Review By HOMA WOODRUM I checked out this book based on Jessica’s suggestion as it was just featured as a 2012 Sydney Taylor Honor Book for Younger Readers. As is apparent from the title, Naamah and the Ark at Night, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Holly Meade, is a Noah’s Ark story [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Preschoolers'
The Whales’ Song
January 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Books
Review By LISA ONYKAHONIE This beautiful little story book is lovely to read aloud to young children. It’s about the relationship between Lilly, her grandmother, and the whales who appear at the ocean nearby, to sing their mysterious and haunting songs. Grumpy Great Uncle Fredrick reminds Lilly and her grandmother that whales were hunted for [...]
Tags:Activities·Dyan Sheldon·Early Elementary·Female Protagonist·Grandparents·Lisa Onykahonie·Marine Animals·Marine Mammals·Preschoolers·Whales·Whaling
From Trash to Treasure
January 23rd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN In the same vein as the Grow It Yourself! series, the six titles in the Trash to Treasure lineup make arts and crafts an easy, green practice for early elementary students and also challenge their reading skills. Books are broken up into their respective reuse material: cardboard, jars and pots, buttons [...]
Tags:Art·Carolyn M. Mullin·Craft Projects·Daniel Nunn·Early Elementary·Eco-Friendly Kids Books·Homeschooling·Preschoolers·Recycling·Trash
One More Acorn
January 21st, 2012 · 2 Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY In honor of Squirrel Appreciation Day, I thought it would be appropriate to review a book that my daughter received from some fellow squirrel enthusiasts entitled One More Acorn. The story follows a father grey squirrel in the late fall, as he searches for a buried acorn. People have descended upon Washington, D.C., [...]
Tags:Autumn·Civil Rights·Don Freeman·Early Elementary·Fall·Preschoolers·President Kennedy·Roy Freeman·Seasons·Squirrels·Urban Wildlife·Washington D.C.
All Kinds of Kisses
January 16th, 2012 · 8 Comments · Books
Review By HOMA WOODRUM Lavishly illustrated, All Kinds of Kisses by Caldecott Medalist Nancy Tafuri is a big and bright book that follows animal parents kissing their babies. The unifying narrative that is noteworthy for veg parents, however, is that the animals featured are all connected by living on the same farm, ending with the human mother [...]
Tags:Animal Families·Animals·Baby Book·Chickens·Farm·Farmed Animals·Farming·Good for Toddlers·Homa Woodrum·Illustration·Mother's Day·Mothers·Nancy Tafuri·Pigs·Preschoolers·Sheep
Go, Diego, Go!
January 14th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Movies
Review By JENNIFER KALI Dora’s cousin Diego is also an adventurer, but Diego is a boy with a mission. At the beginning of each episode, Diego announces, “Hi! I am Diego and I am an animal rescuer!” Then he goes on to exclaim, “I love animals!” With his team, made up of his sister Alicia and Click [...]
Tags:Adventure·Animal Rescue·Animal Welfare·Early Elementary·Good for Toddlers·Jennifer Kali·Preschoolers
City Life
January 10th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER KALI We love this book. We got it for our daughter (age 2.5) for Christmas and have read it many times since then. It’s the story of a little girl thinking about all of the fun she and her two moms are going to have in her neighborhood the next day. As she lays in [...]
Tags:Animals in Captivity·Cities·Good for Toddlers·J. Cecelia Haytko·Jeanelle Ferreira·Jennifer Kali·Preschoolers·Two-Mom Families·Urban·Urban Living·Wild Animals in Captivity·Zoos
Just a Second
December 31st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY I remember the long stretch of days when I was a kid, how summer seemed endless, and that we settled into games quickly enough to (nearly) finish them in twenty minutes of recess. Looking back, I think that time seemed different then, possibly because of my point of reference — only a few [...]
Tags:Animals·Birds·Early Elementary·Eco-Friendly Kids Books·Environment·Human Body·Illustration·Natural History·Nature Books·Preschoolers·Steve Jenkins
Tyrannosaurus Drip
December 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By LISA ONYKAHONIE Tyrannosaurus Drip is a lovely rhyming story with great illustrations for young children. It’s all about a vegetarian duckbill dinosaur called Drip who ends up being raised by a T Rex family, after his egg lands in their nest. The story is similar in many ways to the Ugly Duckling. Poor [...]
Tags:David Roberts·Dinosaurs·Illustration·Julia Donaldson·Lisa Onykahonie·Preschoolers·T Rex·Vegetarian Protagonist
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