Jessica Broadhurst's Library
Rossview Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780027746754 | Uncle Melvin | Daniel Manus Pinkwater | Charles enjoys spending time with his gentle Uncle Melvin, even though Melvin harbors strange delusions about his own power to talk to the birds or control the rain. | Atheneum |
| 9781845069438 | Under the Silvery Moon | Colleen McKeown | When Kitten can't fall asleep, his mother soothes him with a lullaby about the sounds of the night and the animals that make them. | |
| 9780439077590 | Vacation Under the Volcano | Mary Pope Osborne | Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash. | |
| 9780439800761 | Valentine's Day From the Black Lagoon | Mike Thaler | Hubie learns about love while trying to decide to whom he should give a valentine. | |
| 9780590273640 | Vegetable Soup | Ann Morris | Illustrates the ingredients and process of making vegetable soup. | |
| 0590030299 | Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle | A hungry caterpillar eats until he becomes a butterfly | Scholastic |
| 9781568460390 | Water | Kitty Benedict | Creative Education | |
| 9780590738866 | We Eat Dinner in the Bathtub | Angela Shelf Medearis, Jacqueline Rogers | A young boy visits a friend who lives in a topsy-turvy house. | SCHOLASTIC |
| 9780545698955 | Whack of the P-Rex | Troy Cummings | When Alexander and his friends find a very large footprint and piles of candy everywhere, they realize the school is being threatened by a Piänata-saurus Rex, a sweet-tasting monster who likes to smash things--and they find that the solution may be as near as a broken ant farm. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780899194646 | What's Claude Doing? | Dick Gackenbach | A dog refuses all the neighborhood pets' invitations to come out to play, not admitting that he's generously keeping his sick master company. | |
| 9780439204736 | What's My Job? | Lyn Calder | Brief rhyming clues invite the reader to identify a variety of occupations. | |
| 9780439099547 | What's up with that Cup? | Sheila Keenan, Jackie Snider, Marilyn Burns | While trying to make a piggy bank, a young girl learns the importance of using standard measurements. Includes related activities. Full-color illustrations. | Cartwheel Books |
| 9780525442042 | When I'm Sleepy | Jane R. Howard, Lynne Cherry | A child speculates about sleeping next to various animals in various places other than one's own, and most desirable, warm bed. | Dutton Childrens Books |
| 9780590128186 | Where's that Spider? | Bernice Chardiet, Barbara Brenner | Presents information about different kinds of spiders. The reader is invited to find spiders hidden in the illustrations. | |
| 9781486703845 | Why Do Computers Know so Much? | Jennifer Shand | Early learners are encouraged to ask and answer questions about technology (e.g. Why do cell phones not work in some places? Why do light bulbs come in different shapes? Why do televisions have flat screens? Why do microwaves spin your food round and round?) in this playful text. Each question is posed and answered first with an imaginative "silly" answer followed by the correct answer. The text sequence and repetition creates an engaging game for young readers, as they are encouraged to dream up their own "silly" answer on the way to learning. | |
| 9780976336938 | Will You Be My Friend | Nancy Tafuri | Bird comes to feel less shy when Bunny helps her rebuild her ruined nest, showing her what a good friend can be. | |
| 9780140505795 | Wings | James Marshall | For use in schools and libraries only. Silly Minnie finds herself in all kinds of trouble when she accepts a balloon ride from a crafty fox, and it is up to her sensible friend Harriet to rescue her. | |
| 9781484702444 | World of Reading: Doc Mcstuffins Brave Dragon | Disney Book Group, Bill Scollon | Despite being all better after falling down and getting covered by burs while playing, Stuffy has trouble being brave enough to play again. | Disney Press |
| 9780439784566 | Yikes! Bikes! | Abby Klein | Meet the new kid on the block! It's Freddy Thresher, a first grader with a nose for trouble. It's not that he's trying to do anything bad. It's just that he's a boy who gets a little too creative and inventive when he has a problem. | Blue Sky Press (AZ) |
| 9780316013161 | You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together | Mary Ann Hoberman | Here's a book with something new - you read to me! I'll read to you! We'll read each page to one another - you'll read one side, I the other. A unique book 'in two voices' that uses traditional reading teaching techniques (alliteration, rhyme, repetition, short sentences) to invite young children to read along with an adult. Each of the twelve short stories fit on one spread and features childlike themes - family, friendship, pets and seasons.With clear, color-coded typography and amusing illustrations, this collection is sure to entertain. | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |