Books

Kellie

Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner:  rhyming, Mexico, imagination, spanish

If You Were Born a Kitten by Marion Dane Bauer:  animals, birth

One Smile by Cindy McKinley:  benevolence, kindness, gratitude

Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen:  regional (Quabbin Reservoir), history

Asia and Australia by DK:  geography, children, school

The Little Squeegy Bug by Bill Martin, Jr:  identity, belonging, persistance, purpose

A Child's Calendar by John Updike:  calendars, poetry, months, seasons

Thanksgiving:  A Harvest Celebration by Julie Stiegemeyer:  Thanksgiving, thankfulness, salvation

The Tale of Three Trees retold by Angela Elwell Hunt:  purpose, gospel, folk tales

The Magic Maguey by Tony Johnston:  Mexico, Christmas

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving:  read-aloud, folklore, classic

The Roald Dahl Treasury by Roald Dahl:  read-aloud, excerpts of fiction, poems, short stories, rhymes

Eric Carle's Treasury of Classic Stories for Children by Eric Carle:  read-aloud, fairy tales

The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter:  read-aloud, kindness, classic

When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne:  read-aloud, poetry, classic

My First Little House Books:  Winter Days in the Big Woods adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder:  fall,    winter, history, picture book, classic

My First Little House Books:  The Deer in the Wood adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder:  history, picture book, classic

My First Little House Books: Winter on the Farm adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder:  history, picture
book, work ethic, classic

Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall:  seasons, history, farming

Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert:  gardening, cooking, seed to pot

Buddy Butterly and His Cousin by Melissa Blackwell Burke:  butterfly life-cycle

A Butterfly's Life by Melissa Blackwell Burke:  butterly life-cycle, non-fiction

The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall:  apples, baking, bud-fruit, seasons, pollination

Fall Leaves Fall by Zoe Hall:  fall, seasons, trees

Possum's Harvest Moon by Anne Hunter:  fall, parties, animals

The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown:  fall, coming-of-age

It's Pumpkin Time by Zoe Hall:  fall, pumpkin life-cycle, halloween, seasons

Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White:  fall, pumpkins, baking, humor, kindness

Will You Bless Me?  by Neal Lozano:   Christmas, Jesus as boy, blessings

The Sword and the Grail retold by Constance Hieatt:  read-aloud, legend, knights

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Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco:  weather, fears, baking