Picture Books

Seasonal Books:

Otter Loves Halloween! - Sam Garton

Halloween is Otter's favorite holiday. It's also a very busy time for her and Teddy. With so much to do, it's a good thing she's a Halloween expert!

 

From Apple Tree to Cider, Please! - Felicia Sanzari Chernesky

"Grab the wagon, it's a bright autumn day and the trees are full of ripe, red apples! There's an apple festival underway at the farm and lots of work to do making cider. This visit finishes with a cider doughnut and a cup of freshly pressed cider. DELICIOUS! Told in crisp, action-driven rhymes from a young child's point of view, From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! is a realistic account of how apple cider is pressed, flavored with the charm and vigor of a harvest celebration.-- Provided by the publisher

 

Picture Books:

Rory the Dinosaur: Me and My Dad - Liz Climo
Rory lives with his father on an island and one day, when his father needs some quiet time, Rory decides to go on an adventure by himself for the first time, unaware that his father's following behind to help.

If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't! - Elise Parsley
A child provides insights, based on personal experience, into everything that can go wrong if one brings an alligator to school for show-and-tell.

Board Book:

Red Light, Green Light - Yumi Heo
This board book features 10 lift-the flap traffic signs.

Teacher Resources

The Day the Crayons Quit: A Guide for the Book - Drew Daywalt
Explore the fun and quirky ways in which the crayons quit with this instructional guide for literature. Students will love analyzing the crayons' struggles and complaints by completing age-appropriate, rigorous yet fun activities and lessons provided in this guide. Readers will enjoy figuring out how Duncan convinces his crayons to come back to work. Analyzing story elements in multiple ways, close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are just a few of the many skills students will walk away with after interacting with the rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities in this resource. Written to support this playful, well-known book, each activity and lesson work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend literature while using their imagination.

Books in Bloom: Discovering the Plant Biology in Great Children's Literature
- Valerie Bang-Jensen and Mark Lubkowitz
Books in Bloom invites children to learn about science while experiencing a great story. Each chapter features an outstanding children's book that is grounded in plant biology and provides engaging activities and lesson plans related to curricular standards. Books in Bloom provides an opportunity for everyone who reads and gardens with children to teach science through literature.

The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature: The World's Greatest Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals
Young people's literature through the ages is given new life by the best comics artists and illustrators. Fairy tales, fables, fantastical adventures, young adult novels, swashbuckling yarns, your favorite stories from childhood and your teenage years are adapted as short graphic stories. They're all here, in all their original complexity and strangeness, before they were censored or sanitized (including Red Riding Hood drinking her grandmother's blood).

Nonfiction

Elementary Grades
Your Healthy Body series (grades K-3):

Eat a Balanced Diet!

Get a  Good Night's Sleep!

Exercise!

Practice Good Hygiene!

Visit the Dentist!

Visit the Doctor!


Brands We Know series (grades 3-6) 

Disney

Hershey's

Kellogg's

LEGO

McDonald's

Nike

 

 Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla - Katherine Applegate
"The true story of Ivan, known as the Shopping Mall Gorilla, who lived alone in a small cage for almost 30 years before being relocated to the gorilla habitat at ZooAtlanta."-- Provided by publisher

Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust - Loïc Dauvillier.
"A grandmother shares the story of her experiences in WWII with her grandchild in this graphic novel for young readers."-- Provided by publisher


The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale - Nathan Hale
Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north without being caught or killed, she'd be free. Facing enormous danger, Araminta made it, and once free, she changed her name to Harriet Tubman. Tubman spent the rest of her life helping slaves run away like she did, every time taking her life in her hands.

When the Slave Esperanca Garcia Wrote a Letter - Sonia Rosa
 Translation of: Quando a escrava Esperança Garcia escreveu uma carta. Esperanca Garcia, a literate slave, was moved from a Jesuit cotton farm in Brazil to be a cook, away from her husband and some of her children and wrote a letter to the governor asking to be returned to the cotton farm.

Bird and Diz - Ed Young
Presents a rhythmic tribute to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and their creation of bebop.



Grades 5-8

Everything World War I - Karen L. Kenney
A one hundredth anniversary tribute introduces World War I's key events, major battles, and most prominent players, incorporating informative photography, maps, and an interactive glossary.



How to Babysit a Leopard: And Other True Stories From Our Travels Across Six Continents
- Ted and Betsy Lewin
From Africa to Asia Pacific, from Europe to the United States of America, acclaimed authors/illustrators Ted and Betsy Lewin have roamed the earth taking on snakes, tracking mountain gorillas, and generally trying to avoid being eaten by various jungle creatures. Packed with pencil drawings, full-color illustrations, and captivating photographs, there is not a single dull moment as Ted and Betsy take the reader through their dramatic, funny, and often poignant stories...all true!"
-- Provided by publisher