Bugs is a picture book of poetry. This is a compilation of poems about different types of bugs. Some of the poems show how the type of bug lives, other talk about why some people do not like bugs.
This book is about a girl troll who was orphaned as a child but needs to have a dowry to get married to a man troll, so she works hard to get the dowry, but it turns out that the man troll was just mean and was only interested in her money she made. In the end she tells the dude troll off and marries the king because he loved her for who she was.
This book is about the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead, and shows what kind of celebrations and noises that arise during this time of celebration. It is a really great rhyming book and it’s really colorful too.
There is a widow with two daughters and one of the animals she has is a rooster named, Chanticleer. Chanticleer had a beautiful crow that everyone loved to hear, and one of his seven wives had a beautiful crow too. They would sing together in perfect harmony. One day Chanticleer was having a bad dream, so she woke him up and ask what was wrong. He explained to her that he was having a bad dream that a fox came and grabbed him up from the yard. She brushed off the dream and said she could not be in love with someone that was not fearless. The very next day, a fox was waiting for the perfect moment in the herd bushes. Chanticleer so him, the fox gloated about how well he thought Chanticleer could sing, so he started to sing for the fox and then he was grabbed up. The fox took off and everyone, the widow, her daughter, the sheeps, and all the other animals, took off after the fox. When Chanticleer asked the fox a question he answered and this is when Chanticleer escaped from the foxes mouth. The lesson is that you cannot trust in flattery.
This book puts in perspective what a great inventor Ben Franklin was. Things such as odometers, lightening rods, and bifocals were all due to his genius. It shows on one page Ben making the invention, and on the other us using it . This is a great book to read to students while discussing history.
This book is about a amazing person who faced many obstacles. Helen Keller at a young age became both blind and deaf due to a high fever. Still she was able to learn how to read and do many other things that we sometimes take for granted.
Allen Say describes his grandfather’s journey from Japan to America. On his three-week steamship voyage. He explores by train the western landscapes of huge rock formations and endless farm fields. During his travels, he meets people of different color, certainly a new sight for him. Eventually, his grandfather settles along the coast of California after briefly returning to Japan to marry his childhood sweetheart.
Eric and Julieta are brother and sister, with Eric being the big brother. Their mom and dad are resting and it is Eric’s job to play quietly with Julieta. But just like any little sister, she tends to be a bit annoying to Eric. She never stops talking, or she sits too close to him. Mom and dad will be going out to a party and Grandma is going to baby sit them.
While mom is resting Julieta tries on the party clothes her mother is going to wear that night including make up and jewelry with help from her brother.
The really great part about this story is that the words appear on the page in both Spanish and English!
Alemayu is a dreamer. When he goes off to spend all night on a cold mountain, in response to a rich man’s challenge, it takes all the imagination he can muster to survive. And when the rich man cheats him out of the reward, he and his sister must use their wisdom and imagination to come up with a solution. This book is a re-telling of an Ethiopian folktale.
While a grandmother prepares for a big fiesta there is a knock on the door, there was a skeleton who wanted her to go along with him. She told him that she would but she had to do something first. After she finished it, she remembered something else, counting along the way. After she finished everything her guess began to arrive, and they invited to skeleton to stay, he did. After the dinner he had to go but promised the grandmother that he would be back next year.