Just Like Queen Esther

Atara loves to wear her crown - to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a girl, not a boy, like everyone thought at first. But when Atara reads the story of Queen Esther, on the Jewish holiday of Purim - she realises that you don't need a costume to express who you really are...

Rabbi Kerry Olitzky is an author and educator, and was voted by Newsweek as one of the leading 50 rabbis in North America. His most recent children's books include Where's the Potty on this Ark? and The Littlest Candle: A Hanukkah Story, as well as 10 animated preschool stories on the JiTap platform. Kerry is based in the New York area. Ari Moffic is a Jewish educator and has published articles in the field of interfaith families, as well as education for neurodiverse children. She is raising a transgender child which she has written about in various Anglo-Jewish publications, such as Kveller, eJewishPhilanthropy, and Sh'ma. Ari holds an MA in Jewish education and was ordained a rabbi at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Ari is based in Illinois.