Silvia Bentley's Library
Kirkwood Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781423175674 | Meet the Planes | Disney Storybook Art Team | A jacketed hardcover guide to the characters from the Planes franchise, from Dusty to El Chu to Skipper, with everyone else in between! Meet the Planes will give detailed descriptions of everyone's favorite planes, including trivia and fun facts on more than 100 characters. Plus the book jacket reverses to reveal a poster of all the characters. | Disney Press |
| 9780399255939 | Miss Maple's Seeds | After gathering lost seeds during the summer, a kind woman tends and instructs them throughout the fall and winter before sending them out in the spring to find roots of their own. | ||
| 9780590477246 | Miss Spider's Tea Party | Kirk, David | Scholastic Press | |
| 9780689818974 | Miss Tizzy | Libba Moore Gray | The neighbors may think Miss Tizzy quite peculiar, but the children love her. They love her colorful house and her colorful clothes, but most of all they love the special attention she pays to them all. Together, they bake cookies, make pictures full of sunshine and butterflies for folks who have stopped smiling, play dress-up, put on puppet shows and parades, or stretch out on bright quilts in Miss Tizzy's backyard of an evening to sing moon songs. When Miss Tizzy becomes ill and takes to her bed, the children know just what to do to let her know she is missed and loved. Here's a picture book certain to touch the hearts of children of any age. | Aladdin |
| 9780881069938 | More M&m's Brand Chocolate Candies Math | Barbara Barbieri McGrath | Rhyming text and illustrations use candy to teach mathematical skills and concepts such as estimation, graph interpretation, division, multiplication, factoring, and problem solving. | Charlesbridge Pub Incorporated |
| 9780679882824 | Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? | Dr. Seuss | This simple, silly, sturdy book for babies of all ages focuses on the wacky and wonderful sounds that children hear all the time. (Baby/Preschool) | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9781474762434 | My Footprints | Bao Phi | Every child feels different in some way, but Thuy feels "doubly different". She is of Vietnamese origin and she has two mums. Thuy walks home one winter afternoon, angry and lonely after a bully's taunts. Then a bird catches her attention and sets Thuy on an imaginary exploration. What if she could fly away like a bird? What if she could sprint like a deer, or roar like a bear? Mimicking the footprints of each creature in the snow, she makes her way home to the arms of her mums. Together, the three of them imagine beautiful and powerful creatures who always have courage -- just like Thuy. | |
| 9781338833652 | Never Let a Unicorn Scribble! | This story is about a little girl who keeps hearing, "Never let a unicorn scribble!" But in her heart believes that people just don't understand how beautiful scribbling can be. She keeps trying to teach her unicorn to scribble but soon realizes this is more difficult then she anticipated. But instead of giving up, she uses her imagination to come up with a creative way to get her unicorn to scribble, at first it looks like it was complete disaster but ends up being truly magical! | ||
| 9780399226168 | Officer Buckle and Gloria | Peggy Rathmann | Officer Buckle knows more about safety than anyone else in Napville, but his dull presentations put his audiences to sleep. Enter Gloria, Napville's new police dog. Gloria knows just how to liven up the safety speeches--as long as Officer Buckle's back is turned! Full color. Caldecott medal Book. | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers |
| 9781481453691 | Olivia Plays Soccer (Ready-to-Read) Level One | Ian Falconer | When Olivia Puts Down Her Favorite Book During Story Time At The Library, It Goes Missing! Help Olivia Find It In Time For Her Bedtime Story. | Simon & Schuster |
| 9781338193763 | On the First Day of Kindergarten | Tish Rabe | "A five-year-old recounts the cool new things she got to do in the first twelve days of kindergarten"-- | Harper |
| 9780439249782 | One Monkey Too Many | Jackie French Koller | Adventurous monkeys have a series of mishaps and escapades involving a bike, a canoe, a restaurant, and a hotel. | |
| 9780545115858 | One Smart Cookie | John A. Nez | When Cookie, a dog who can read and write, goes to school, he not only inspires the children there, he also helps avert disaster. | |
| 9781524738778 | Otis and the Kittens | Loren Long | When Otis the tractor becomes trapped in a burning barn, after rescuing kittens, his animal friends and local firefighters come to his aid. | |
| 9780578629094 | Our Class Is a Family | Shannon Olsen | "Family isn't always your relatives. It's the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what." -Unknown Teachers do so much more than just teach academics. They build a sense of community within their classrooms, creating a home away from home where they make their students feel safe, included, and loved. With its heartfelt message and colorfully whimsical illustrations, "Our Class is a Family" is a book that will help build and strengthen that class community. Kids learn that their classroom is a place where it's safe to be themselves, it's okay to make mistakes, and it's important to be a friend to others. When hearing this story being read aloud by their teacher, students are sure to feel like they are part of a special family. And currently, during such an unprecedented time when many teachers and students are not physically IN the classroom due to COVID-19 school closures, it's more important than it's ever been to give kids the message that their class is a family. Even at a distance, they still stick together. | |
| 9780062868503 | Pete the Cat: Super Pete | James Dean, Kimberly Dean | HarperCollins | |
| 9780545859653 | Pig Wants a Peach | Liza Charlesworth | ||
| 9781338157512 | Pink Is for Blobfish | Jess Keating | "An informative introduction to the weirdest, wildest, pinkest creatures in the animal kingdom"-- | |
| 9781590141014 | Rainbow Fish & Friends Star of the Sea | Gail Donovan | Holiday House | |
| 9781786030184 | Rosa Parks | Lisbeth Kaiser | New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the incredible life of Rosa Parks, ' The Mother of the Freedom Movement', in this inspiring story. In this true story of an inspiring civil rights activist, Rosa Parks grew up during segregation in Alabama, but she was taught to respect herself and stand up for her rights. In 1955, Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her decision had a huge impact on civil rights, eventually leading to the end of segregation on public transport. With stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, this empowering series celebrates the important life stories of wonderful women of the world. From designers and artists to scientists, all of them went on to achieve incredible things, yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream. These books make the lives of these role models accessible for children, providing a powerful message to inspire the next generation of outstanding people who will change the world! | Frances Lincoln Children's Bks |