Amber Coeville's Library
Northeast Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780615473932 | Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun | Maria Dismondy | Even though she is teased by a boy at school for being different, Lucy has the courage to be herself and comes to the boy's aid when he is in need of help. | Maria Dismondy Incorporated |
| 9780399255854 | Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon | Patty Lovell | ||
| 9780823415076 | Stargazers | Gail Gibbons | After the sun sets, on clear nights points of light begin to appear in the sky. But when we look up at the night sky, what are we seeing? Basic facts about the stars, as well as how we look at and learn about them, are introduced through simple text and bold illustrations. From ancient names for constellations to modern innovations in telescope technology, this book covers a broad range of ideas without overwhelming the reader. It introduces and reinforces important vocabulary for the aspiring astronomer, explaining everything in clear, simple phrases. Nonfiction master Gail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children’s writer-illustrator" according to The Washington Post. This book includes a brief timeline of major advances in astronomy, written in concise, kid-friendly language, and a wealth of fun facts and trivia about the stars. | Holiday House |
| 9780670866052 | Stories From the Classical Ballet | Belinda Hollyer | Tells the stories from eight well-known ballets. | Viking Children's Books |
| 9780152019525 | Sunflower House | Eve Bunting | A young boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves the seeds to make another house the next year. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780064450973 | Switch on, Switch Off | Melvin Berger | Explains how electricity is produced and transmitted, how to create electricity using an electrical wire and a magnet, how generators supply electricity for cities, and how electricity works in homes. | Collins |
| 9780399176913 | Ten Thank-You Letters | Daniel Kirk | While Pig is trying to finish a thank-you note to his grandmother, his best friend Rabbit repeatedly interrupts to borrow supplies for a series of his own notes, thanking all of the special people in their lives. -- Publisher. | Nancy Paulsen Books |
| 9781554537525 | That One Spooky Night | Dan Bar-el | This collection of graphic short stories written by Dan Bar-el contains three separate tales of strange and surprising events that all happen one Halloween night. In ?Broom with a View, ? a girl's broom for her witch costume mistakenly gets switched with a broom belonging to a real witch. Featured in ?10 000 Tentacles under the Tub? are two rambunctious boys who fight sea monsters while trick-or-treating as aqua-heroes, only to discover that their biggest challenge still awaits --- in the bathtub. In ?The Fang Gang, ? everything gets turned around for four wannabe vampire girls when they meet up with the real thing. Naturally, all the parents are clueless about what's going on (though in one, the pet dog is in on things ). The stories are just spooky enough and tempered with a touch of silly humor. They're an easy read with minimal text; some panels are even completely wordless or contain only sound effects along with the art. The engaging comic illustrations by David Huyck are darkly toned with lots of softly focused scenes, adding to the mysterious allure. Sharp-eyed readers will notice characters from one story making an appearance in the artwork of another. This book is a perfect classroom choice around Halloween, either as a fun read-aloud or as a great reference for discussing why we celebrate this holiday and the cultural origins of legends about witches, vampires and the like. But it would also be enjoyed year-round by children who like scary plots with not-quite-human character | Kids Can Press Ltd |
| 9780714845302 | The Art Book For Children | Editors of Phaidon Press | Can dressing up be art? How do you paint feelings? Why did Giuseppe Arcimboldo choose a grocer s shop to find his inspiration? How do you make an Alberto Giacometti? Can you paint a noise? Why did Jeff Koons make a giant sculpture from 70,000 plants? This book explores the choices and attitudes of thirty different artists. It helps stimulate children s own creativity and imagination by asking them to wonder why artists create things in the way that they do. It explores the various ideas, meanings, roles and functions of art by looking at painting, sculpture, photography and prints and helps develop children s understanding of colour, form, texture and pattern. Simple, clear and fun, it is an ideal tool for teachers and parents, as well as a perfect introduction to all those approaching art for the first time. This book is the offspring of The Art Book, one of the best-selling and most recognizable art books ever published.Publishers WeeklyThe Art Book for Children by Gilda Williams Ruggi presents classic and contemporary works in a fun way that makes art accessible. Each spread or two in the oversize, paper-over-board book introduces a different artist and invites kids to think about the works in unconventional ways. For Cindy Sherman's tweaked self-portraits (in which she poses in staged photographs), for instance, the text asks, If you dress up, do you just change your clothes and paint your face... or do you also change the way you behave? Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. | Phaidon Press |
| 9780394873336 | The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners | Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain | Mama Bear comes up with a plan to correct the Bear family's rude behavior. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780394805665 | The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies | Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain | Gran and Gramps come up with a plan to help selfish Brother and Sister Bear get rid of a bad case of the galloping greedy gimmies. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780060574154 | The Berenstain Bears' Sleepover | Jan Berenstain, Mike Berenstain | When Brother and Sister have a sleepover, not much sleeping gets done. Mama and Papa try their best to keep everything under control, but will they ever get those cubs to bed? | Harper Collins |
| 9780385755573 | The Boy Who Invented Tv | Kathleen Krull | An inspiring true story of a boy genius. Plowing a potato field in 1920, a 14-year-old farm boy from Idaho saw in the parallel rows of overturned earth a way to “make pictures fly through the air.” This boy was not a magician; he was a scientific genius and just eight years later he made his brainstorm in the potato field a reality by transmitting the world’s first television image. This fascinating picture-book biography of Philo Farnsworth covers his early interest in machines and electricity, leading up to how he put it all together in one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. The author’s afterword discusses the lawsuit Farnsworth waged and won against RCA when his high school science teacher testified that Philo’s invention of television was years before RCA’s. | National Geographic Books |
| 9781883220679 | The Dandelion Seed | Joseph Anthony, Cris Arbo | A dandelion seed has an adventure and when spring comes it begins to grow and become a new dandelion. | Dawn Publications (CA) |
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| 9780399176685 | The Gingerbread Man Loose on the Fire Truck | Laura Murray | When the Gingerbread Man joins the children who made him on a school field trip to a fire station, he escapes being eaten by Spot the Dalmatian and rides along to a fire. | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| 9780156423502 | The Hundred Dresses | Eleanor Estes | In winning a medal she is no longer there to recieve, a little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. | Voyager Books |
| 9780689844478 | The Keeping Quilt | Patricia Polacco | "We will make a quilt to help us always remember home," Anna's mother said. "It will be like heaving the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night. And so it was. From a basket of old clothes, Anna's babushka, Uncle Vladimir's shirt, Aunt Havalah's nightdress and an apron of Aunt Natasha's become The Keeping Quilt, passed along from mother to daughter for almost a century. For four generations the quilt is a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy, and a blanket that welcomes babies warmly into the world. In strongly moving pictures that are as heartwarming as they are real, patricia Polacco tells the story of her own family, and the quilt that remains a symbol of their enduring love and faith. | Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books |
| 9781338271522 | The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors | Drew Daywalt | In the Kingdom of Backyard, there lived a warrior named Rock. Meanwhile in the Empire of Mom's Home Office, there was a second great warrior Paper. In the Kitchen Realm, in the tiny village of Junk Drawer, lived a third warrior Scissors. These three were the strongest, smartest, and fastest in all the land. Time and again they beat the most fearsome opponents they could find. | |
| 9780142301890 | The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza | Philomen Sturges | The story of the industrious Little Red Hen is not a new one, but when this particular hen spies a can of tomato sauce in her cupboard and decides to make a pizza, the familiar tale takes on a fresh new twist. Kids will love following along as the hen, with no help from her friends the duck, the dog, and the cat, goes through the steps of making a pizza-shopping for supplies, making the dough, and adding the toppings. But despite their initial resistance, the hen's friends come through in the end and help out in a refreshing and surprising way. | National Geographic Books |