Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL My daughter and I completely related to adorable Llama Llama and his experiences on his first day of school. The author, Anna Dewdney, manages to describe the minute details and emotions of preparing and going to school for the first time using clever rhyming sentences. Each page consists of colorful and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Activities'
Llama Llama Misses Mama
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Tags:Activities·Anna Dewdney·Bravery·First Day of School·Huyen MacMichael·Llamas·Preschoolers
Annie and the Wild Animals
February 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Prolific, award-winning author and illustrator Jan Brett‘s Annie and the Wild Animals is the lushly illustrated winter tale of a girl and her cat Taffy. When Taffy begins acting strangely and disappears in the deep of winter, lonely Annie tries to entice another animal into becoming her friend by setting corn [...]
Tags:Activities·Animal Welfare Books for Kids·Companion Animals·Good for Toddlers·Jan Brett·Jennifer Gannett·Preschoolers·Spay·Wildlife
All About Garbage and Recycling
December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Movies
Review By JESSICA ALMY Kiddo has been asking about what happens to trash, and she was appalled to learn about landfills. So you can imagine her excitement when we rented Backpack Jack’s “All About Garbage and Recycling.” I’d never watched anything with Backpack Jack in it before. He reminded me of Steve Burns, the original [...]
Tags:Activities·Early Elementary·Educational Kids Films·Environmental Kids Movies·Garbage·Kids Movies·Preschoolers·Recycling
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY I remember loving Beatrix Potter’s book The Tale of Peter Rabbit when I was a little girl, so it’s fun to look at it again as an adult. While it’s true that the animals wear shoes and jackets (which is a little strange), I still love the mischievous Peter and his [...]
Tags:Activities·Beatrix Potter·Early Elementary·Living With Wildlife·Mr. McGregor·Peter Rabbit·Preschoolers·Rabbits
The Very Busy Spider
November 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Spiders have a special status in our home. Rather than shoo them outside — as we do for other bugs — we let spiders stay, at least for a little while. It’s not surprising then that Eric Carle‘s classic board book, The Very Busy Spider, is also a favorite around here. [...]
Tags:Activities·Baby Book·Board Book·Eric Carle·Good for Toddlers·Preschoolers·Spider
‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving
November 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants, wrote and illustrated a decidedly pro-vegetarian children’s book for publishing behemoth Scholastic. In a playful parody on the classic Christmas poem, Pilkey brings a busload of children to a turkey farm where they befriend birds Ollie, Stanley, Larry, Moe, Wally, Beaver, Shemp, and Groucho. The [...]
Tags:Activities·Dav Pilkey·Early Elementary·Farmed Animals·Holiday Books·Lesson Plans·Preschoolers·Thanksgiving Books for Vegetarian Kids·Turkeys·vegan·vegan kids·Vegan Thanksgiving·Vegetarian·vegetarian kids·Vegetarian Kids Books·Vegetarian Thanksgiving
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