Alphabet Under Construction
9 best books like Alphabet Under Construction (Denise Fleming): The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?, Eating the Alphabet, Children Make Terrible Pets, Bedtime for Bear, 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo, Ten, Nine, Eight, Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, The Pirate of Kindergarten, Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop: Slave-Explorer
The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1423151283 |
Much to the chagrin of Pigeon, little Duckling uses very polite manners to request a cookie, and actually gets one. Filled with righteous fury, Pigeon loses his temper and complains bitterly about this terrible state of affairs. However, things aren't what they seem, and Duckling has a secret plan!...
Just as the sub-title indicates, this is an A to Z listing of fruits and vegetables paired with water color illustrations.
The best part? Using it as a tool. For younger children: letter identification (by sight or by sound). Each food is labeled in upper as well as lower case letters. The book...
Children Make Terrible Pets
| Author | Peter Brown |
| ISBN | 0316015482 |
Lucy, young bear, finds a very adorable creature (a little boy) in the woods one day and promptly brings it home to be her pet. Her mother warns that "children make terrible pets." But, Lucy is convinced that she and her boy will be very happy together. And they are--for awhile. But, when the boy goes...
| Author | Brett Helquist |
| ISBN | 0060502053 |
Bear finds it difficult to get to sleep in this engaging picture-book from author/artist Brett Helquist, who also illustrated Lemony Snicket's popular A Series of Unfortunate Events. With winter having arrived, it is time to hibernate, but his raccoon friends want him to come out and play instead,...
| Author | Eric Carle |
| ISBN | 0399230130 |
Joyously colored animals, riding on a train to the zoo, offer youngsters a first introduction to numbers, number sets, addition and counting in Eric Carle’s first picture book. A gate-fold spread at the back of the book, featuring the whole wonderful animal train, adds to the fun! Each car on the train...
| Author | Molly Bang |
| ISBN | 0688149014 |
This is a simple and sweet beginning number book counting down from 10 to 1 and then going to bed. I am not crazy about the artwork, but the painting of the 10 toes was beautiful. I’m not sure what it was, but it didn’t work for me personally. I think this is great for very young children, but it was way to...
| Author | Lois Ehlert |
| ISBN | 0152661972 |
While I certainly do much enjoy the bright and expressive collage like illustrations (especially of the woodpeckers which just happen to also be my favourite birds), I personally think that it would have been better for Lois Ehlert to have either penned a non-fiction book about sugar maples (and woodpeckers)...
The Pirate of Kindergarten
| Author | George Ella Lyon |
| ISBN | 1416950249 |
Doubles are good for lots of things—double scoops of ice cream, double features at the movies. But double vision is NOT a good kind of double. In fact, it can make kindergarten kind of hard. Ginny sees double chairs at reading circle and double words in her books. She knows that only half of what she sees...
Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop: Slave-Explorer
Grab your lantern and follow the remarkable and world-famous Mammoth Cave explorer—and slave—Stephen Bishop as he guides you through the world’s largest cave system in this remarkable homage to the resilience of human nature.
Welcome to Mammoth Cave. It’s 1840 and my name’s...
