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Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
Familiar Experience: Allergic to dogs
Ally's stuck with a problem. She wants a dog but is allergic to them! With the power of her imagination, she creates a new dog for each season. Even when the kids tell her "there's no such thing" she just walks away and plays with her new friend. I suppose it's a little disconcerting that she only has imaginary dog friends, but kids won't notice, being swept away by her sweet imagination and creativity.
Familiar Experience: Allergic to dogs
Ally's stuck with a problem. She wants a dog but is allergic to them! With the power of her imagination, she creates a new dog for each season. Even when the kids tell her "there's no such thing" she just walks away and plays with her new friend. I suppose it's a little disconcerting that she only has imaginary dog friends, but kids won't notice, being swept away by her sweet imagination and creativity.
Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
Animals: Bunnies
Candace Fleming keeps Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! afloat with this excellent addition to the series. Words are rhymed with precision but not overabundance and the characters (even Mr. McGreeley) are interesting and well developed. Not much is life-altering in this addition but it is certainly satisfying.
Animals: Bunnies
Candace Fleming keeps Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! afloat with this excellent addition to the series. Words are rhymed with precision but not overabundance and the characters (even Mr. McGreeley) are interesting and well developed. Not much is life-altering in this addition but it is certainly satisfying.
Age: Kindergarten-1st grade
Things That Go: Cars
History: 1903
It's the dawn of a new century and the Tweedles are perfectly content riding their bikes around, while the rest of their neighbors drive cars. Without much reason why, Papa Tweedle decides to get a car for the family--an electric car! Holding several plots in one story (good for older listeners), we follow the Tweedles and their adventures with their new car.
Were electric cars around in the 1900s? Why, yes they were (thanks Wikipedia)! Too bad there is no author's note to give the story any historical context.
Things That Go: Cars
History: 1903
It's the dawn of a new century and the Tweedles are perfectly content riding their bikes around, while the rest of their neighbors drive cars. Without much reason why, Papa Tweedle decides to get a car for the family--an electric car! Holding several plots in one story (good for older listeners), we follow the Tweedles and their adventures with their new car.
Were electric cars around in the 1900s? Why, yes they were (thanks Wikipedia)! Too bad there is no author's note to give the story any historical context.
Age: Preschool-1st grade
Animals: Mouse
Art: Ballet
Sweet, soft illustrations give life to a little mouse who finds herself mesmerized by the ballet. Although the chase scenes are so repetitive that it gets tedious, the mouse's kind-hearted gifts towards a ballet dancer give this story a sweet ending.
Animals: Mouse
Art: Ballet
Sweet, soft illustrations give life to a little mouse who finds herself mesmerized by the ballet. Although the chase scenes are so repetitive that it gets tedious, the mouse's kind-hearted gifts towards a ballet dancer give this story a sweet ending.
Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
This is definitely a step away from picture books being created today. Very fantastical, Duck lends his prize-winning jelly bean collection to the king. After a year of waiting, Duck goes to get his jelly beans back, meeting a dog, a ladder, a stream, and bees along the way. They all wish to go with them but cannot for one reason or another. So Duck tells each one to make themself small and jump into his pocket. Cause, you know, just go along with it. It all reveals itself in the end.
This would be a great story to storytell, possibly with felt props that you can stick in your pocket. Based off of the French folk tale Drakestail (also known as Quackling). I wish Gerstein would have included some back matter mentioning its origins!
This is definitely a step away from picture books being created today. Very fantastical, Duck lends his prize-winning jelly bean collection to the king. After a year of waiting, Duck goes to get his jelly beans back, meeting a dog, a ladder, a stream, and bees along the way. They all wish to go with them but cannot for one reason or another. So Duck tells each one to make themself small and jump into his pocket. Cause, you know, just go along with it. It all reveals itself in the end.
This would be a great story to storytell, possibly with felt props that you can stick in your pocket. Based off of the French folk tale Drakestail (also known as Quackling). I wish Gerstein would have included some back matter mentioning its origins!
Age: Kindergarten-3rd grade
What a lovely and insightful book that examines the healing power of discussion and spending one-on-one time with someone.
"Celia is the town listener. She listens to people's little problems, big problems, and all the in-between problems. Once they have shared their troubles with her and let them go--giving her the seeds of sorrow--they feel lighter and happier" (Inside jacket description). Celia then turns the seeds to life and transforms them into things which give happiness, donning the pages with beautiful circular bursts of color against a grey, penciled background.
What a lovely and insightful book that examines the healing power of discussion and spending one-on-one time with someone.
"Celia is the town listener. She listens to people's little problems, big problems, and all the in-between problems. Once they have shared their troubles with her and let them go--giving her the seeds of sorrow--they feel lighter and happier" (Inside jacket description). Celia then turns the seeds to life and transforms them into things which give happiness, donning the pages with beautiful circular bursts of color against a grey, penciled background.
Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
Animals: Chicken
This book starts out with an anatomical rendering of two chickens: a typical chicken and Henny. There is one difference: the typical chicken has wings and Henny has arms. Stanton goes on to show how much Henny loves her uniqueness, and how others teasing make her dislike it. Eventually, Henny comes to realize all the things she can do with her arms such as helping the farmer out, pointing, making a point,and maybe, just maybe, she could fly.
This book will certainly provide younger children with a way of looking at differences and unique traits each other has.
Animals: Chicken
This book starts out with an anatomical rendering of two chickens: a typical chicken and Henny. There is one difference: the typical chicken has wings and Henny has arms. Stanton goes on to show how much Henny loves her uniqueness, and how others teasing make her dislike it. Eventually, Henny comes to realize all the things she can do with her arms such as helping the farmer out, pointing, making a point,and maybe, just maybe, she could fly.
This book will certainly provide younger children with a way of looking at differences and unique traits each other has.
Age: Preschool-1st grade
Nature: Plants
A unique rendering of a seed growing from the ground to the sky. A helping worm lends support to a nervous seed scared of the uncertainties ahead of it. Beware of the pull out pages--this may not last long in a library. Also, I got some beef with publishers and creating fold out pages that are impossible to pull out without tearing. Why does this keep happening?!
Nature: Plants
A unique rendering of a seed growing from the ground to the sky. A helping worm lends support to a nervous seed scared of the uncertainties ahead of it. Beware of the pull out pages--this may not last long in a library. Also, I got some beef with publishers and creating fold out pages that are impossible to pull out without tearing. Why does this keep happening?!
Age: Preschool-1st grade
A sweet tale about a girl's budding imagination as she dreams of becoming a mermaid through a pair of discarded flippers. The ending has a cute twist as she inspires more children to dress up as mermaids, depicting the pictures on a webpage. There is a URL at the top of the page and I originally thought that maybe this was an actual internet phenomenon. But that URL is, in fact, the website for the publisher. Nice shameless plug there, publisher.
A sweet tale about a girl's budding imagination as she dreams of becoming a mermaid through a pair of discarded flippers. The ending has a cute twist as she inspires more children to dress up as mermaids, depicting the pictures on a webpage. There is a URL at the top of the page and I originally thought that maybe this was an actual internet phenomenon. But that URL is, in fact, the website for the publisher. Nice shameless plug there, publisher.
Age: Preschool-1st grade
Fairytale: Fractured Three Billy Goats Gruff
Music: Guitar, Bass, Drums
I'll definitely be keeping this handy for my Three Billy Goats Gruff fairytale program! Crosby gives this traditional tale a groovin' twist as the three billy goats try to cross a bridge to go to Nanny May's Shimmy Shack for their gig. An old man content on a quiet fishing day on the bridge keeps getting interrupted by the billy goats and the fish keep getting scared away.
This fractured tale gives a bit more sympathy towards the old man guarding the bridge without disturbing the original tale.
Fairytale: Fractured Three Billy Goats Gruff
Music: Guitar, Bass, Drums
I'll definitely be keeping this handy for my Three Billy Goats Gruff fairytale program! Crosby gives this traditional tale a groovin' twist as the three billy goats try to cross a bridge to go to Nanny May's Shimmy Shack for their gig. An old man content on a quiet fishing day on the bridge keeps getting interrupted by the billy goats and the fish keep getting scared away.
This fractured tale gives a bit more sympathy towards the old man guarding the bridge without disturbing the original tale.