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I am a teacher, so I have to find books that are engaging enough for the kids to stay interested for long periods of reading time. Also, I have 11 kids and 19 grandkids (and still countingā¦) so we spend a lot of time reading at my house. The books on my list are the ones that the kids wait in line for and have a waiting list to get to have their turn with it.Ā Sometimes I just have 5 copies of the ones everyone loves. Simple mysteries are my favorite.
I love that this book makes you feel like you are right there getting to know the characters. The author does a great job describing their actions and personalities and makes you fall in love with them. Even though this is a book for kids, as an adult, I wanted to finish reading it after I had read the first page. It is hilarious in a fun, not silly, way.
Newbery Medalāwinning author Beverly Cleary expertly depicts the trials and triumphs of growing up through a relatable heroine who isn't afraid to be exactly who she is.
Ramona Quimby is excited to start kindergarten. No longer does she have to watch her older sister, Beezus, ride the bus to school with all the big kids. She's finally old enough to do it too!
Then she gets into trouble for pulling her classmate's boingy curls during recess. Even worse, her crush rejects her in front of everyone. Beezus says Ramona needs to quit being a pest, but how can she stopā¦
In 1894, Annie Cohen Kopchovsky set out to ride her bicycle. Not to the market. Not around the block. Not across town. Annie was going to ride her bike all the way around the worldābecause two men bet no woman could do it. Ha!
This picture book, with watercolor illustrationsā¦
I am a teacher, so I have to find books that are engaging enough for the kids to stay interested for long periods of reading time. Also, I have 11 kids and 19 grandkids (and still countingā¦) so we spend a lot of time reading at my house. The books on my list are the ones that the kids wait in line for and have a waiting list to get to have their turn with it.Ā Sometimes I just have 5 copies of the ones everyone loves. Simple mysteries are my favorite.
This is a book series that poses mysteries that are short and fun to solve. The answers are not insultingly easy, nor are they so hard or obscure that kids canāt solve them. The main character is very likable and is described in a way that makes you feel like he is a kid you would want to be friends with.
I am a teacher, so I have to find books that are engaging enough for the kids to stay interested for long periods of reading time. Also, I have 11 kids and 19 grandkids (and still countingā¦) so we spend a lot of time reading at my house. The books on my list are the ones that the kids wait in line for and have a waiting list to get to have their turn with it.Ā Sometimes I just have 5 copies of the ones everyone loves. Simple mysteries are my favorite.
Mercer Mayer writes books for kids that are so funny that I seek them out and read them when I donāt even have any kids with me. His pictures do a great job of showing the sarcasm of the story. For instance, there is a page where the child is explaining how he does his chores. He says, āI didnāt forget to water the plants, but they looked fine to me.āĀ
The picture has a very droopy-looking plant. On almost every page, there are funny side critters to watch for, like a Whereās Waldo find. Heās a great author and illustrator.
Mercer Mayerās Little Critter is having a very forgetful day in this classic, funny, and heartwarming book. Whether heās forgetting his lunchbox, forgetting to put on his rain boots, or forgetting to turn off the water, both parents and children alike will relate to this beloved story. A perfect way to teach children about responsibility!
The summer holidays have finally arrived and Scout canāt wait for her adventure in the big rig with Dad. Theyāre on a mission to deliver donations of dog food to animal rescue shelters right across the state. Thereāll be dad-jokes, rock-collecting, and a brilliant plan that will make sure everyoneāsā¦
I am a teacher, so I have to find books that are engaging enough for the kids to stay interested for long periods of reading time. Also, I have 11 kids and 19 grandkids (and still countingā¦) so we spend a lot of time reading at my house. The books on my list are the ones that the kids wait in line for and have a waiting list to get to have their turn with it.Ā Sometimes I just have 5 copies of the ones everyone loves. Simple mysteries are my favorite.
This is a book that teaches a lesson in a way that makes you laugh even when you have read it over and over. I like that the kids in the story donāt figure out the mystery, but the pictures help the reader to solve it. Funny pictures and a funny telling of a great story.
The classic, hilarious story of a misbehaving class, their sweet teacher, and the legendary substitute teacher who restores order in their chaotic classroom.
Miss Nelson's class always acts upāespecially when their teacher is absent from school! But after a week with their strict substitute, Viola Swamp, the kids can't wait for Miss Nelson to come back.
Full of tongue-in-cheek humor and James Marshallās simply silly illustrations, this is the ultimate back-to-school book or teacher gift: Accept no substitute!
Plus don't miss the companion books: Miss Nelson Is Back and Miss Nelson Has a Field Day!
I have lived in North Norfolk for more than thirty years and grown to love its creeks, dunes, crumbling cliffs, and atmospheric church towers. Iāve spent years working in a shed in the garden of my remote flint cottage (originally built as a hovel), writing features for national newspapers and magazines. Iāve visited grand old mansions with eccentric aristocratic owners; become familiar with the setting for L.P. Harleyās The Go-Between; been fascinated by the steam trains and railways that once linked ocean and fen; listened to skeins of geese flying overhead each winter; and been transported by the spiritual dimension in the vast horizontals of land, sea, and sky.
All the wonders of the thousands of geese that fly through the winter across the enormous Norfolk skies, baggy fields, and marshes are here.
Acheson spent lockdown cycling furiously along the coast on his motherās old red pushbike following the pinkfeet and many other species of geese, describing his great love affair with them.
On his epic journey, he talks to ecologists, farmers, birders, and scientists. He writes with an encyclopaedic knowledge, uncontrolled passion, and great vulnerability.
WINNER - BOOK OF THE YEAR - East Anglian Book Awards 2023
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As seen on BBC Winterwatch 2023
'Honest, human and heart-grabbing. I loved this book so much.' Sophie Pavelle, author of Forget Me Not
'Delightful' Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds that Changed the World
'Fascinating and thought-provoking' Jake Fiennes, author of Land Healer
'Awe-filled and absorbing' Nicola Chester, author of On Gallows Down
The Meaning of Geese is a book of thrilling encounters with wildlife, of tired legs, punctured tyres and inhospitable weather. Above all, it is the storyā¦
I am adopted. I am a birth mother and also a mother through adoption. I have lived through all āthree facesā of adoption and know how each āfaceā affects millions of people's lives all over the world. I am passionate that conversations around adoption need to come out of the closet and the secrecy surrounding the subject must disappear. By writing my books, I am on a mission to support adoptees, birth mothers, and adoptive parents and help them realise they are not alone. After publication of my first book in the Survival Without Roots trilogy, I am humbled that people are reaching out to say that reading Book One has helped them so much.Ā Ā
This book kickstarts a conversation around adoption at a childās level. Whether adopted or not, the child will begin to ask questions and find out more after listening to/reading this book. Written around two characters ā a duck and a goose ā it is invaluable for parents, teachers, and children. Professionals working in the field of adoption will find this book a useful resource as it deals with many difficult and emotive āadoptionā questions through the power of a story and beautiful illustrations too.
This listing is for the original award-winning edition of Delly Duck, featuring one duckling. For twins/sibling groups, please click on the author's name or series title, and select the "Sibling Group Edition."
Created by Holly Marlow (adoptive and biological parent, and author of Room in the Nest, Adopting a Little Brother or Sister, So You've Adopted a Siblingand Cousins by Adoption) and her sister, Suzy Garland.
When Delly Duck lays an egg, she is excited for it to hatch. But she doesnāt really know how to keep an egg safe, or how to look after her chick when he hatches.ā¦
Eleven-year-old Sierra just wants a normal life. After her military mother returns from the war overseas, the two hop from home to homelessness while Sierra tries to help her mom through the throes of PTSD.
I think of myself as a listener and life in progress. As a poet and author, Iām always listening to the words that move through my heart. Iām also a spiritual seeker, always looking for the Divine in the world around me and almost always surprised by the ways it shows up when Iām paying attention. Yet, thereās another part of me that is a Jersey girl through and through, looking for humor or irreverence in the face of lifeās challenges. All these aspects come together in an unusual harmony, creating an openness to being changed by the things that come into my life. Hence, a list of life-changing books.
I have found so many of Mary Oliverās poems to be inspirational and thought-provoking that I could call any of Mary Oliverās poetry collections life-changing. Her ability to be present in nature, to hold both the beauty and the sorrow found in nature in a few lines of a poem and invite me as the reader to hold them both in my heart, is astounding.
Hearing her read āWhen I am Among the Treesā from this collection makes my heart sing! Listening to āAt the Pondā makes my heart ache for one small goose every time. One of my favorite lines from any of her poems, āSometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed,ā is found in this collection as well, in āIt Was Earlyā.Ā
I chose this one specifically because it is an audio recording rather than a book. There is something so heart-opening aboutā¦
Fairy tales were my first love but I didnāt discover the true magic of childrenās picture books until I left my 25-year career as an attorney to enter an MFA program. Wow, was I amazed. Picture booksābooks in which pictures tell an integral part of the storyānot only create an instant connection between reader and little listener but stay with us into adulthood as memories. With this insight, I dove into the genre to discover what distinguishes picture books that are read and reread from those that fade. The answer turns out to beātales that engender awe and wonder, yarns with heart, and narratives about friendship and kindness. Those are the stories that stay with us forever.
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bear and a goose are so different. Bear is quiet and firm. Goose is loud and
pushy. How could they possibly be friends? But thatās exactly what happens in
this bestselling tale of a bear who wants to read in peace and a goose that
needs a friend. Author-illustrator Suzanne Bloom captures the concept of making
and keeping friends with toddler-appropriate language and sparse but colorful
drawings. The simple text paired with hilarious illustrations make this book
one of my all-time favorite read-a-louds.Ā A Splendid Friend, IndeedĀ is, indeed, a sweet
reminder of why friendship and kindness matter.
Bear just wants to read and write and think while Goose wants to talk and talk and talk. Bear is getting increasingly frustrated as Goose keeps interrupting him. Then Goose announces that thinking makes him hungry and he needs to make a snack. Goose returns with the snack and a note that he reads to bear: "You are my splendid friend." Bear responds by giving Goose a bear hug. They are splendid friends, indeed.
Iām a full-time author and illustrator, and a recovering second grade teacher. I visit with tens of thousands of kids at schools every year and love sharing funny books with them. Iāve written and illustrated over 30 published books and know that kids appreciate subtle humor as well as in-your-face hilarity. I love writing stories that will make readers laugh and think. But mostly laugh.
This is probably the most perfect picture book. The illustrations are terrific ā full of detail and bold colors. The humor is spot-on and works on multiple levels. Kids will adore Bruceās cranky (but genuinely kind) attitude while adults laugh at the small asides that ring in a slightly more sophisticated way.Ā
Bruce the bear likes to keep to himself. That, and eat eggs. But when his hard-boiled goose eggs turn out to be real, live goslings, he starts to lose his appetite. And even worse, the goslings are convinced he's their mother. Bruce tries to get the geese to go south, but he can't seem to rid himself of his new companions. What's a bear to do?
Zeni lives in the Flint Hills of Southeast Kansas. This tale begins with her dream of befriending a miniature zebu calf coming true and follows Zeni as she works to befriend Zara. Enjoy full-color illustrations and a story filled with whimsy and plenty of opportunity for discussions around the perspectivesā¦
As a former teacher, and grandmother of 13 now-grownup kids, I canāt begin to count the total number of childrenās books Iāve read. A gazillion maybe? I have published 5 childrenās books of my own and have read them to hundreds of classes all over the U.S. I have been an editor of childrenās books for about 10 years and feel honored every time an author hands their precious manuscript over to me for assistance. Iāve read so, so many amazing books. It was difficult to name just a handful, but these books spoke to me, evoking emotions that stayed with me long after the last i was dotted and t was crossed. I hope you will feel that as well.
Children love to believe in make-believeāand I believe in letting them believe as long as possible. This book, with its rollicking humor, is one that children will want you to read over and over again. When a young girl wishes for a pet ostrich, she has no idea what sheās in for. Imagine trying to walk an ostrich on a leash or feed him 78 apples that get stuck in his long throat! This hilarious rhyming story, with illustrations that almost jump off the page, also has an ending you would never expect.
What happens when a spunky little girl wishes on a shooting star for a pet of her very own?
She wishes for a pet OSTRICH, of course!
Their wildly crazy and fun-filled feathery shenanigans will keep kids guessing what will happen next.
The LAUGH OUT LOUD surprise ending will bring a bad case of the giggles and will lead you to the character of book 2 - Do Not Wish for a Birthday Unicorn! COMING SOON!
From the Back Cover
Have you ever made a magical wish upon a shooting star?
