Sylvia Rouss

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1993
  • Latest Book:
    April 2022
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Sammy Spider

Sammy Spider's First Hanukkah (Jun-1993)
Sammy Spider's First Day of School (Feb-2009)
Sammy Spider's First Simchat Torah (Aug-2010)
Sammy Spider's New Friend (Sep-2012)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Sammy Spider's First Hanukkah

    Sammy Spider

    Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Sammy Spider watches longingly as Josh Shapiro lights another candle and receives another brightly-colored dreidel each night of Hanukk...

  • Sammy Spider's First Passover

    Sammy Spider watches longingly as the Shapiro family celebrates Passover. He wants to help Josh find the afikomen (hidden matzah), but his mother reminds him, "Spiders don't celebrate Passover. Spiders spin webs." And his first attempt at spinning a ...

  • Sammy Spider's First Rosh Hashanah

    Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Sammy Spider wants to taste the golden honey the Shapiros set out for a sweet New Year. Mom tells him to stick to spinning webs, but wi...

  • Sammy Spider's First Shabbat

    Sammy Spider yearns to celebrate Shabbat. He watches Josh set the festive table, and is especially fascinated when Mrs. Shapiro braids the challah. As the family gather's to welcome Shabbat, Sammy discovers that something unexpected has happened.<...

  • Sammy Spider's First Purim

    Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Sammy Spider wants to help Josh get ready for Purim. Instead, he gets stuck inside a grogger. How will he escape?...

  • Sammy Spider's First Tu B'Shevat

    Spring is in the air and Sammy Spider watches as Josh Shapiro lowers the roots of a small tree into the ground. As spring turns to summer and summer to fall, Sammy watches Josh nurture the small tree as it sprouts tiny buds, then full blossoms, th...

  • The Littlest Frog

    The smallest of the frogs sent to Egypt when Pharoah refuses to free Moses's people hides under the monarch's bed, and when the ruler chases all the other frogs away and tries to rest, the little one is still there....

  • First Trip to Israel

  • Sammy Spider's First Israel



  • My Baby Brother: What a Miracle!

  • The Littlest Candlesticks

  • Aaron's Bar Mitzvah

  • Tali's Jerusalem Scrapbook

    Every year, Tali's relatives from the States come to celebrate her birthday in Jerusalem, but this year, because of the unrest throughout the country, Tali and her family will celebrate alone with hope that the city will soon be full of joy once agai...

  • Sammy Spider's First Sukkot

    Inside, outside, upside down! Where is Sammy Spider now? Swinging on an apple, from the roof of the Shapiro family sukkah, he is learning about the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. Sammy watches as Josh and his parents build and decorate the lit...

  • God's World

  • The Littlest Pair

    None of the animals want the termites to come aboard Noah’s Ark. After all, termites eat arks. But when the rain starts pouring and the animals start slipping helter skelter across the Ark, the termites use their wood munching abilities to save the...

  • Sammy Spider's First Haggadah

    Sammy leads young children through the steps of the Passover seder, telling the story of the Exodus, asking and answering the Four Questions, and sampling the traditional foods. Includes creative readings and songs, as well as colorful paper collage ...

  • Sammy Spider's First Shavuot

    "What's a recipe?" Sammy Spider asks his mother as he watches Mrs. Shapiro make blintzes for Shavuot. As Sammy follows the holiday preparations, young readers will learn how the Torah, which was given on Shavuot, is also a "recipe for life."

    ...

  • The Littlest Fish

    A little fish comes upon a very large fish who complains of a stomach ache, but when the little fish offers to investigate he finds Jonah inside the fish and comes up with an idea that will help both Jonah and the whale who swallowed him....



  • Sammy Spider's First Day of School

    Sammy Spider

    Sammy Spider thinks he s picked the perfect day to hitch a ride to Josh s preschool. The class is learning about kindness to animals! But what happens when the little spider is discovered in Josh s backpack? Every child will identify with this peek i...

  • Mitzvah the Mutt

    Matzah balls were never meant for a game of fetch, but try telling that to Mitzvah the Mutt when he is rescued by a Jewish family. Mitzvah's silly antics manage to charm his family and his humorous misinterpretations of the Jewish holidays will leave...

  • Sammy Spider's First Simchat Torah

    Sammy Spider

    Sammy Spider crawls down his web to inspect the candy apple Josh has attached to his Simchat Torah flag. When Josh leaves for synagogue he doesnt notice the spider stuck to his apple! Atop Joshs flag, Sammy joins the parade, dances with the Torah, an...

  • Sammy Spider's New Friend

    Sammy Spider

    When an Israeli family moves in next door to the Shapiros, Sammy Spider and Josh learn about the Jewish mitzvah of welcoming guests. In the process, they each make a new friend and learn some Hebrew words....

  • Sammy Spider's First Trip to Israel

    Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Join Sammy Spider on his stow-away adventure as he tours Israel and learns the many meanings of "shalom."...

  • Sammy Spider's First Yom Kippur

    When Josh breaks the rules and plays ball indoors, he finds himself apologizing not only to his parents, but to Sammy Spider as well. A Yom Kippur story about saying, I'm sorry. ...

  • A Watermelon in the Sukkah

    A class of preschool students wonders how to hang a watermelon in the sukkah. ...

  • Sammy Spider's First Book of Jewish Holidays

    Sammy Spider learns about Jewish holidays and what they celebrate. ...

  • No Rules for Michael

    Michael thinks school would be more fun without rules and gets his wish. But is it exactly what he was hoping for? ...

  • David & Akavish the Spider

    When a young shepherd boy aims a stone at a spider web, he little dreams that it is the beginning of a lasting friendship or that the small creature will one day save his life. Akavish the Spider makes a promise to David, which he keeps. But the grea...



  • Sammy Spider's First Mitzvah

    Sammy Spider is back in his fifteenth adventure story, learning about Jewish holidays and values with his buddy Josh Shapiro. In this story, when Josh gets a cold, his friend Moti delivers some chicken soup to him, and Sammy Spider learns about the m...

  • A Touch of Chanukah

  • Holiday for Ari Ant

    When a group of young kindergarteners learn about Lag B'Omer, Ari the playground ant, wants to join in too - but only after several mishaps does he get to enjoy the best of what the holiday offers: stories from the Torah and a feast....

  • Sammy Spider's First Bar Mitzvah

    Josh's cousin Ben is having his bar mitzvah, and Sammy accidentally ends up coming along! He gets an up-close view of the Torah readings, the blessings . . . and one tradition that gets this silly little spider into even more trouble than usual.

  • Sammy Spider's Passover Shapes

  • Sammy Spider's Hanukkah Colors

    Sammy Spider and his buddy Josh are back in their third holiday board book! This time Sammy is enjoying the Hanukkah celebration with his human while also learning about colors. ...

  • Sammy Spider's First Wedding

    Uh oh! Curious Sammy Spider slips from his web and accidentally accompanies the Shapiro family to a wedding. Sammy watches the Jewish ceremony as the bride and groom stand under the beautiful chuppah, hears the seven wedding blessings, and -- phew! -...

  • The Hanukkah Fable of Little Dreidel and Silver Menorah

    Every fable has a moral. On the last night of Hanukkah, a little dreidel learns the important lesson that true happiness comes from just being yourself.

    The plain wooden dreidel is unhappy that no one is playing the dreidel game. "Nobody no...

  • Sammy Spider's First Book of Prayers

    A first Jewish prayer book introduces children to daily and Shabbat prayers, plus special prayers. Sammy Spider watches Josh Shapiro and his family as they recite standard prayers for a variety of occasions. Engaging, rhyming text explains when and w...

  • Sammy Spider's First ABC

    Sammy Spider goes through the English alphabet using the Jewish holidays and traditions celebrated by the Shapiro family. With its sweet rhymes and iconic illustrations, this book is a fun new addition to the Sammy Spider collection....



Award-Winning Books by Sylvia Rouss

The Littlest Pair
2001 National Jewish Book Award -- Children's Picture


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sylvia Rouss has published 39 books.

Sylvia Rouss does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sammy Spider's First ABC, was published in April 2022.

The first book by Sylvia Rouss, Sammy Spider's First Hanukkah, was published in June 1993.

Yes. Sylvia Rouss has 1 series.
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