Learn how to change the world through acts of kindness with our Recommended Mitzvah Books list!

If you have not yet signed up to receive free monthly Jewish books from the PJ Library program, now is the time to start! These books will open up worlds of learning, conversation, engagement, and fun with your whole family!

26 Big Things Small Hands Do by Coleen Paratore

Are We Still Friends? by Ruth Horowitz

Baby Be Kind by Jane Cowen-Fletcher

Bear Feels Sick by Karma Wilson


Be Kind by Naomi Shulman

The Cholent Brigade by Michael Herman

Do Unto Otters by Laurie Keller


Found by Salina Yoon

Grandma Rose’s Magic by Linda Elovitz Marshall

A Hat for Mrs. Goldman by Michelle Edwards

Hillel Takes a Bath by Vicki L. Weber

How Dalia Put a Big Yellow Comforter Inside a Tiny Blue Box by Linda Heller

How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham

How to Be a Mensch by A. Monster by Leslie Kimmelman


I Can Help by David Hyde Costello

It’s a…It’s a…It’s a Mitzvah by Liz Suneby & Diane Heiman 

It’s a Mitzvah, Grover! by Tilda Balsley

It’s a Mitzvah! by Julie Merberg


Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback

Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt

Maddie the Mitzvah Clown by Karen Rostoker-Gruber

The Mitten String by Jennifer Rosner

Mitzi’s Mitzvah by Gloria Koster

Mitzvah Pizza by Sarah Lynn Scheerger

Moti the Mitzvah Mouse by Vivian Newman


My First Kind Words by Naomi Shulman


One Good Deed by Terri Fields


One Little Chicken by Elka Weber


Sammy Spider’s First Mitzvah by Sylvia Rouss


Sara Finds a Mitzva by Rebeka Simhaee

A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead

Stone Soup with Matzoh Balls by Linda Glaser

The Suitcase by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

Welcome by Stephane Barroux

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