It's Christmas!

Author	Herman Parish
ISBN	0060843527

When Amelia Bedelia is put in charge of the school Thanksgiving pageant, things are bound to get a little mixed up. After all, she thinks roles are a type of bread, the dressing room is where the turkey's stuffing goes, and that a cast party happens after you've followed a well-wisher's command to "break...

Author

Kate Coombs

"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea."

Admission: I have a great weakness for sea poetry. Like Melville's Ishmael,...

Author	Eve Bunting
ISBN	0152024220

Simon and his mom don't have much--the cardboard house they built for themselves, a tiny Christmas tree, and a picture of an angel pinned to one wall. On Christmas Eve they take in a frail stranger who needs a place to keep warm, and the next morning Simon wakes early to find that the woman has vanished. Instead,...

Author	Holly Hobbie
ISBN	1844280012

Loving piggy pals Toot and Puddle are back--well, actually, Toot isn't back yet. As in Holly Hobbie's earlier Toot and Puddle, Toot has the travel bug while Puddle contentedly tends the home fires. In his postcard from Scotland, Toot promises to be home for Christmas. But ice storms and delayed flights...

Author	B.G. Hennessy
ISBN	0670844772

( Corduroy's Christmas by B.G. Hennessy )


Corduroy's Christmas is a cute and quick read. It also has pop up pictures! No wait... Not pop up. You when when you get a picture and you can actually flip it over and it reveals a picture underneath? That's what I mean! The illustrations...

Author	Margaret Wise Brown
ISBN	0060281898

They put golden tinsel on his branches
And golden bells
And green icicles
And silver stars
And red and green and blue and purple chains of shining Christmas balls.

All alone in an empty field grew a little fir tree. It dreamed of being part of a forest-or part of anything at all....

Author	Barbara Helen Berger
ISBN	0399212337

A beautifully illustrated story of the Nativity.  He was just an ordinary donkey, but on his back he carried a miracle. He carried the Virgin Mary to Bethlehem on the night she gave birth. Along the way he dreamed he was carrying a city, a ship, a fountain, and a rose. He dreamed he was carrying a lady full...

Author	Kevin Henkes
ISBN	0062081993

Penny and Her Doll by Kevin Henkes (2012)
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Format: Book
Plot summary: Penny recieves and new doll and has trouble finding the perfect name for her.
Considerations or precautions for readers advisory (strong language, sex, death, religious overtones, violence,...

Author	Patricia Polacco
ISBN	0698119657

Santa! He's not even real!

It's not easy being Welcome Comfort-a foster child always moving from home to home and getting picked on by the kids at school. Even Christmas, the most wondrous time of the year, isn't so wondrous for Welcome, since he has no family, no presents, and no Santa Claus....

Author	Rumer Godden
ISBN	0333344847

Day in and day out the dutiful mousewife works alongside her mousehusband. The house of Miss Barbara Wilkinson, where the Mouses make their home, is a nice house and the mousewife is for the most part happy with her lot—and yet she yearns for something more. But what? Her husband, for one, can’t imagine....

Author	Dav Pilkey
ISBN	0439548489

Award-winning author/illustrator of the Captain Underpants series, Dav Pilkey's gentle blue Dragon (from the hit TV series) will charm beginning readers with his delightful Christmas adventures!

Dragon tries to make Christmas special each year. He picks the perfect tree and buys the...

Author

Loreen Leedy

Absolutely LOVED it! I will definitely make use of this next year when introduction fractions to my second graders. The story is made up of blurbs which assist lower level readers. The “teacher” in the story teaches her student s about halves, thirds, fourths, and fifths. The teacher uses an overhead,...

Author	Byrd Baylor
ISBN	0689711069

Pieces of broken pots are scattered over the desert hillsides of the Southwest. The Indians there treat them with respect -- "Every piece of clay is a piece of someone's life," they say. And the children try to imagine those lives that took place in the desert they think of as their own.
Clay has its...

Author	Jane O'Connor
ISBN	0062083074

This book is tutu cute! (Sorry. I couldn't resist.) Not only are the illustrations in this one adorable, but it has a sweet message.

Nancy has too many tutus! So many, in fact, that she can't close her closet door. When the school has a swap-and-shop, her mom convinces her to get rid of some of the...

Author	Christine King Farris
ISBN	0545035376

Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister, Christine, recounts the day of the March and his 'I Have A Dream Speech' in Washington D.C. I listened to this on audiobook and I was able to finish it in under twenty minutes, which was nice, and I'm glad I did because there were pieces from that day inserted into the audiobook...

Author	Mike Reiss
ISBN	0060591269

The first Un–Christmas classic from the bestselling team of How Murray Saved Christmas.

When Noelle wakes up every morning, she must put her new pony in the backyard with all of her other ponies and her new bike in the garage with all of her other bikes. It is another normal day in Christmas City,...

Author	Tomie dePaola
ISBN	0613014928

Text Set book #8

This book is an Italian fairy-tale-like folklore book about a young man who seeks a princess, and works with Pasta in order to gain her father’s respect. At the end of the story, Tony creates the Italian bread, panetonne. This book demonstrates how different one cultures side...

Author	Reeve Lindbergh
ISBN	0140553371

My daughter picked this one out tonight: Daddy, this is one we haven't read in a looooooonnnggg time! She was right, I had forgotten all about it. Which I realize is not a great compliment, but it's not really an earth-shattering story. However, it is very clever, and is probably worth at least 4 stars....

Author	David Catrow
ISBN	0545057477

Horn Book (Spring 2011)

In his second story, dog Max Spaniel becomes a "great chef," but when a tour bus driver orders "one hundred pizzas with everything," Max knows he's in over his head. The humorous text with numerous puns is easy to read. Zany, exuberant watercolor illustrations expand...

Author	Stan Berenstain
ISBN	0060526726

The writing is very different.
They're going all out for their house!
It shows Toys "R" Bears. 'Now it seemed Christmas meant let's push and shove!' 
I like the scene of Santa's sleigh in the sky over Bear Country covered in snow.
'Now Santa got e-mail, 
Which he read with...

Author	Dallas Clayton
ISBN	0062116665

The second book in the Awesome Book series by Dallas Clayton, perfect for everyone you love

There are so many different kinds of love-the way you love your husband or wife, the way you love your child, the way you love your parents-and Dallas Clayton knows just how to describe them all. In this...