This week, Education World reviewsBullies and Gangs, The Ant Bully,andWhen Sophie Gets Angry -- Really, Really Angry...These three new picture books support classroom discussions of anger, bullying, violence, and tolerance. Most every child will be confronted by a bully at some time... But ...
books bound in tawny satins or fair blue silks and wrought with fleurs-de-lis, birds and images; veils of lacis worked in Hungary point; Sicilian brocades and stiff Spanish velvets; Georgian work, with its gilt coins, and Japanese Foukousas, with their green-toned golds and their...
It got me thinking about this type of story and what other picture books have unreliable narrators. I really gravitate toward this kind of storytelling, because it’s often funny and can make for a great read-aloud. Kids LOVE correcting the reader and having the opportunity to feel like, f...
Bottom line: it’s because we care about those kids and want to give them books they will love, hopefully books that will contribute to them becoming life-long readers. And even if the reality is that grownups are the people buying the books, the kids are the people who will demand (...
Be sure to see the women and girls in baseball books, below. You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Andre Carrilho. Koufax is a hero of my husband and son, so I had to include a book about the star of the Brooklyn Dodgers who fought against discrimination ...
This series of wordless picture therapy books aims to help children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) to develop their expressive sentence and narrative skills, through learning to tell each story. There are 10 stories that will be sep
But books, particularly children's books, seem more obviously didactic than do clothing and popular culture, which is, in part, why books can provoke passionate responses, both of enthusiasm and of anger. At stake in discussions about the educative value of particular books are both the "...
of winter, but Leo Lionni and Julie Hamilton's cheery illustrations will remind you that flowers and sunshine are just around the comer.When Sadness is at Your Door by Ev a Eland Kids often struggle to understand and cope with their emotions, especially the hard ones like anger and sadness....
MORE: Books about Lunar New Year Dumpling Soup by Jama Kim Rattigan, illustrated by Lillian Hsu Find it: Amazon | Bookshop Marisa Yang lives in a multicultural household in Hawai'i. Marisa is going to help make the dumplings for the New Year celebration but she worries that hers won't be...
For more children’s books about emotions for kids, check out our big list ofBooks About Feelings & Emotions. Corduroy by Don Freedmanshares the adventures of a small, soft toy bear named Corduroy who, after being left on the shelf by a discerning buyer, decides to search the store to fi...