Everyone loves Willy the wind-up mouse, while Alexander the real mouse is chased away with brooms and mousetraps. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be loved and cuddled, thinks Alexander, and he wishes he could be a wind-up mouse too. In this gentle fable about a real mouse and a mechanical mouse, Leo Lionni explores the magic of friendship. Originally published in 1969, the Caldecott Honor-winning …
Tibili laughs. All the time. Sometimes he even laughs in his sleep. But when his mother tells him he'll be going to school when classes start again, he stops laughing. Tibili doesn't want to go to school. He doesn't want to sit in a classroom. He doesn't think he needs to know how to read and write. He would rather read the sky or the red dust of the road. He would rather dream. Tibili question…
After Katie gets caught teasing a schoolmate, she's told to meet with Mrs. Petrowski, the school counselor, so she can make right her wrong and learn to be a better friend. Bothered at first, it doesn't take long before Katie realizes that bullying has hurt not only the people around her, but her, too. Told from the unusual point of view of the bullier rather than the bullied, Confessions of a …
When Sam tries to have fun in the sun, everything she tries leads to trouble. But soon she finds a smelly dead fish to roll in and suddenly the beach seems like a much better place to be. This Level 1 first reader contains short stories, simple sentences, easy vocabulary, simple visual clues and lots of repetition.
One morning, Joe wakes up to find two young grizzly bears in his bedroom. Throughout the day, all around the house, they play together - climbing trees in the hall, playing rough and tumble in the snow, playing on till the end of the day, till happy and tired Joe curls up in bed again.
The Wolf is bored in his forest until one day he has with a brilliant idea: how about traveling? He always wanted to travel around the world. Here he goes to Italy, Egypt, Africa, China, and many more countries. Will he come back just the same?
Today is the last day of kindergarten. I wish it were the FIRST. Then I’d meet Mrs. Popinski all over again. A little girl is sad that kindergarten is coming to an end. She wishes it were the first day again, when everything was exciting and new and there was such a fun year ahead. But then she realizes that graduating is exciting, too, and maybe first grade won’t be so bad, after all! Brig…
Wild and Wooly, brother and sister, dig through the sand until they reach the North Pole and then begin a long journey home through many magical kingdoms. Along the way they meet Father Christmas, the Good Fairy, a prince, a mermaid, a pirate king, and a gypsy fortuneteller.
Think and discuss: Ice cream is made from milk. What else is made from milk?
As a grandmother tucks her grandson into bed, she soothes his wondering mind with quiet replies to his every question. Lindbergh's gentle bedtime poem follows their loving dialogue from the sun and the moon to the wind and the rain. As full of real explanations as it is calming and lyrical. Full color.