"In this updated edition, Kropf has retained most of the elements that made It's Challah Time! a classic picture book. Boys and girls in a preschool setting participate in the various steps to make challah for Shabbat: adding the ingredients, mixing and kneading the dough, braiding the strands, and baking the sweet challah. You can almost taste and smell the challah as it is taken out of the oven! When it is ready, the children say the blessings over the Shabbat candles, grape juice, and bread. Included in this edition is the recipe for whole wheat honey challah, as well as blessings in Hebrew, transliterations, and translations. The stunning photos are different from those in the original edition published in 2002, for they portray children who come from diverse backgrounds. Two points to note: not all the boys in the photos wear kippot; the labels on the packages are in Hebrew." -- Anne Dublin, retired librarian of Holy Blossom Temple; author of ACage Without Bars (Second Story Press, 2018), Toronto, AJL.