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Age: 1 years-toddler
Although the illustrations are inviting with loads to look at,there are a LOT of verses, potentially grating on the patience of the reader. Read it with my 2-year-old and she loved it. Not grating in the least.
Although the illustrations are inviting with loads to look at,
Age: Toddler-Kindergarten
Emotion: Unhappiness
Dave's home is perfect and his friends like it, too. But he's not happy and he thinks that a new home might fit the bill to cheer him up. In his explorations, every new cave he comes across has something unpleasant about it until he finds the perfect cave:.
Large illustrations with a quick story make this an excellent read-aloud with ample opportunities for supplementary questions asked by the reader. A great way to discuss how people can feel unhappy with their material surroundings but the answer isn't always to abandon them.
Emotion: Unhappiness
Dave's home is perfect and his friends like it, too. But he's not happy and he thinks that a new home might fit the bill to cheer him up. In his explorations, every new cave he comes across has something unpleasant about it until he finds the perfect cave:
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his original homeLarge illustrations with a quick story make this an excellent read-aloud with ample opportunities for supplementary questions asked by the reader. A great way to discuss how people can feel unhappy with their material surroundings but the answer isn't always to abandon them.
Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
Fascinating wood carvings and poetic styling observe the fall preparations of animals for the oncoming winter cold.
The straight-forward observations of the narrator are brief (excellent for reading aloud) but the vocabulary is delightfully unique and rich with action infused descriptors. Certain animals/activities can be excluded in a read-aloud if the audience has a lower attention span.
Fascinating wood carvings and poetic styling observe the fall preparations of animals for the oncoming winter cold.
The straight-forward observations of the narrator are brief (excellent for reading aloud) but the vocabulary is delightfully unique and rich with action infused descriptors. Certain animals/activities can be excluded in a read-aloud if the audience has a lower attention span.
Age: Infants-Preschool
Although it has been done before, sturdy, large pages give this rendition a boost above the others.
Although it has been done before, sturdy, large pages give this rendition a boost above the others.
Age: Preschool+
Emotions: Happy, angry, scared, jealous, ashamed, sad, love, nervous
Straight forward approach to talking about feelings including what they are and how they affect us and how important it is to acknowledge them. Although emotion books have been done before, Kreul's unique contributions include her inclusion of empathy (how when we understand our feelings, it is easier to understand others) and that others may want to "talk away" our feelings ("Don't worry about it!") but they are still there.
White backgrounds put extra focus on facial and body expressions, also facilitating a good classroom read-aloud.
Emotions: Happy, angry, scared, jealous, ashamed, sad, love, nervous
Straight forward approach to talking about feelings including what they are and how they affect us and how important it is to acknowledge them. Although emotion books have been done before, Kreul's unique contributions include her inclusion of empathy (how when we understand our feelings, it is easier to understand others) and that others may want to "talk away" our feelings ("Don't worry about it!") but they are still there.
White backgrounds put extra focus on facial and body expressions, also facilitating a good classroom read-aloud.
Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
A fine question, indeed! Readers can share this story a couple of ways: read the rhyming couplets aloud to a class or include 1-2 sentences of nonfiction detail provided at the bottom for the more inquisitive (or older) crowds. Sure to keep the interest (and tickle the funny bone) of many listeners.
A fine question, indeed! Readers can share this story a couple of ways: read the rhyming couplets aloud to a class or include 1-2 sentences of nonfiction detail provided at the bottom for the more inquisitive (or older) crowds. Sure to keep the interest (and tickle the funny bone) of many listeners.
Age: Preschool
Food: Cake
Familiar Experience: Ruining something
Snickerdoodle LOVES mom's famous lemon poppy seed cake and can't help but have a taste. With his mother's demonic warning at the back of his head, he trips and falls onto the cake. When his mom finds out and, with the composure of an angel, she offers Snickerdoodle a chance to redeem himself by asking him how he can solve the problem. With the help of his siblings, he bakes Nana another, slightly wobbly, cake.
Food: Cake
Familiar Experience: Ruining something
Snickerdoodle LOVES mom's famous lemon poppy seed cake and can't help but have a taste. With his mother's demonic warning at the back of his head, he trips and falls onto the cake. When his mom finds out and, with the composure of an angel, she offers Snickerdoodle a chance to redeem himself by asking him how he can solve the problem. With the help of his siblings, he bakes Nana another, slightly wobbly, cake.
Age: Middle School+
Tough Issue: Poverty, survival,
A fictionalized account of very true events that occur to refugee children and adults attempting to flee the intense poverty, crime, and violence of their homelands. I appreciated that Colfer chose a main character whose background was to reunite with his sister seeking a better life (immigrant) instead of being chased from home by war and violence (refugee). Oftentimes in fiction or the news, refugees plight is elevated above an immigrant escaping poverty but both stories need to be told to understand this world crisis.
Tough Issue: Poverty, survival,
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death of a brotherA fictionalized account of very true events that occur to refugee children and adults attempting to flee the intense poverty, crime, and violence of their homelands. I appreciated that Colfer chose a main character whose background was to reunite with his sister seeking a better life (immigrant) instead of being chased from home by war and violence (refugee). Oftentimes in fiction or the news, refugees plight is elevated above an immigrant escaping poverty but both stories need to be told to understand this world crisis.
Animals: Track identification
Great vocabulary for movement and baby animal names are paired with footprints in each animal's native habitat. I only wish the format was larger for reading aloud.
Great vocabulary for movement and baby animal names are paired with footprints in each animal's native habitat. I only wish the format was larger for reading aloud.
Age: Kindergarten+
When the S and E fall off the word Moose, Cow goes on the hunt for glue. But with no glue around, Cow decides to spell it out by finding one letter at a time. An excellent read-aloud for practicing spelling and recognizing that words are made of smaller parts, like when Cow takes a 'b' from "bear chair" and it becomes "ear chair." Silly and playful and delightful.
When the S and E fall off the word Moose, Cow goes on the hunt for glue. But with no glue around, Cow decides to spell it out by finding one letter at a time. An excellent read-aloud for practicing spelling and recognizing that words are made of smaller parts, like when Cow takes a 'b' from "bear chair" and it becomes "ear chair." Silly and playful and delightful.