The Best Jewish Children's Books of 2021

It's the most wonderful time of the year: the time for "best of the year" lists. And it's only appropriate to reference a Christmas song, because some of the year's best Jewish children's books featured interfaith families, as well as interfaith appreciation and cooperation and explorations of Jewish identity, including not one but two unexpected b'nai mitzvah. It was also a great year for biographies, especially of lesser-known Jewish women. And in a less-positive sign of the times, books for older kids often featured contemporary antisemitism.