Author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
4 books here
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories
Chapter book · ages 8–12 · 620L · 1979
Yiddish folktale sensibility wrapped in deceptively simple stories—kids laugh at the absurdity while absorbing Eastern European Jewish culture, and rereadings reveal layers.
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · 820L
A Nobel laureate's memoir of boyhood in Warsaw rendered as linked stories—funny, tender, and vivid enough that kids glimpse a vanished world and recognize their own small joys in it.
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
Middle grade · ages 8–12 · 720L · 1994
Haunting, tender, and linguistically rich — Singer treats childhood and rural Jewish life with unflinching specificity and quiet moral weight; rereads reveal new layers.
The Fearsome Inn
Picture book · ages 6–10 · 620L · 1984
Singer's only children's picture book—a clever fable about courage and empathy wrapped in Yiddish storytelling warmth, with surreal illustrations that hold up to repeat reads.