Picture book lesson plans and activities for busy teachers
Looking for the best children’s books about inventions? These picture books about inventions for elementary students are engaging for primary and upper elementary kids. Books with lesson plans and activities linked. Fun and informative picture books about various topics like inventors, inventions, the invention of ideas, and more for your kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth or fifth grade students. Your… Read More
Totality by Jeffrey Bennett: A book about space written in verse that is immediately (or almost) relatable to kids? Carl Sagen would be proud! Jeffrey Bennett has done it again with another one of his children’s books about space! Totality Book Review The Text Much like Bennett’s other books he’s written with Big Kid Science like Max Goes to the… Read More
Twas the Night Before Christmas 2022 – It’s not very often that you get a revitalization of a 199 year old poem that uses the exact wording, spelling and punctuation of the original, but somehow Matt Tavares has done it. Tavares is beginning to make a tradition out of publishing a new Christmas book each year. He’s already published Red… Read More
Looking for the best Indigenous Peoples book to read to your kids? Here are some great books about Native Americans including children’s books by Indigenous authors. These children’s books about Indigenous peoples include both nonfiction own voices stories as well as historical fiction Native American books. Ideas for elementary school teachers looking for Indigenous Peoples Day children’s books with Native… Read More
Here is a To Change a Planet review for librarians, teachers and parents. One planet is all we have. Just one. A child is just one person. How can one child change a planet? When one molecule, carbon dioxide, threatens our one planet. It may seem like too much for one child to do much about. To Change a Planet… Read More
You’ve heard the Mother Goose nursery rhymes hundreds, if not thousands, of times. You’ve never heard the Mother Goose nursery rhymes like this. Jon Scieszka, the author who brought us the Caldecott Honor book The Stinky Cheese Man, continues his streak of tongue-in-cheek classic tales in what he refers to as “a Treasury of Complete Nonsense.” The Real Dada Mother… Read More