Hanukkah Book Bingo

Play along with Hanukkah Book Bingo to celebrate the holiday! Print the image, read books from these categories to mark your Bingo card, and try to get 3 in a row. Suggested titles are below to make it easy for you. Happy Hanukkah!

MOVABLE BOOKS

Pop-up books, lift-the-flap books, and other books with movable parts or special features.

1. Chanukah Bugs by David A. Carter
2. Spin the Dreidel by Alexandra Cooper
   
3. I Love You a Latke: A Touch-and-Feel Book by Joan Holub
4. Where Is Baby's Dreidel? by Karen Katz
5. Eight Nights of Lights by Leslie Kimmelman
6. Flip Flop Hanukkah by Danny Paller
7. Chanukah Lights by Michael J. Rosen
8. My First Menorah by Selina Yoon

JEWS OF COLOR

Books with protagonists or side characters who are Jews of Color.

1. Antlers with Candles by Chris Barash
2. Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas by Pamela Ehrenberg
   
3. Celebrate Hanukkah: With Light, Latkes, and Dreidels by Deborah Heiligman
4. The Eight Knights of Hanukkah by Leslie Kimmelman
5. Hanukkah at Monica's by Varda Livney
6. The Extraordinary Dreidel by Devorah Omer
7. J Is for Janucá by Melanie Romero 
8. My Hanukkah Book of Opposites by Tammar Stein 

TAKES PLACE IN THE OLDEN DAYS

Books set in the past, from ancient times up through the early 20th century

1. Maccabee! by Tilda Balsley
2. Engineer Ari and the Hanukkah Mishap by Deborah Bodin Cohen
3. Emanuel and the Hanukkah Rescue by Heidi Smith Hyde
   
4. All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah by Emily Jenkins 
5. Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmel
6. Hanukkah at Valley Forge by Stephen Krensky
7. The Boston Chocolate Party by Deborah Prinz
8. Mrs Maccabee's Miracle by Elka Weber
   

OBJECTS COME TO LIFE

Books featuring inanimate objects who speak, who have wishes and dreams, and who often run away

1. The Golem's Latkes by Eric Kimmel
2. The Runaway Latkes by Leslie Kimmelman
   
3. You're My Little Latke by Natalie Marshall
4. The Runaway Dreidel by Lesléa Newman
5. The Littlest Candle by Kerry Olitzky
6. Where Do Diggers Celebrate Hanukkah? by Brianna Caplan Sayres 
7. Meet the Latkes by Alan Silberberg
8. The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming by Lemony Snicket

ANIMAL CHARACTERS CELEBRATING

Books with either anthropomorphic or realistic animals who participate in celebrating Hanukkah

1. Happy Llamakkah! by Laura Gehl
   
2. A Wild, Wild Hanukkah by Jo Gershman
3. Hoppy Hanukkah by Linda Glaser
4. Simon and the Bear by Eric Kimmel
5. Hanukkah Hamster by Michelle Markel
6. Hanukkah with Mazel by Joel Edward Stein
   
7. How Do Dinosaurs Celebrate Chanukah? by Jane Yolen
8. Beni's First Chanukah by Jane Breskin Zalben

INTERFAITH STORY

Books about interfaith friends or families celebrating Hanukkah and other holidays together

1. Daddy Christmas and Hanukkah Mama by Selina Alko
2. Nonna's Hanukkah Surprise by Karen Fisman
3. The Christmas Mitzvah by Jeff Gottesfeld
4. Happy All-idays by Cindy Jin
5. The Ninth Night of Hanukkah by Erica S. Perl
6. The Trees of the Dancing Goats by Patricia Polacco
7. Jackie's Gift by Sharon Robinson
8. Red and Green and Blue and White by Lee Wind

HANUKKAH ROM-COM

These are Young Adult rom-coms, but there are plenty more if you look for Hanukkah rom-coms published for adults

1. Eight Dates and Nights by Betsy Aldredge
2. How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow
3. Snow in Love by Melissa de la Cruz et al
4. As If On Cue by Marissa Kanter
5. It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories by Katherine Locke 
6. Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz
7. Eight Nights of Flirting by Hannah Reynolds
8. Recommended for You by Laura Silverman

HANUKKAH SONG

Books that are singable, including traditional songs, original songs, and parodies

1. I Have a Little Dreidel by Maxie Baum
2. Puppy for Hanukkah by Golden Books
   
3. Honeyky Hanukkah by Woody Guthrie
4. Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel by Shahar Kober
5. The Eight Nights of Chanukah by Lesléa Newman
   
6. Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah by Susan L. Roth
7. Hanukkah Lights by Dian G. Smith
8. I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Dreidel by Caryn Yacowitz