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WHAT DO TEACHERS DO (after YOU Leave School) ? -- Carolrhoda Books
What DO teachers do when the bell rings at three? Do they sit around reading the dictionary and giving each other pop quizzes? No way! While kids are at home doing their homework, teachers are busy goofing off at school all night long. They skate down the halls, start a food fight in the cafeteria, make up wild concoctions in the science lab, and more--- all with hilarious results. From The Critics The Horn Book Guide: |
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Great Math Tattle Battle --Albert Whitman Publisher
Harley Harrison is easily the best math student in second grade; he is also the biggest tattletale. Harley keeps track of how many erasers Erwin chews and how many milks too many Luis has at lunch. His math comes in handy as he totals up these weekly infractions and turns his reports in to his teacher. Then one Monday, Emma Jean, a new student, sits in the empty desk by Harley Harrison. First she helps Harley with his math-he cannot believe it! Then she writes the teacher a note about how much time Harley wastes getting drinks of water. She's also a tattletale! Soon they're using their math skills to tattle on each other every chance they get. Finally Harley and Emma Jean have to stop tattling long enough to work together on a math quiz and try to earn an extra ten minutes at recess for the next four days. Can they do it? From The Critics |
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I Loved You Before You Were Born -- HarperCollins Children's Books
"Even before you were born, I was your grandma and I loved you." A loving grandmother eagerly awaits the arrival of her grandchild. She dreams of the baby's soft sighs, sweet smells, and tiny toes, and imagines the infant smiling, rolling over, and crawling for the first time. Finally, the baby arrives and Grandma is ready with a very special message. Publishers Weekly Shed's (The Butterfly House) intimate, soft-focus oil portraits add a nostalgic quality to this sweet story of a grandmother recollecting the arrival of her grandchild. "Even before you were born, I was your grandma and I loved you," muses the narrator as if addressing the child directly. She then goes on to enumerate all the wonders of babyhood ("I imagined your soft sighs and sweet smells/ and your tiny toes lined up/ like pink pearls on a necklace") and times shared ("I imagined holding you close,/ rocking you,/ watching you make faces as you dreamed"). Her imaginings span a full year, through baby's first Christmas and birthday ("I saw you eating birthday cake, pink and yellow frosting finger painted across your face") and culminate with the infant's actual birth. Debut children's author Bowen captures the eagerness and anticipation attendant upon the birth of a new family member, and her poetic descriptions ("hands spread out, like little starfish"; "ribbons of autumn sunlight weaving through your hair") brim with sentimental tenderness. Shed's realistic portraits evoke the feeling of a family photo album, including close-ups of the fetching baby and various beaming family members. Just right for sharing on Grandma's lap. All ages. Order this book from Amazon |
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When You Visit Grandma and Grandpa -- Carolrhoda Books
A sister explains to her new baby brother the excitement and activities surrounding a trip to Grandma and Grandpa's house. A Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year Publishers Weekly Whatever the season, a girl tells her toddler brother, a visit to Grandma and Grandpa means, "You will have the best time ever!" Bowen's (I Loved You Before You Were Born) direct, heartfelt prose and Bogacki's (My First Garden) cozy compositions ensure this is no empty promise. Grandma and Grandpa are impressively spry: When the spring rains keep everyone inside, Grandpa does magic tricks ("He makes a penny disappear inside a blue hankie, and pulls yellow daisies from an old black hat"), and when the sky clears, Grandma loves to "splash-dance" through puddles." The book's structure is equally playful. Before the girl describes the fun of each season, she regales her brother with a different aspect of the journey to her grandparents' house (the pre-dawn wake-up, the way her pulse quickens when their house is in sight), elevating the car ride into a quest-like adventure. Bogacki further shakes things up by breaking most of his spreads into triptychs depicting different time frames. As the young narrator describes the way snow on the old house's porch looks "like Grandma's buttercream frosting," he depicts the girl creating a blizzard of torn paper for her enthralled brother in their living room, taking a snowy walk with Grandma and molding a snowball from the flakes on her grandparents' porch railing. A touching testimony to the deliciousness of anticipation and intergenerational love. Ages 3-8. (Sept.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. Order this book from Amazon |
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How Did You Grow So Big, So Soon? -- Carolrhoda Books
The night before his first day at school, a mother and son recount other new experiences he has had, such as his first words and first steps, and celebrate his growth and accomplishments. School Library Journal PreS-Gr 2-The night before a boy's first day of school, he asks his mother, "Did you know me when I was small?" She replies, "I knew your heart first, beating beneath mine, a tiny fist curled inside me." The text follows their conversation as she recounts the child's developmental milestones, and he remarks on the ways he has grown. The second half of the book focuses on the new experience he is about to embark on and his mother's loving encouragement. Backer's paintings capture the essence of the story as each spread depicts the tender connection between mother and son. Children will recognize and respond to these experiences, though they may not share the adult notion of time fleeting.-Leanna Manna, Villa Maria College, Buffalo, NY Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. Order this book from Amazon |
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Tooth Fairy's First Night --Carolrhoda Books
From the Publisher: On her seventh birthday, Sally gets the chance to earn her wings. She is finally on the way to get her first tooth, with the most important rule running through her mind—never wake a sleeping child! But when she reaches the first house, she's led on a treasure hunt filled with clues and hiding places! A good tooth fairy always gets her tooth. But will Sally get hers? This warm and playful tale about a determined tooth fairy will have children sleeping with one eye open, hoping to catch their own tooth fairy in the act.. Kirkus Reviews A resourceful young tooth fairy on her first mission encounters unexpected difficulties in this charmer. Armed with a satchel and a tiny flashlight, little Sally reaches beneath a sleeping child's pillow and finds, not a tooth, but a note-the first of a series of oblique rhymed clues to the tooth's hiding place. Depicted as a snub-nosed lass in casual clothes, with a shock of blonde hair and big, transparent dragonfly wings, Sally makes an appealing figure in Berkeley's watercolor close-ups, moving from dismay to determination, and flitting from clue to clue with a purposeful air. Recalling her profession's guiding principles: Be patient, Look on the bright side, and Always get your tooth, Sally solves each riddle in turn, and retrieves the tooth at last-leaving a note of her own beneath the pillow, with a clue to where she's hidden the unspecified "surprise." A natural companion for Betsy Jay's view from the other side of the encounter, Jane vs. the Tooth Fairy (2000). (Picture book. 6-8) School Library Journal: |
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