Carissa Casteel's Library
Barksdale Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780064431231 | Anno's Counting Book | Mitsumasa Anno | 'An excellent introduction to number systems that is a beautiful wordless picture book as well. . . Over the course of a year (each picture represents a different month and time of day) a little town grows up with viewers witnessing the building of bridges, streets, and railroads. . . . Extraordinary lovely art work.' 'SLJ. | Harper Collins |
| 9780394800189 | Are You My Mother? | P.D. Eastman | The must-have, heartwarming and hilarious classic about a baby bird in search of his mother! A baby bird goes in search of his mother in this hilarious Beginner Book edited by Dr. Seuss. When a mother bird's egg starts to jump, she hurries off to make sure she has something for her little one to eat. But as soon as she's gone, out pops the baby bird. He immediately sets off to find his mother, but not knowing what she looks like makes it a challenge. The little hatchling is determined to find his mother, even after meeting a kitten, a hen, a dog, and a Snort. The timeless message of the bond between mother and child make P. D. Eastman's Are You My Mother? a treasured classic. Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780673613509 | At the Pond | Joanne Nelson | Each day a mother and daughter go to the pond to watch what develops from the eggs in the water. | Scott Foresman |
| 9780439893619 | Bad Kitty | Nick Bruel | When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad. From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Boing! comes the riotous story of a cat gone berserk; four times over an in alphabetical order each time. Kitty is not happy when she's told that her favorite foods are all gone and all that's left are asparagus, beets, cauliflower, dill, and 22 other equally unappealing vegetables. So she ate my homework, bit grandma, clawed the curtains, damaged the dishes, and so on, through Z. Only when tastier things arrive, an assortment of anchovies, buffalo burritos, chicken cheesecake, does she apologize to grandma. | |
| 9781338223255 | Barkus | Patricia MacLachlan | Barkus is a large and very smart dog who comes to live with seven-year-old Nicky when Nicky's Uncle Everton goes traveling--and soon he is a family and school favorite. | |
| 9781338232615 | Be Who You Are | Todd Parr | Picture book encouraging kids to be proud of what makes them unique, where they come from, and how they express themselves and see the world. | |
| 9780545647564 | Bear Says Thanks | Karma Wilson | Bear thanks his friends for bringing food dishes to his dinner party and finds a way of sharing something of his own. | |
| 9781338034868 | Bee Dance | Rick Chrustowski | scholastic | |
| 9781880000267 | Bein' with You This Way | W. Nikola-Lisa | In a rap-style prose poem, a racially mixed group of children enjoying a sunny day at the playground discovers the virtues of racial diversity and, at the same time, the basic identity of all human beings | |
| 9781433335655 | Big and Little | Dona Herweck Rice | Introduces the concept of size. | Teacher Created Materials |
| 9781781715963 | Brilliant Brain | Anna Claybourne | Discusses facts about the brain and how it affects human bodies including activities and experiments for the students. | |
| 9780142410790 | Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain | A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain. | ||
| 9780590255066 | Bubba, The Cowboy Prince | Helen Ketteman | Bubba, a cheerful soul, leads a miserable life. His wicked step-daddy and two nasty step-brothers, Dwayne and Milton, are at him all day long. When he's not doing their chores, he's cleaning the stables, roping the steers or branding the cattle. When will it ever be Bubba's turn to shine? Miz Lurleen, the purtiest (and richest!) rancher in Texas, is tired of ten-dollar Stetsons on 2-cent heads. She aims to find herself a real man, and a hoe-down ball is just the way to do it. With the help of a fairy godcow and the loss of a cowboy boot, Bubba and Miz Lurleen find each other--and true love--in this funny, fractured role-reversed Texas Cinderella. | Scholastic Press |
| 9781338561548 | Bunny Will Not Smile! | Jason Tharp | Big And Bunny Are Friends. Bunny Will Not Smile. Big Even Tried Carrots! Can You Help?--back Cover. | |
| 9780673613622 | Busy as a Bee | Gail Blasser Riley | Scott Foresman | |
| 9780545620239 | Butterfly Boy | Virginia Kroll | ||
| 9780060539450 | Bye-Bye, Mom and Dad | Mercer Mayer | Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches.Popcorn and candy at the movies.And burgers and shakes to end the day . . .Just leave it to Little Critter to take careof things while Mom and Dad are away! | HarperFestival |
| 9781338765168 | Can You See A Circle?: Explore Shapes (Nature Numbers): Explore Shapes | Ruth Musgrave | K-2 math concepts include learning about shapes. Shapes are all around us, from a circle in a sunflower to a sphere in the sun to a hexagon in a bee's honeycomb.This book is an introduction to basic shapes, such as triangles and squares, and to 3-D shapes, such as cubes and cones, all shown through beautiful photographs of North American forests, fields, and lakes. Math panels encourage kids to combine simple shapes to make complex ones and to practice their early geometry skills.ABOUT THE SERIES:In Nature Numbers, math is beautiful, recognizable, and all around us! Highly engaging pictures of animals and nature scenes, along with cool chalk illustrations, are used to introduce basic math concepts and encourage kids to see a world of numbers all around them. | Children's Press |
| 9780545767279 | Chicken Little | Liza Charlesworth | ||
| 9780590100694 | Circle of Thanks | Susi Gregg Fowler, Peter Catalanotto | An unusual Thanksgiving story involves an Alaskan boy and his mother, whose rescue of a baby otter inspires similar acts of kindness. | Scholastic |