Fidgety Fish
10 best books like Fidgety Fish (Ruth Galloway): Mouse's First Snow, When Winter Comes, Commotion in the Ocean (Picture Books), Stretch, Ten Little Fish, Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef, Pigs Love Potatoes, Let's Count Goats!, Can You Growl Like a Bear?, Before You Were Mine
| Author | Lauren Thompson |
| ISBN | 0689858361 |
Mouse and Poppa have so much fun playing in the snow! We had some skeptics in our storytime group that didn't think Mouse could sled, skate, and make snow angels just like his Poppa can, but we quickly learned that Mouse can do anything he sets his mind to... he just does so in his own unique way! There were...
| Author | Nancy Van Laan |
| ISBN | 0689817789 |
As bland as the snow.
Very repetitive. I certainly couldn't read this to my kid because it would drive me crazy.
Every other page is, “Where, oh where does the X go/When winter comes and the cold winds blow?” And then it says where it goes. It's in rhyme. It's all about the different...
Commotion in the Ocean (Picture Books)
I finished reading “Commotion in the Ocean” by Giles Andreae. This book is about many of the animals that live in the ocean, and that live around the ocean. It talks about all of the fish, the ones that live in shallow waters, all the way to the ones that live in deep sea at the bottom of the ocean. This book...
| Author | Doreen Cronin |
| ISBN | 1416953418 |
Can you stretch to the ceiling? Can you stretch to the floor? You can stretch with a whisper, you can stretch with a roar! Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin give new meaning to the yoga pose downward facing dog as publishing’s most energetic pooch explores the many, many ways a kid can get limber. More than...
| Author | Audrey Wood |
| ISBN | 0439635691 |
Bestselling author Audrey Wood and artist son Bruce create an undersea counting book that's full of the same vivid imagery and fun story elements that have made their alphabet books so successful!
It's an undersea countdown in the newest book by bestselling author Audrey Wood and her dynamic,...
Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef
| Author | Marianne Berkes |
| ISBN | 1584690623 |
I put Over in the Ocean in my favorites tab because it is a great way to integrate poetry, rhyme, and song into the classroom. The illustrations are very colorful, intricate, and lively, which I think would really get the students engaged. It is a great way to teach counting and numbers as well because each...
| Author | Anika Aldamuy Denise |
| ISBN | 0399240365 |
One pig wants potatoes . . . then so does his brother . . . his sister makes it three pigs, and Papa makes four. Then there are the neighbors! Now all the piggies want potatoes, and soon it's one big potato party! Anika and Christopher Denise have teamed up to create this most charming, classic counting book,...
| Author | Mem Fox |
| ISBN | 1442405988 |
I can see the airport goats and I can see their cases.
But can you count the pilot goats with goggles on their faces?
This hilarious count-to-ten book features goats of all shapes, sizes, hobbies, and professions—and each spread gives readers a delightful opportunity to count the...
This adorable read-aloud features appealing baby animals and a rhyming text that is sure to please.
From trumpeting like an elephant to howling like a wolf, author-illustrator John Butler delights the very young with this simple, interactive look at different animals and the noises they make.
Butler's...
A little boy imagines what life was like for his new dog before he adopted him from a shelter. Maybe he had a boy who loved him, but the family had to move and couldn't keep him. Maybe he belonged to someone who didn't appreciate how mischievous puppies can be. Maybe he was treated badly, and now he can be shown...
| Author | Troy Cummings |
| ISBN | 0375865829 |
Artist Troy Cummings has created a clever spin-off of the "Eensy Weensy Spider" nursery rhyme in this humorous picture book, sure to appeal to kids and adults who also love fractured fairy tales.The Eensy Weensy Spider climbed up the waterspout . . . and everyone knows what happens next! By the time the...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0152054103 |
This is an adorable and simple pattern picture book for children. The story begins with a rooster summoning the rest of the barn animals to be quickly get ready for some unknown event by yelling “Hurry! Hurry!”. A variety of barn animals including sheep, pigs, dogs, ducks, and cows, all gather, run,...
| Author | Jackie French |
| ISBN | 1595721126 |
Pamela likes pears. She likes green pears, red pears and stewed pears with ice cream. But with Pamela liking pears so much, nobody else on the farm gets any pears. (Did I mention Pamela is a cow?) What can Amy do to get Pamela to stop eating all the pears?
This is a very, very funny book! Pamela is an enormous...
Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea
| Author | Jan Peck |
| ISBN | 0689851103 |
I also read Jan Peck's book Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea to my reception class while on placement. The book tells the story of a little boy who swims under the sea and meets different sea creatures. It has a regular rhyming pattern throughout the book, a perfect book to read aloud to a class. I feel that...
| Author | Angela DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 1416986944 |
With an interactive text and bright, playful illustrations, explore what baby animals really mean when they make their adorable baby animal sounds.
When a lion says ROAR,
does he really mean MORE?
When a cow says MOO,
does she really mean YOU?
How do we know what animals...
On the surface, this book is absolutely adorable. The bunnies are cute and the message that strong feelings can make us do bad things is great. But there is a major flaw in this book that is hard to overcome. The words say, "But sometimes feeling sad or mad can make a little bunny bad." Then later we learn that...
The Very Lazy Ladybug Pop-Up
| Author | Isobel Finn |
| ISBN | 1589257146 |
A good book for early years and maybe year 3 too. I enjoyed the book due the exciting colourful images, assorted fonts and sizes and extremely interesting content. The story is based on a lazy ladybird who is looking for a place to sleep. She travels from one animal to another in order to find a suitable place...
Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo
| Author | Karma Wilson |
| ISBN | 0316985643 |
I love buying books for my son where he can learn something, but I also enjoy buying books that are simply fun. This book is a delight to read. The length is just right, the pictures are amusing, and the story has a wonderful cadence to it. I am always telling my son to lower his voice. When I saw this book, I knew...
Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance
| Author | Keith Graves |
| ISBN | 0811821692 |
Frank was a monster who wanted to dance. So he put on his hat, and his shoes made in France...and opened a jar and put ants in his pants! So begins this monstrously funny, deliciously disgusting, horrifyingly hilarious story of a monster who follows his dream. Keith Graves' wacky illustrations and laugh-out-loud...
How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read?
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0439569842 |
This extremely little short book (only 6 pages!!!) is written in the same style as Jane Yolen & Mark Teague's other dinosaur book collaborations together, such as HOW DO DINOSAURS SAY GOOD NIGHT? and HOW DO DINOSAURS GET WELL SOON? The book was created as a promotional item to teach kids to have good...
| Author | Matt Buckingham |
| ISBN | 1589250591 |
Far below the waves, a little fish named Stanley lives with his school--the brightest, sparkliest fish of the deep, dark sea. One morning, Stanley wakes up late, and the reef is strangely quiet. Follow Stanley as he diligently searches for his friends and meets other ocean creatures, including the...
| Author | Jonathan London |
| ISBN | 0670012211 |
Before reading the story, I had my students to imagine what a trip to Hawaii would be like. My class really enjoyed this story mainly because of the sound effects and the "FROOGGGYYYYY". I used this story to introduce Maps. We were looking at the different places across the world and I asked the students...
| Author | Lucy Cousins |
| ISBN | 1844280225 |
Splosh, splash, splish, Hooray for fish! Swim with Little Fish and meet all his fishy friends in this splishy-sploshy riot of colour and rhyme under the sea. A piscatorial picture-book delight from award-winning artist Lucy Cousins. Fish-themed point-of-sale, including mobiles to create your...
| Author | Divya Srinivasan |
| ISBN | 0670785156 |
Octopus loves living on the busy reef under the sea. From her cozy cave, she can see clown fish, and sea turtles, and little butterflies swimming by. She especially loves watching the seahorses having fun, wiggling and twirling. Sometimes she will play with them, but occasionally Octopus just...
