The Relatives Came -- by Cynthia Rylant (Author) (Book - Child)
"In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden...
All Ages
Age groups: Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5)
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home -- by Susan Bauer, Jessie Wise (Authors) (Book - Parent)
"Wise, a former teacher and current home education consultant, explains that she decided to home-school her three children because the local public school "was a terrible environment socially" and...
All Ages
Age groups: Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
M and M and the Haunted House Game -- by Pat Ross (Author) (Book - Child)
"Mini and Marty, neighbors and friends, play a game that backfires." From Choosing Books for Kids
All Ages
Age groups: Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
When Will I Read? -- by Miriam Cohen (Author) (Book - Child)
"Jim had waited all his life. But still he could not read. "It will happen, " said the teacher. "It will happen when you are ready." But Jim was ready now. Some of the children in the class could...
All Ages
Age groups: Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
Hansel and Gretel -- by Charles Scribner (Author) (Book - Child)
"When they are left in the woods by their parents, two children find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
The Bionic Bunny Show -- by Marc Brown (Author) (Book - Child)
"As an ordinary rabbit in real life portrayed as a bionic bunny on his television series, the reader views all the produciton efforts that provide that illusion." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
What Do People Do All Day? -- by Richard Scarry (Author) (Book - Child)
"Fewer labels but tons of pictorial information about work, workers, and the tools they use all set in short-story format. Scarry breaks down complex processes into child-size bites of information." ...
All Ages
Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum -- by Allan Ahlberg (Author) (Book - Child)
"Simple text and illustrations demonstrate in brief vignettes such concepts as cause and effect, adding, parts of a whole, opposites, and the meaning of words." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
Hailstones and Halibut Bones -- by Mary O'Neill (Author) (Book - Child)
"Since it's original publication in 1961, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, Mary O'Neill's renowned work of poetry about the colors of the spectrum, has become modern children's classic. This new edition,...
All Ages
Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
My Father's Dragon -- by Ruth Gannett (Author) (Book - Child)
"My Father's Dragon--a favorite of young readers since the 1940s and a Newbery honor book--captures the nonsensical logic of childhood in an amusingly deadpan fashion. The story begins when Elmer...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)