This touching tale takes readers into the woods with a child’s hopes of finding a deer in the woods for the first time. He leaves the house on his adventure but is finding more than just a deer. He plays in the sand, a sailboat, and in the marsh grasses along the way to the woods. He found an egret and more around the water’s edge but no deer. Over the hill he came across some construction workers, who would have scared the deer away so dad walked further into the woods and the adventure continued into conservation land and wildflowers. He found some blueberries and listened to dad tell about seeing a silver fox in the meadow on the land. There were still no deer to be seen, so the journey continued. This father and son team meandered through the woods to find a deer, but along the way they learned a lot more. (picture from Amazon.com)
A historical fiction story of one boy’s hard work to get the book he really wants to read from the book boat that comes along the Erie Canal to his community each week, is what this book is about. It has very colorful photos of a young man hoping to buy The Swiss Family Robinson book from the boat, but he doesn't have enough money. This story is set in the 1800’s and after the Erie Canal was opened, these floating libraries brought books to communities that were miles from real towns. This boy found odd jobs to get his book and he worked hard. He was so hopeful, only to find the book had been sold the day before he made it back to the boat. So he had to find a solution or pick another book and this story shows what can happen after you work hard for something you really want, it makes you feel like you have really accomplished something when you achieve your goal. This book can begin a historical lesson about how things like building the Erie Canal did change the world. (picture from Amazon.com)
Fleischman, P. (2013). The matchbox diary. Massachusetts: Candlewick Press.
This sweet historical fiction story is about a grandfather reading to his child. She picks a book and he reads to her, but this time she picks a box – a cigar box. In the box is a bunch of little boxes matchboxes and in each of those is a memory that the grandfather kept during his time coming to America, so he would remember his homeland of Italy. In one box, there was an olive pit, so he would remember the olives that grow all around his own grand mother’s home. This is a sweet, sweet tale of how to remember your youth and inspiring story to make readers want to make a memory. This book showed and interesting way to keep things that help us remember important times in our lives. (picture from Amazon.com)
Kann, E. (2013) Emeraldalicious. New York: Harper Collins Books.
This series of books attracts the extravagant girlies all over the world. If you like color this is color sparkles and a magic book that tells the story of how to make the world a beautiful place. Pinkalicious takes her brother Peter, to the park to play with their wand, they find things that just don’t belong in the park and figure out a way to clean it up. They make a magic wand that suddenly has power. It makes a throne of the trash and they make a shawl of flowers. Peter waved the wand and suddenly flowers bloomed around the trash. They recycled all the trash into useful things to play with, this then turned the park into the Emeraldalicious Garden for them to play in. (picture from Amazon.com)
Kennedy, C. (2013). Poems to learn by heart. New York: Disney Hyperion Books.
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Konnecke, O. (2013). Anton and the battle. MN: Gecko Press.
Langreuter J. & Dahle, S. (2013). There’s no one I love like you. New York: North South Books.
Brayden Bunny is not happy with all the rules around his home, so he treks out on his own and does he really want to be free? Would you leave all your love to get away from a few rules? Brayden says who needs it and takes off to find fun. But after a trying out friend after friend’s life, he notices some important parts missing. Would you be as brave as Brayden Bunny? Read this one to find out what is really important to Brayden or does he get lost in the adventure.
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Markle, M. (2013). Brave girl, Clara and the shirtwaist makers’ strike of 1909. New York: Harper Collins Children’s Books.
This is a wonderful history lesson for students studying strong women of America or immigrants and the changes they encountered. This book outlines an important historical moment for women and for America’s industrial times. In this story Clara, tells us how the women feel and how the men thought they were not strong enough to form a union and yet they did and rose above the harsh laws for women working in the shirt factories. She discusses how men felt women were not smart enough, how she urged girls to fight for their rights. When she forms a picket line, she was fired, and arrested over 17 times, and beat up with broken ribs, from time to time but she did not break her spirit. She still fought for her rights and led a huge strike when she spoke to the women in Yiddish. Suddenly everyone was on strike to change the laws for women in factories everywhere. This book teaches the lesson of stand up for what is right and keep trying. (picture from Amazon.com)
Rosenthal, A.& Lichteneheld, T.(2013). Exclamation Mark. New York: Scholastic Press.
Staake, B. (2013). Bluebird. New York: Random House.
This sweet wordless story is told by Bob Staake who is a famous illustrator. His story is of a little boy who is befriended by a sweet little blue bird one day. The bird follows the boy home from school and along the way they find a snack, a sign and a park. They soon run into some bullies to try to take a sail boat away from the boy, and the Blue bird intervenes, and when the mean boy throws a stick, it hits the sweet blue bird. Now the little boy is sad he has lost his friend and picks up the blue bird to try to save it, as he does this all other color of birds come and pick up the boy and allow him to place the bluebird into heaven where he belongs. This book teaches children to be kind to one another. (picture from Amazon.com)Willems, M.(2013). A big guy took my ball! New York: Hyperion Books.
A small pig reports to a big elephant that the big guy took her ball. But even though, Gerald the elephant says that’s not right, a really big guy feels differently. This quaint quick tale helps us learn that being bigger isn't always better. You would have to learn why. This story will help readers adjust to sight words and cute characters that they can relate to because everyone has felt small once in their life. This story helps us relate to others and learn to be kind with any size of person even if we may be scared of them.
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Willems, M. (2013). That is not a good idea. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
A travesty has happened in this quick snappy book of warnings. The fox issues a challenge to the duck to go along with his plan and take a little walk, while the ducklings issue stern warnings about things that are NOT a good idea. The duck seems to be on her own mission and follows the sweet looking Fox into the forest and home to make some soup? This of course, makes the ducklings are all atwitter, about the recklessness of the duck. But by the end, the key ingredient of the soup has a great twist much to the ducklings’ amazement. Read this sweet story to share with friend’s to hear the great warnings and see if you can imply what could go wrong, but it is great to have a twist at the end of any story to entertain your readers too. (picture from Amazon.com)
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