This informational book is all about learning why certain features are on animals and there use. 25 animals explain why they look the way they do. This book is set up in a question answer format that has someone ask an animal a question and the animal answers. An example question is "Dear horned frog: Your mouth is ginormous. Why so big?" Read this book to find out the answer!
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Author: Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
Illustrator: Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN: 9780544233515
This informational book is all about discovering animal habitats around the world. This book helps readers learn how animals grow and thrive in their different environments. This book is also interactive because it has readers search for camouflaged animals in their surroundings.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Author: Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
Illustrator: Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 9780618507641
This informational book won the Caldecott honor in 2004! This book has kids try and guess which animal each part belongs to throughout the book. It also questions the different things that animals do with different parts of their body like nose, ears, tail, etc. It is a very interactive fun way to learn more about animals.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Author: Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
Illustrator: Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 9780618256280
This fantasy book is about an orphaned boy, James, living with two nasty aunts. James finds a way to escape his miserable life by climbing in a giant peach that he created after spilling magic crystals he got from a mysterious man on his aunts' peach tree. Once entering the peach he meets what will become his new sense of family; magically overgrown insects: a ladybug,a spider, a grasshoper, a glowworm, a silkwork, and a centipede. They have many adventures that take place in a giant peach like going across the Atlantic Ocean to even a parade in NYC! This book is a wonderful story that never gets old reading!
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Puffin Books
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 9780140374247
This fantasy book is about how a boy named Charlie who found a golden ticket in a Willy Wonka Chocolate Bar. There were a total of five golden tickets that let five lucky children into Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory. The other children are very greedy and spoiled and not kind like Charlie and find themselves having an early exit to the chocolate factory. It is Charlie who remains and Willy Wonka says he is the winner and the whole day was a contest. Charlie's prize is the entire chocolate factory!! This book is great to teach children how it is not good to be greedy and it will only hurt oneself in the long run.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Puffin Books
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 9780141301150
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This fantasy children's book is about a girl named Matilda who is a sweet girl that has mean parents that are uninterested in her. She does play tricks on her parents like putting superglue in her Dad's hat, but finds some peace at home because she taught herself to read and loves books. She thought school would be an escape from her mean parents, but there she faces the two hundred pound kid hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull. When Miss Trunchbull tries to attack Matilda is when Matilda discovers she has powers and can move things! Matilda also befriended her teacher Miss Honey. Matilda uses her powers to defeat Miss Trunchbull and her parents decide to move away and Matilda was able to convince her parents to let her stay with Miss Honey. This book helps to show the importance of education and when one puts their mind to it they can accomplish anything.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Puffin Books
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 9780141301068
This realistic fiction book won a Caldecott Honor! It is about how one day at a family picnic a stray dog appeared. The little boy and girl play with the dog all day and name him Willie. They leave without Willie, but think about him all week. They go back Saturday to see Willie again but he is getting chased by the dog catcher! The little boy and girl chase after Willie and claim the dog as their own. Then Willie lived happily ever after with the family.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Author: Marc Simont
Illustrator: Marc Simont
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 9780060289331
