Krias Shema Booklet for Girls, Large Laminated Bedroom Art #187

The girls' version, #187, illustrates a bedroom scene of its own across a large 6.5 by 9.5 inch page. Big enough to be read from a bed without being held close, and the artwork is the reason children stay with these — a booklet that looks like her room is one she asks for, rather than one she is handed.

Seven pages of glossy laminate. Lamination is what buys the years here: nothing tears at the fold, nothing goes soft from damp hands, and a spill wipes off instead of ending the booklet. This is a piece that stays on the nightstand from the time she starts saying shema on her own well into elementary school.

Two nusachos are printed, Ashkenaz and Eduth Mizrach, so what she reads matches what her family says. Bought for a single child it is a bedside fixture; bought by the class it is one of the few school giveaways that gets used nightly instead of being put in a drawer.

• Malchut design #187
• Nisuch: Ashkenaz, Eduth Mizrach

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