Judyth Groner

A pretty little board book with colorful pictures and few words for a very young child. Reading the reviews, I realized the book is as much about means of transportation as it is about places in Israel. A young boy travels to Ben Gurion airport, the hills of Jerusalem, the wall of the Old City, a kibbutz, Eilat, the desert, Masada, Beersheva, and the Dead Sea by plane, in a tour bus, on foot, in a tractor, in a glass-bottomed boat, in a jeep, in cable car, on a camel, and by floating respectively. There is very little detail in the pictures and no almost no information in the text, no real interaction with people, and nothing obviously Jewish about the book (although the locations have a Jewish connection), even though it is published by Kar-Ben and is a PJ Library book. But it ends with an invitation to visit what might well be a charming country; it's a sweet book.… (meer)