Get ready for Shabbat with the Gan Yeladeem Learning Center at Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple! We invite children from infants through pre-k to join us as we welcome special guest, author Laura Gehl, who will read her book, Koala Challah.

Lila wants to help her family get ready for Shabbat dinner. Her plan is to bake her own challah—but each time she tries, the challah comes out wrong. What’s the secret to making the very best koala challah?

Laura Gehl is a former teacher and mother of four. Laura’s highly interactive presentations are popular with preschool and elementary school children. But let’s get to the more interesting stuff:
Favorite food: Chocolate. Not very original, but most people who claim to have a different favorite food are either lying or missing several very important taste buds.
Favorite children’s books: Waaaaay too many to list. But “A Birthday for Frances,” “The Perfect Nest,” “The Big Orange Splot,” and “This is Not My Hat” are a few for the picture book crowd. For older kids, anything by Gordon Korman, Susan Cooper, or L.M Montgomery.

Arrangements for Laura Gehl were through the Jewish Book Council that serves to promote the reading, writing, publication, distribution and public awareness of books that reflect the rich variety of the Jewish experience.