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Age: Older preschool-1st grade
Sports: Ping pong
Food: Edamame
World champions and teammates Ping and Pong play a final match to find out who is the best. While one wins, Ping and Pong remain friends and continue a healthy, lifelong competition. With not much plot or text, Gatti manages to convey the joy of competition without glorifying winning.
Sports: Ping pong
Food: Edamame
World champions and teammates Ping and Pong play a final match to find out who is the best. While one wins, Ping and Pong remain friends and continue a healthy, lifelong competition. With not much plot or text, Gatti manages to convey the joy of competition without glorifying winning.
Age: K+
Fractured fairytale: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Art: Acting, twist on stage fright
Papa Bear stumbles through his lines after realizing he's in a story, causing him to flee in shame. But with the help of Mama Bear's porridge, he decides to come back. It's fun to watch Papa Bear play with the text on the page and to hear him questioning his surroundings. A delightful meta tale that also addresses stage fright.
Fractured fairytale: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Art: Acting, twist on stage fright
Papa Bear stumbles through his lines after realizing he's in a story, causing him to flee in shame. But with the help of Mama Bear's porridge, he decides to come back. It's fun to watch Papa Bear play with the text on the page and to hear him questioning his surroundings. A delightful meta tale that also addresses stage fright.
Age: K-3rd grade
A fabulous array of close-up shots of children representing different cultures throughout the world. Shows culture through dress, food, dance, and generations gone.
A fabulous array of close-up shots of children representing different cultures throughout the world. Shows culture through dress, food, dance, and generations gone.
Tough issue:
Unfortunately, I did not finish this book. The conversational writing style contributed to the length of the book and I just don't read fast enough for it to have captured my interest. An excellent contribution to literature but just not for me.
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Sudden death of a parentUnfortunately, I did not finish this book. The conversational writing style contributed to the length of the book and I just don't read fast enough for it to have captured my interest. An excellent contribution to literature but just not for me.
Age: Toddler-Preschool
Animals wash and clean themselves in a variety of fun ways from a cat licking his fur to a polar bear scrubbing her face with snow. This book becomes extra fun when the narrator then asks how you take a bath and proceeds to show a child taking a bath like the aforementioned animals. I can just hear kids screaming, "Nooooo!" in response. The last page shows the "proper" child's way to take a bath ending in a nice, warm hug from mom.
My only question is when will this come out in a big book format?
Animals wash and clean themselves in a variety of fun ways from a cat licking his fur to a polar bear scrubbing her face with snow. This book becomes extra fun when the narrator then asks how you take a bath and proceeds to show a child taking a bath like the aforementioned animals. I can just hear kids screaming, "Nooooo!" in response. The last page shows the "proper" child's way to take a bath ending in a nice, warm hug from mom.
My only question is when will this come out in a big book format?
Age: Toddler-Preschool
Family: Brother and sister
Emotion: Determination, doubt, support
Henry is ready to do what no pig has done before: fly! After many experiments, much to the amusement of his sister, Henry loses his gusto and admits defeat. Feeling guilty for doubting him and wanting to make her brother feel better, Henrietta steps in to find a solution that will have them flying among the clouds. A nice story of sibling camaraderie and helping someone achieve their goals.
Family: Brother and sister
Emotion: Determination, doubt, support
Henry is ready to do what no pig has done before: fly! After many experiments, much to the amusement of his sister, Henry loses his gusto and admits defeat. Feeling guilty for doubting him and wanting to make her brother feel better, Henrietta steps in to find a solution that will have them flying among the clouds. A nice story of sibling camaraderie and helping someone achieve their goals.
Age: Preschool+
Emotions: Anger, loneliness mindfulness, calm
Watch out! Simon's anger is out of control. The very first time he gets mad, his anger manifests into a ram, charging after anything that made Simon mad. Each new instance of Simon's anger transforms the creature into another large, aggressive animal until he finally becomes so full of anger that no one wants to play with him anymore. Yelling the anger away only seems to make it stronger so Simon decides to sit down until calm spreads through his whole body.
An excellent tool for discussing why we get angry, what happens when we feed that anger, and one way to manage it (calming the body down and practicing a form of visual release). Extensive back material for parents and teachers help adults discuss this common human emotion with children including the role of parents and teachers, using this book at home with your child, using this book in a group, follow-up activities, and teaching children mindfulness.
Emotions: Anger, loneliness mindfulness, calm
Watch out! Simon's anger is out of control. The very first time he gets mad, his anger manifests into a ram, charging after anything that made Simon mad. Each new instance of Simon's anger transforms the creature into another large, aggressive animal until he finally becomes so full of anger that no one wants to play with him anymore. Yelling the anger away only seems to make it stronger so Simon decides to sit down until calm spreads through his whole body.
An excellent tool for discussing why we get angry, what happens when we feed that anger, and one way to manage it (calming the body down and practicing a form of visual release). Extensive back material for parents and teachers help adults discuss this common human emotion with children including the role of parents and teachers, using this book at home with your child, using this book in a group, follow-up activities, and teaching children mindfulness.
Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
The act of learning to read is the main focus in this Llama Llama addition but without a true story. Lots of literacy covered here, from learning the alphabet to decoding to sight words to background knowledge to the love of reading--it all manages to get mentioned but with so much, there's no real story and the book feels strictly didactic at the end. The rhymes were fun and the celebration of reading is achieved but look elsewhere for an emerging reader story with more depth.
The act of learning to read is the main focus in this Llama Llama addition but without a true story. Lots of literacy covered here, from learning the alphabet to decoding to sight words to background knowledge to the love of reading--it all manages to get mentioned but with so much, there's no real story and the book feels strictly didactic at the end. The rhymes were fun and the celebration of reading is achieved but look elsewhere for an emerging reader story with more depth.
Age: Infant-Preschool
Music: Playing instruments
Thick, sturdy pages, fun sound effect words, and a direct invitation to play the over-sized instruments will capture the interest of the most reluctant storytime listener. Paired with the large instruments is a smaller, corner image of a child playing it, offering visual cues to the listener of how it is actually played. Simple and effective.
Music: Playing instruments
Thick, sturdy pages, fun sound effect words, and a direct invitation to play the over-sized instruments will capture the interest of the most reluctant storytime listener. Paired with the large instruments is a smaller, corner image of a child playing it, offering visual cues to the listener of how it is actually played. Simple and effective.