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Age: Preschool-1st grade
Reynolds provides another winner with Destructosaurus, or, rather, the narrator that is scolding destructosaurus. With the perfect tone and vocabulary, Reynolds' narrator tells Destructosaurus to stop that this very minute as he completely demolishes a city. So perfect. I'm sure the parents will fall in love with this book by the very first page.
Reynolds provides another winner with Destructosaurus, or, rather, the narrator that is scolding destructosaurus. With the perfect tone and vocabulary, Reynolds' narrator tells Destructosaurus to stop that this very minute as he completely demolishes a city. So perfect. I'm sure the parents will fall in love with this book by the very first page.
The Three Musicians: A Children's Book Inspired by Pablo Picasso
Veronique Massenot, Vanessa Hie
Age: Preschool-2nd grade
Art: Based on "Three Musicians" by Pablo Picasso
This was such a gem! Massenot provides a riveting story (especially for this age) of a town living in fear of a monster whom the king is obsessed with. When four strange silhouettes appear, they bring with them song and dance, encouraging the villagers to confront their fears by capturing them in art and speaking openly about them.
Seeing the villagers without fear, the King devises a plot to frame the dog Cocoa-pod as the evil monster.
Based off of Picasso's Three Musicians, Massenot provides the original artwork and some factual information surrounding Picasso and the painting. Teachers and Librarians will welcome this treasure with open arms!
Art: Based on "Three Musicians" by Pablo Picasso
This was such a gem! Massenot provides a riveting story (especially for this age) of a town living in fear of a monster whom the king is obsessed with. When four strange silhouettes appear, they bring with them song and dance, encouraging the villagers to confront their fears by capturing them in art and speaking openly about them.
"People learned to sing, to dance, and to speak openly of their fears, their happinesss, and all those things that make the heart beat faster."
Seeing the villagers without fear, the King devises a plot to frame the dog Cocoa-pod as the evil monster.
Based off of Picasso's Three Musicians, Massenot provides the original artwork and some factual information surrounding Picasso and the painting. Teachers and Librarians will welcome this treasure with open arms!
Age: Preschool-1st grade
Emotions: Bitterness, Spiteful
To get them off their hands, Bonnyripple residents deliver all their grudges to old Cornelius, the Grudge Keeper, for safe keeping. When a huge windstorm blasts through town, the townspeople find that all their grudges have been mixed and mashed together without any semblance of order and retrieval. They become embittered and possessive, looking for their grudges, until one boy realizes that the Grudge Keeper has been buried underneath the huge pile.
With an antiquey, Lemony-Snicket-like artwork, Rockliff encourages discussion about holding grudges with a rich (sometimes overwhelming) array of vocabulary.
Emotions: Bitterness, Spiteful
To get them off their hands, Bonnyripple residents deliver all their grudges to old Cornelius, the Grudge Keeper, for safe keeping. When a huge windstorm blasts through town, the townspeople find that all their grudges have been mixed and mashed together without any semblance of order and retrieval. They become embittered and possessive, looking for their grudges, until one boy realizes that the Grudge Keeper has been buried underneath the huge pile.
With an antiquey, Lemony-Snicket-like artwork, Rockliff encourages discussion about holding grudges with a rich (sometimes overwhelming) array of vocabulary.
Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
Tough Issue: Death
As sparrow is flying above the meadows one day, he hears crying below him. Looking down, he sees a puff of white on a stem--a dandelion. Afraid of not being remembered, Dandelion asks Sparrow to write her story. A lovely tale about being remembered and sharing one's memory through words.
Tough Issue: Death
As sparrow is flying above the meadows one day, he hears crying below him. Looking down, he sees a puff of white on a stem--a dandelion. Afraid of not being remembered, Dandelion asks Sparrow to write her story. A lovely tale about being remembered and sharing one's memory through words.
Age: 3rd-5th grade
Klise adds a really unique format to this silly book. The story is told through mail, drawings, notes, and newspaper pages, giving this story a fun ambiance similar to nonfiction books. This first book doesn't have too much mystery; rather, Klise is setting up these characters for future books.
Klise adds a really unique format to this silly book. The story is told through mail, drawings, notes, and newspaper pages, giving this story a fun ambiance similar to nonfiction books. This first book doesn't have too much mystery; rather, Klise is setting up these characters for future books.
Age: Middle School-High School
Although this finale is not as high action as the others (until the end), Oliver provides a nicely bound ending to this series that questions love's power to destroy and to inspire. Oliver's characterization throughout these novels is flawless. Throughout Lena's relationship with Julian, she never fully returns his love, but she is still drawn to him. Although I always get annoyed by love triangles (and most of that annoyance is directed at the person who is choosing), I really felt the sincerity behind Lena's conflict: does she force a love with someone because he is all she has or does she wait forever for her first love?
Miss Oliver will be on my radar from now on.
Although this finale is not as high action as the others (until the end), Oliver provides a nicely bound ending to this series that questions love's power to destroy and to inspire. Oliver's characterization throughout these novels is flawless. Throughout Lena's relationship with Julian, she never fully returns his love, but she is still drawn to him. Although I always get annoyed by love triangles (and most of that annoyance is directed at the person who is choosing), I really felt the sincerity behind Lena's conflict: does she force a love with someone because he is all she has or does she wait forever for her first love?
Miss Oliver will be on my radar from now on.
Age: Infant-preschool
Emotions: Messiness, destruction
Great rhyming meter full of dino vocab. While all the other dinosaurs are enjoying craft time or play time, Tyrannosaurs plows in and enjoys wrecking time. But the other dinosaurs get upset and Tyrannosaurus is left lonely and sad. All on his own, he figures out how to fix his destructive manner by repairing his mistakes and tidying up what he destroyed. This book will serve as a great way to discuss that making a mess of other people's hard work is not very nice.
Emotions: Messiness, destruction
Great rhyming meter full of dino vocab. While all the other dinosaurs are enjoying craft time or play time, Tyrannosaurs plows in and enjoys wrecking time. But the other dinosaurs get upset and Tyrannosaurus is left lonely and sad. All on his own, he figures out how to fix his destructive manner by repairing his mistakes and tidying up what he destroyed. This book will serve as a great way to discuss that making a mess of other people's hard work is not very nice.
Age: Preschool-1st grade
Idle brings us another winner by juxtaposing the simple instructions for enjoying a camping excursion with the unexpected reality of doing it with dinosaurs. So beautiful!
Idle brings us another winner by juxtaposing the simple instructions for enjoying a camping excursion with the unexpected reality of doing it with dinosaurs. So beautiful!
Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
Animals: Egg-laying hen
Familiar experience: Getting lost
Peggy is swept away from the comfortable surroundings of her backyard chicken coop by a strong gust of wind that takes her to the city. As a child, I always loved books with multiple images on a page, showing a character interacting with the story in various ways. Walker provides just this, giving children a lot to enjoy and discuss as the text is sparse (but certainly not the plot or the illustrations).
Animals: Egg-laying hen
Familiar experience: Getting lost
Peggy is swept away from the comfortable surroundings of her backyard chicken coop by a strong gust of wind that takes her to the city. As a child, I always loved books with multiple images on a page, showing a character interacting with the story in various ways. Walker provides just this, giving children a lot to enjoy and discuss as the text is sparse (but certainly not the plot or the illustrations).
Age: Preschool-1st Grade
Concept Skill: Color
Nature: World
It is indeed a book about green--but Gifford is asking the listeners to guess what is the Great Big Green which ends up being the world. I appreciated that she kept returning to this question throughout the book so that children could remember.
Concept Skill: Color
Nature: World
It is indeed a book about green--but Gifford is asking the listeners to guess what is the Great Big Green which ends up being the world. I appreciated that she kept returning to this question throughout the book so that children could remember.