Babies: Picture Book (Educational Childrens Books Collection) - Level 2 (Planet Collection 1)

Each page-spread is a poem, and together the poems tell the story of a bi-racial, blended family overcoming the trials and tribulations of learning to live and love together. To Xavier, the house feels too small, the love not enough for two, and just about everything Chris does, Xavier sees as ill-intentioned or competitive.

When the brothers work things out and find joy in each other, my 5-year-old daughter in my lap was full of happiness and bounce.

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The pictures are energetic, expressive and colorful, and more than match the text — they give it life and whimsy. Dead center in the fish-eye lens on the cover of this fantastic visual voyage floats another lens centered in the face of an old-fashioned brownie-style box camera. Find Flotsam at your local library. Campbell Geeslin , illustrated by: Ana Juan - Atheneum, 40 pages. When she heads to Monterrey, where all the great glass-blowers live and work, disguised as a boy, she learns the depth of her own talent.

Gail Page - Bloomsbury Children's Books, 32 pages. Bobo was usually a good dog and got lots of treats, but when he was a bad dog, he was sent to his doghouse. When even the cat began to miss him, the cat teaches Bobo how to be a good dog. Find How to Be a Good Dog at your local library. Craig Dorfman , illustrated by: A sweetly written nostalgic book. Singsong rhyming verse combined with the familiar blue engine helps us remember that anything is possible if you persevere. Younger children may need help understanding the greater meanings behind each rhyming verse.

This book encourages children to believe in themselves. Find I Knew You Could at your local library. Johnny Gruelle , illustrated by: In this Raggedy Ann and Andy adventure, all their animal friends try to help retrieve the magic wishing pebble that has been stolen by a trickster named Minky.

Opens discussions about what wishes are important.

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Cari Best , illustrated by: Sophie Blackall - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 32 pages. This sly reversal of the typical older-sibling-jealous-of-the-new-baby picture book tells the story of Rosemary Emma Angela Lynette Isabel Iris Malone, so-saddled because every relative in the extended family took a hand in the naming.

Eleanor Estes , illustrated by: Is it ever too early to teach compassion? When the children learn the truth, they are given the chance for self-reflection.

Notable Children's Books - 2018

The lessons learned here will last your child a lifetime. Find The Hundred Dresses at your local library. Seuss , illustrated by: LeSieg Geisel backwards — a charming pen name Dr. Seuss used when he did not illustrate a title , this funny book is a charmer. Now I grin from ear to ear when my first-grader reads it to me.

Virginia Lee Burton - Houghton Mifflin, 40 pages. Seen by some as a commentary on urbanization, this beautifully and simply illustrated book won the prestigious Caldecott Medal in Find The Little House at your local library. Colin and Jacqui Hawkins - Candlewick Press, 40 pages. Oonagh comes to the rescue and with the help of a fairy charm she tricks Cucullin into deciding that Fin is one giant better left alone. Find Fairytale News at your local library. John Light , illustrated by: Lisa Evans - Child's Play International, 32 pages.

Brigg lives in a city of the future where the landscape is all cement, kept clean by giant vacuum systems so that even a mug-full of dust is hard to collect. One day he discovers an image in a book that speaks to his heart: The Flower has a subtlety that intrigues both older and younger children who totally get it. And they draw lots of them after reading this book, so have some paper and crayons handy!

Find The Flower at your local library. Stu Smith , illustrated by: This fractured tale is about a girl who does not like the rules at home and decides to move to another planet. Children relate to the story line of things not always being pleasant and the occasional desire to escape. Find Goldilocks and the Three Martians at your local library. Two woolly mammoths are having trouble adjusting to the warmth, until they come upon the perfect solution, starting a new fashion trend — short hair.

Find Hot Hot Hot at your local library. Jean Richards , illustrated by: Norman Gorbaty - Henry Holt, 32 pages. Little Elephant is so curious she just has to know what the crocodile eats for dinner. A tug of war stretches her snub-nose into a useful trunk that all elephants have to this day, or so the story goes.

Melinda Long , illustrated by: David Shannon - Harcourt Children's Books, 32 pages. Are you looking for a sea adventure? At first life seems great for Jeremy when he joins Braid Beard and his rambunctious crew. No manners, no bedtime and no nagging to brush your teeth make life on board ship very appealing. Find How I Became a Pirate at your local library.

The wolf gets bigger with each piece of clothing he puts on. The animals do play in the forest all the way through the book. Rueda includes notes explaining the origins of the song traditional French and Spanish , as well as the musical notation. Judy Sierra , illustrated by: Otto Seibold - Knopf, 40 pages. For years, the Big Bad Wolf B. Wolf has been living at Villain Villa Senior Center in comfort, receiving nothing in the mail but bills. One day, he gets an invitation to the Annual Storybook Tea at the library.

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Wolf, who until this point has never thought out his actions, is at a loss about what to do. Should he go to the tea, or not? After consulting with his good friend Crocodile, he decides to go, but not without taking the necessary precautions. Wolf is a sure hit with children and parents alike. Make sure to pay attention to the pictures, as they are chock full of silliness! Find Mind Your Manners, B.

Wolf at your local library. Marsha Diane Arnold , illustrated by: She leaves Mamoo and the herd, too to hoof it as a square dancer, Rockette, and ballerina, always sending messages home. Find Prancing, Dancing Lily at your local library. It all starts around 8 p. Almost totally wordless, Tuesday takes us into a magical, funny and flighty experience.

The frogs start their flights of fancy in a three-panel page that shows them sleeping. Then one is surprised by his floating-into-the-air-lily pad, while the rest watch him in delight. A turtle on a log notices something above him. Turn the page, and the frogs are calmly flying by on their magic lily pad carpets! Look for startled fish and harassed birds!

Find Tuesday at your local library. Megan McDonald , illustrated by: Have you ever wondered what happens when everyone goes home and the library lights go out? Come join the adventure of Lion and Rabbit when they realize their friend, Hermit Crab, is missing. Could he have been taken by a mighty giant? Will a map of the library help the friends find Hermit Crab? Come along with Lion and Rabbit to find out for yourself! This is a great introduction to the world of mysteries for a proficient beginning reader.

In each of these four chapters, Aunt Eater delights in solving mysteries for her friends. Fun illustrations throughout help provide the clues. Find Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery at your local library. David Small - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 40 pages. Coddled cows upstairs, pigs running the household and lecturing sheep — is it any wonder that George Washington fled home to brave frosty Delaware?

Well, the only things around on the farm with feathers are chickens! And so it goes that Minnie and Moo disguise themselves as chickens to get that jelly donut back. Guana is on the case. Could that chameleon in the dress on stage be Leon? The Case of the Missing Chameleon at your local library. The Young Cam Jansen Series is another excellent beginning book series. This series features Cam, a young detective whose real name is Jennifer.

She gets her nickname, Cam, because she has a photographic memory, like a camera. Will Cam be able to use her photographic memory to help solve this mystery? Vaunda Nelson , illustrated by: Colin Bootman - Carolrhoda Books, 40 pages. This is a moving story set on a plantation in antebellum Virginia.

The book deals directly with many of the hardships endured by enslaved African American people in the pre-Civil War South, from verbal and physical abuse by the owners and overseers of the plantation to the terrors of time spent on the dangerous Underground Railway. For children old enough to comprehend some aspects of the historical setting and political situation in the story, this is an emotionally rewarding and ultimately optimistic story.

Essentials

Find Almost to Freedom at your local library. On January 1st, a family is surprised by a delivery: Find Penguins at your local library. Lola loves snow so much it is her favorite and her best, after all that she wants it to never melt. Do snow angels sing? Where do snowmen sleep? Luckily for him, his big sister Stella has a seemingly endless supply of imaginative answers.

Find Stella, Queen of the Snow at your local library. Jean Fritz , illustrated by: Trina Hyman - Penguin Putnam, 48 pages. Schaefer , illustrated by: Frankie Stein is a cute baby, but his parents fear he will never be as scary as they are — until they learn to see him for the unique Stein that he is in this humorous story. Find Frankie Stein at your local library. Sandra Horning , illustrated by: Owen sends Granny a hug. Nevin at the Post Office, who hugs Mrs.

Porter, who hugs someone else … all the way to Granny. The humor associated with each hug passing appeals immensely to children. Find The Giant Hug at your local library. Buzz meets a fly that can say his name and decides it should be his pet. Trying to convince his parents and the judges at a pet contest is another story. Fly Guy at your local library. Comic-style pictures and uproarious text keep kids interested. Is it possible for a few words and squiggles to convey both humor and emotion?

Jules Feiffer does the impossible! Find I Lost My Bear at your local library. Ambivalent emotions, perfectly depicted. Alan Katz , illustrated by: Edward Koren - Margaret K. McElderry, pages. If you have a fan of humorous verse in the vein of Jack Prelutsky or Shel Silverstein, crack open Oops! He writes poetry based on the wild antics of his four children. Topics such as leaving fingerprints, fighting with siblings, waiting for the school bus and more fill the pages.

Unexpected and beautifully illustrated, this book is a sure delight. Find Sally and the Some-Thing at your local library. Barbara Odanaka , illustrated by: This book opens simply enough, with two piglets waking up to the pre-dawn sounds of the garbage men making their rounds. There Goes the Trash! Karla Kuskin , illustrated by: The private lives of cats are explored in this question-and-answer exchange between a precocious young boy and an extremely smart cat. Helen Lester , illustrated by: Lynn Munsinger - Houghton Mifflin, 32 pages. Everyone is penguin-crazy these days.

Who can resist these lovable winter birds? Tacky and his friends have been around since and, in this newest volume, form Team Nice Icy Land to compete in the Winter Games. Tacky learns that being on a team takes hard work and dedication. The challenge here is to keep from laughing out loud with your child at the silly antics of Tacky and his friends. Hilarious and raucous fun. This is my new favorite bedtime or naptime book for babies and toddlers. Each page has a little action: Press again to light up the sky. Meanwhile, as actions and words take you from page to page, the sky behind the illustrations goes red, then aqua, then blue, then darker, and stars come out including Big and Little Dippers and a comet , then "Close your eyes and breathe in deeply.

Where does the Moon go after it wanes? A rhyming story reassures toddlers that "when it goes away, it will always return. The light doesn't do anything inside the book, only on the cover. So I fear "reading" sessions where the baby insists on shutting the book to press the button on the cover. This is not an issue for babies' appreciation of the book but may annoy Moon-obsessed parents.

A parable about a would-be astronaut discovering the inner strength to overcome his fear of the monsters that hide in the dark, and discovering that the dark also harbors dreams. It's funny, heartfelt, and awe-inspiring, and a terrific book to read aloud. A delightful book to read aloud to children who are thrilled by the sound of immense numbers, like ten quadrillion the number of ants living on Earth, which together weigh the same as the seven billion five hundred million humans on Earth, according to Fishman.

It's illustrated in a deceptively simple, colorful style that's easy to see from a distance -- a perfect library read-aloud book. Don't miss the author's note at the end, in which he explains a little bit about estimating such large, round numbers. Yet another delightful read-aloud book. An astronaut goes to Mars to search for life. He or she it's narrated in the first person, so not specified even brought cupcakes to share. But everywhere they look, they can't find life.

The kids to whom you're reading the book will yell and shout at point at the enormous curious orange alien that the astronaut is missing! It's silly fun but, for those of us engaged in the search for life elsewhere, it's an important point that we can only find life where we look for it. And sick is extra-terrestrial bad when you have two throats, five ears, and three noses. Read this book aloud to a pathetically congested child to make her smile! I knew Grace Hopper was an icon before reading this book, but Queen of Computer Code has turned me into a superfan.

The book intermingles biographical storytelling with Hopper quotes that are simultaneously inspirational and funny. We learn about Hopper being an engineer from childhood disassembling alarm clocks and building a motorized elevator for her dollhouse , and about her persistence in being allowed into the Navy despite her advanced age 36 and spindliness. Margaret and the Moon is one of those wonderful books that presents as a picture book for young children but which has plenty to teach older readers. It's a succinct biography of the pioneering software engineer whose code enabled the success of the lunar landings.

Along the way, it even manages to deliver terse summaries of different branches of mathematics. She liked measuring circles and triangles in geometry. She liked studying curves in calculus. But nearly every book about Apollo 11 makes the reverse omission, and I'm happy to see Hamilton get her day.

A central issue with books for kids about early NASA spaceflight is that all the people who actually got to go to space were white men. Feature Katherine Johnson and Margaret Hamilton's contributions all you want, but there have only ever been men on the Moon. Serena Sees Her Footprints on the Moon circumvents this problem straightforwardly, through the power of imagination: Hers are the first footprints there!

She goes where no astronaut has ever been. A solid ha introduction to Earth as a planet, with geology facts written in age-appropriate language. Reading through it I marveled at how well Dickmann has encapsulated important geology concepts in simple language, avoiding unnecessary jargon, while not sacrificing accuracy. The water gets colder, too. The huge weight of the water above presses down.

Where does the Sun go at night? Many kindergarten classrooms celebrate the th day of school with activities designed to teach children about the quantity of This book, a sequel to the engaging Planet Kindergarten , features a story about a th-day-of-school space mission that almost goes very wrong, but teamwork saves the day.

Shane Prigmore's illustrations are full of fun details that will entice a new reader to explore the pages. One of the better books on constellations for children that I've seen, Exploring Constellations includes both southern and northern skies. Rather than listing one constellation per page, it describes constellations grouped by the seasons during which they're up after dark, which is, I think, a more accessible way to learn to find them.

Another nice feature of this and other books in the series is that bold-faced vocabulary receives glossary definitions on the same page that the term is introduced as well as in the back. Snap out the cardboard parts and build your own interactive book of space machines! It's sort of like a pop-up book, except that the reader assembles the bits to make illustrations that move with levers and gears. Town Is by the Sea. A young girl shows great courage as she takes on adult tasks and waits for her mother to come home from the factory.

When a Wolf Is Hungry. Dapper wolf Edmond Bigsnout attempts to eat a fellow city-dwelling rabbit but is thwarted at every turn by the bunny and his neighbors. A child clamors to know the answer to the most important question of all in this cheerful celebration of self. On a walk through the neighborhood, a child invites readers to imagine what might be happening behind the windows he passes every day.

Wolf in the Snow. In this wordless picture book, a girl and a wolf pup, both lost in a snowstorm, need help from each other to find their way home. Cause and effect is explored in this imaginative and unexpected tale of a rose, a cat, a gardener, and a broken heart. The Birmingham protest was successfully accomplished by youth. The youngest, nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks, proved that even the smallest voice makes a difference.

While navigating the challenges of poverty in rural China in the s, a mute boy named Bronze and an orphan named Sunflower develop a powerful friendship. Readers to Eaters Graffiti-inspired illustrations bring to life the story of food-truck and fresh-food-movement pioneer Chef Roy Choi. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground.

Clayton idolizes his grandfather and mentor, blues legend Cool Papa Byrd. When Cool Papa dies, Clayton adventures underground and emerges with a true blues voice. In this gentle, honest tale of immigrant survival, a young Vietnamese American boy and his father go on an early morning fishing trip.

How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild. Expressive and immersive illustrations invite readers to witness the miracle of a newborn elephant learning how to walk, smell, communicate, and eat. Asteroids and the Science of Saving the World. Readers meet the scientists who study asteroids past and present and work to protect our planet in the future. The inspiring life story of Miriam Makeba, an activist and singer best known as Mama Africa, is illustrated with art as vibrant as the woman herself.

A Wild but True History of Earth. By Don Brown and Mike Perfit. Packed with 14 billion years of history, this slim and entertaining science comic explains the formation of our planet, from the big bang to the present day. Princess Cora and the Crocodile. By Laura Amy Schlitz. The Case of R. The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem. Newman invites readers into a modern science mystery: Feiwel and Friends Red, a quiet wishing tree, is the recipient of neighborhood hopes and dreams.

When an immigrant family is harassed in the community, Red is motivated to act. Two sisters set off without adults on an impromptu road trip to scatter their mother's ashes in this moving, sensitive novel. In a stunningly beautiful novel, orphan Crow decides to investigate her own past and in doing so uncovers the complicated history of a nearby former leper colony. World War I and the Art of Confusion. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora.

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