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Age: 3 years to 8 years
Media: watercolor-small strokes to create movement
A wordless picture book for a common tale. Whether the child or the older person reading allows their imagination to run free, this book has large, sometimes full page drawings of a landscape and a few other animals.
Awards: 2010 Caldecott
2009 Cybils Award Nominee for Fiction Picture Books
2010 ALA Notable Children's Book for All Ages
Media: watercolor-small strokes to create movement
A wordless picture book for a common tale. Whether the child or the older person reading allows their imagination to run free, this book has large, sometimes full page drawings of a landscape and a few other animals.
Awards: 2010 Caldecott
2009 Cybils Award Nominee for Fiction Picture Books
2010 ALA Notable Children's Book for All Ages
Age: Preschool-2nd grade
A cute retake on our conception of wild animal adoption when Lucy decides to take in "Squeaker." She soon finds out he's quite a handful until he runs away back to his home. Lucy accepts this and decides in the end that "Children DO make terrible pets."
Great talk-along book.
A cute retake on our conception of wild animal adoption when Lucy decides to take in "Squeaker." She soon finds out he's quite a handful until he runs away back to his home. Lucy accepts this and decides in the end that "Children DO make terrible pets."
Great talk-along book.
Age: 2-5 years
This repetitive tale follows the Bear on his journey to find his missing hat. Perfect for interactive reading, identifying colors, and suspense. Will the Bear find his hat like the readers already have?!
This repetitive tale follows the Bear on his journey to find his missing hat. Perfect for interactive reading, identifying colors, and suspense. Will the Bear find his hat like the readers already have?!
Age: 3-7 years
You sometimes gotta indulge in a little cover-judging shelf grab. And who could resist that joyous smile, those blissfully closed eyes on the most savage of dinosaurs: Mr. T-rex, also known as the cabin boy of this short story. A creative twist on a go-to topic for little boys, this troupe of dinosaurs set sail only to realize the error of their decision when sea sickness sets in. In the end, this setback causes them to appreciate their land-walking ways, but they're not afraid to continue imagining new and daring adventures.
Nothing spectacular with some stilted rhythm but this still makes a delightful addition to the dinosaur fanatics.
You sometimes gotta indulge in a little cover-judging shelf grab. And who could resist that joyous smile, those blissfully closed eyes on the most savage of dinosaurs: Mr. T-rex, also known as the cabin boy of this short story. A creative twist on a go-to topic for little boys, this troupe of dinosaurs set sail only to realize the error of their decision when sea sickness sets in. In the end, this setback causes them to appreciate their land-walking ways, but they're not afraid to continue imagining new and daring adventures.
Nothing spectacular with some stilted rhythm but this still makes a delightful addition to the dinosaur fanatics.
Age: 3-5 years
Familiar Experience: snoring
For all the snorers out there, here's a character with whom to sympathize. Bernard is shunned consistently by the animals at the zoo (perhaps too much) due to his loud snoring. When he thinks he's finally found a reclusive, lonely cave, the bats chase him out. In the end, his family is sad to live without him and decide to tolerate his loud snoring.
Good for accepting others' habits and perfect for reading out loud.
Familiar Experience: snoring
For all the snorers out there, here's a character with whom to sympathize. Bernard is shunned consistently by the animals at the zoo (perhaps too much) due to his loud snoring. When he thinks he's finally found a reclusive, lonely cave, the bats chase him out. In the end, his family is sad to live without him and decide to tolerate his loud snoring.
Good for accepting others' habits and perfect for reading out loud.
Age: 4-8 years
Art: flat colors and perspectives in the folk art tradition
Award: 2012 Top 10 books on the environment (Booklist)
Always a watcher of the world around her, Jane Goodall takes her most important journey to Gombe, Africa where she conducted her monumental research on a group of chimpanzees.This story best exhibits the benefits of patience, gentleness, perseverance, and personal responsibility from Goodall's childhood to old age.
The author wished that, as a child, she had a book with a brave, trail-blazing woman. This appears to be her main reason to write on Jane Goodall, but it is not shown that she is an expert on the subject. She has written almost 50 nonfiction titles. The author used 4 direct quotes from Goodall--an excellent touch of reality. Because there are no "real-life" pictures, this book does have the feel of fiction (this may be good or bad depending on the child). The biggest deterrent for the age group is the long length of the story.
Art: flat colors and perspectives in the folk art tradition
Award: 2012 Top 10 books on the environment (Booklist)
Always a watcher of the world around her, Jane Goodall takes her most important journey to Gombe, Africa where she conducted her monumental research on a group of chimpanzees.This story best exhibits the benefits of patience, gentleness, perseverance, and personal responsibility from Goodall's childhood to old age.
The author wished that, as a child, she had a book with a brave, trail-blazing woman. This appears to be her main reason to write on Jane Goodall, but it is not shown that she is an expert on the subject. She has written almost 50 nonfiction titles. The author used 4 direct quotes from Goodall--an excellent touch of reality. Because there are no "real-life" pictures, this book does have the feel of fiction (this may be good or bad depending on the child). The biggest deterrent for the age group is the long length of the story.
Maybelle has a fond love of her two sticks--especially beating on all kinds of sound making objects in her life. An overdose of rhymes, similar to Dr. Seuss, the story remains in tact and cleverly played.
Includes alligators and drums.
Includes alligators and drums.
Age: Toddler - Kindergarten
Season: Summer
"Hippo was hot and thought how wonderful it would be to live in the water, so he walked and ran until he came to the mountain where Ngai lived. Hippo pleaded and eventually Ngai agreedHippo could live in the water, but only if he did not eat the fish and came onto the land at night" (Goodreads review).
A spark for the curious on how hippo came to reside in the river. Lovely telling that isn't trying too hard.
Season: Summer
"Hippo was hot and thought how wonderful it would be to live in the water, so he walked and ran until he came to the mountain where Ngai lived. Hippo pleaded and eventually Ngai agreedHippo could live in the water, but only if he did not eat the fish and came onto the land at night" (Goodreads review).
A spark for the curious on how hippo came to reside in the river. Lovely telling that isn't trying too hard.