Knowing that school is starting soon, I thought I’d start putting together lists of some of the best school and back to school books. This list is inclusive of popular characters, preschool, kindergarten, teacher, school supply, etc. Enjoy the upcoming school year! Find these books at Amazon, other vendors, or your local library. I’ll be… Continue reading Back to School — an EXHAUSTIVE list
Category: Children’s Picture Books
My Favorite Things… Picture Books Pt. 14
This set of books is completely different from each other! But they all have their own important and beautiful charm. Award winners, world cultures, and just plain fun. One day Little Green rolls into town and says his first word: Go The town is building a bridge, and now everyone has a job to do,… Continue reading My Favorite Things… Picture Books Pt. 14
Folktales & Fairytales –The Ugly Duckling — Slightly Fractured Tales
You’ll recognize elements of the traditional Ugly Duckling fairy tale in these fractures tales. Some are far more fractured than others! Mother Duck is shocked to find an ugly duckling hatching from one of her eggs. The homely bird is driven off to fend for himself. Survival, however, takes more than good looks. Amazon.com In… Continue reading Folktales & Fairytales –The Ugly Duckling — Slightly Fractured Tales
Folktales & Fairytales — The Runaway Gingerbread — Traditional Tales ONE
These books are all the traditional story of the old couple, with no children to call their own, who bake a gingerbread cookie to keep them company. Just as the little old woman is about to take him from the oven, he slips away, runs out the door, and the rest is history. Each has… Continue reading Folktales & Fairytales — The Runaway Gingerbread — Traditional Tales ONE
Folktales & Fairytales Rapunzel — Traditional & World Cultures
What is the story of Rapunzel? She is a beautiful girl locked in a tall tower, and receives visits from her adoptive mother via her long, long, long (typically) blonde hair. Rapunzel longs to leave the tower and finds a way to leave in these traditional tales. A retelling of a folktale in which a… Continue reading Folktales & Fairytales Rapunzel — Traditional & World Cultures
Information Picture Books Pt. 13
These information picture books are science and biography around the world. Bonus to the biographies is that they are about social issues that are important to today’s world. The inspiring true story of how one African woman began a movement to recycle the plastic bags that were polluting her community. Isatou Ceesay was that change.… Continue reading Information Picture Books Pt. 13
Thought Provoking Reads 