Random House, 1960)

A Jewish ending (start on page 54) (from a website I can’t remember):

Sam!

Will you never see?

They are not KOSHER,

So let me be!

I will not eat green eggs and ham.

I will not eat them Sam-I-am.

But I will eat green eggs with a biscuit.

Or I will try them with a Trisket.

I will eat green eggs in a box,

If you serve them wearing socks.

And those green eggs are worth a try

Scrambled up inside some matzoh brie!

And in boat upon the river,

I will eat green eggs with bow and quiver.

So if you’re a Jewish Dr. Seuss fan,

But troubled by green eggs and ham,

Let your friends in on the whole scoop:

Green eggs taste best with matzoh ball soup!

Iron John

Many Jewish values are incorporated into this classic story. In Eric Kimmel’s version, Iron John, (Holiday House, 1996), the hero, Walter-in-the-Mud, is saved by Elsa the Garden Girl who is dirty but worthy. In the earlier versions the beautiful but unworthy princess gets the hero.