Demolition

Citation:- Sutton, Sally and  Lovelock, Brian (ill.). Demolition, Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press,  2012.

 

Annotation: Sally Sutton is New Zealand Children's Author. The author of books such as Road Works, Demolition, Farmer John's Tractor, Crazy Kiwi Tops and Tails. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1973. Brian Lovelock is a children's book illustrator and geothermal scientist working in the power industry in New Zealand."Roadworks" is his first picture book.  His titles with Walker Books include Your Mother Didn’t t Do That!, The Rain Train and Roadwork’s, which won the Picture Book category at the 2009 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.

This is the New Zealand fiction book and stories in rhyme picture book. It is for young children. The book gives information about big machines and their drivers work together to tear down a building a great book for active boys and girls describes the demolition of an old building to make way for a new playground.The rhyming text describes what each machine does, rather than stating what it is or how it looks.The illustrations are fantastic and have an interesting. Each brightly colour page is full of motion, energy, and great demolition to exclaim over. Cute book about construction vehicles, which is always a popular topic with young ones. The illustrations are nice, and the rhymes are fun. Tone is noisy. The last page includes "Machine Facts,” which is interesting for kids.

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Sally Sutton-

 sally.sutton@xtra.co.nz

Award Winners-

• ALA Notable Children's Books - Younger Readers Category: 2013

Grab and Go Book Lists- 

• Community Roles -- Community Helpers: Fiction for Grades K-2

Readers Advisory-

• Best Practices: Early Literacy Grows Story Lovers

Recommended Reads- 

• Working Machines

Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow

 Citation:-Shea, Susan A. and Slaughter, Tom, 1955- (ill.). Do you know which ones will grow?, Maplewood, NJ: Blue Apple Books, 2011.

Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? is  Shea’s first novel. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband. The book is illustrated by Tom Slaughter. He is New York City-based artist. This is a book that compares objects. It teaches children the difference between things that will grow and things that will not grow. For example a stool cannot grow, while a duckling grows into a duck. Poses rhyming questions about what grows and what does not. This book has bright colours, fun illustrations, and nice rhyming pattern and lift the flaps. This is a fun and interesting book that helps children learn things that will grow and things that will not grow. It is written in a way that it asks questions to the children. The book has colourful pictures and many of the pages actually fold out.This book's simple design is very appealing. It is for young children.

 Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? is a nominee for the 2013 Utah’s Beehive Award which is given to books that motivate and inspire young people to read more.

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Author website:
Shea, Susan A.-
Tom Slaughter


Award Winners-

• ALA Notable Children's Books - Younger Readers Category: 2012

Curricular Connections-

• Mission: Main Idea

Grab and Go Book Lists-

• Living and Non-Living : Fiction for Grades K-2

 

Goodnight, Goodnight, Constuction Site

Citation:Rinker, Sherri Duskey and Lichtenheld, Tom (ill.).Goodnight, goodnight, construction site, San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books 2011.

 

Annotation:Author Sherri Rinker lives in Chicago. Children's book author and illustrator Tom Lichtenheld writes for kids who love to laugh and adults who love to laugh along with them.
Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction site,” is a book gives information of many different types of construction site trucks. The poems tells how each truck goes about their day and prepares for the night. This is the story of what the trucks and equipment do when the sun goes down on the construction site.Story is simple and interesting. As the day winds down, the trucks complete their final tasks. The crane truck lifts and settles one more beam. The cement mixer pours out its last load. The story follows those big trucks and others such as dump trucks, bulldozers, and excavators all fascinating to young children as they shut down for the day, satisfied with a job well-done. The large wax oil pastel illustrations create a peaceful setting as night approaches that compares with the motion-filled illustrations that show the trucks hard at work during the day. This book is for young children. This story tone is whimsical. Illustration is cartoony.

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Rinker, Sherri Duskey-
 Tom Lichtenheld-

Award Winners

• ALA Notable Children's Books - Younger Readers Category: 2012

• No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List (on the list for over a year)
• USA Today Best Selling Books of 2012
• Selected for Common Sense Media's "Essential Books for Kids and Teens"
• Outstanding Achievement by a Wisconsin Author/Illustrator, Wisconsin Library Association
• 2013 Illinois Reads Selection, Illinois Reading Council
• 2012 E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Award Featured in New York Times 2011 Holiday Gift Guide
• PAL (Play Advances Language) 2011 Top Ten Books
• Indie Bestseller List
• Great Lakes Great Reads 2011 List
• Selection, 2011 Society of Illustrators Exhibit, New York
• Association for Library Service to Children, Notable Children's Picture Books 2012 nominee
• Texas Library Association 2 x 2 Reading List selection
• An Indie Best Seller Illustrated Children's Books (22 weeks in the top 15)
• ChildrensBookGuide.com Best Children's Books of 2011 selection Indies Choice Nominee
• Society of Illustrators 2011 Original Children's Book Art Show selection

Readers' Advisory

• October 2012 Display Idea - Vrooom! Chug! Roar! Books about Big Machines

Recommended Reads

• Working Machines

 

Green

Citation: Seeger, Laura Vaccaro. Green, New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2012.

 

Annotation:- Laura Vaccaro Seeger is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator and a two time winner of the Caldecott Honor Award, winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book, and a 2-time winner of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award. She is also the recipient of the Empire State Award for “Body of Work and Contribution to Children’s Literature”. Laura lives in Rockville Centre, New York, with her husband, Chris, their two sons, Drew and Dylan, and their dog, Copper, the star of her "Dog and Bear" series.

This story tells about Green colour. There are many shades of the colour green are used, like the lush green of a forest on a late spring day, the vivid aquamarine of a tropical sea green, the fresh juicy of a just cut lime green, pea green, khaki green, jungle green, fern green, wacky green, slow green, faded green, glow green, shaded green, all green, never green, no green, forever green etc. Illustrations is simple.Rhyming text explore the many shades of the colour green. Illustration is Inventive; Lavish.

 

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Laura Vaccaro Seeger

 

 

 Award Winners-

• 2013 Caldecott Honor Book
• American Library Association Notable Children’s Book, 2013
• New York Times Best Seller
• A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2012
• A Booklist Best Book of 2012
• A Kirkus Best Book of 2012
• A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2012
• A New York Public Library Best Book for Giving and Sharing, 2012
• Parents Magazine 10 Best Books of 2012 selection
• Children’s Book of the Month Club selection
• A Bank Street College of Education Best Book of 2012
• A CCBC Choices Best Book of 2012
• Capitol Choices 2013 Noteworthy Book for Children
• Winner – 2013 Giverny Award
• ALA Notable Children's Books - Younger Readers Category: 2013
• Booklist Editors' Choice - Books for Youth - Young Readers Category: 2012

  

 

 



I Love to Sing

Citation:- Walker, Anna. I love to sing, New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011.

 

Annotation:- "I love to sing" book Illustrated by the author Anna Walker. Also she is the author and illustrator of the I Love series, lives in Melbourne, Victoria. She completed a degree in Graphic Design in 1994 before becoming a freelance illustrator. Anna's illustrations have enjoyed international success in a broad range of products, from greeting cards to Christmas decorations. Anna's work has gained recognition in regular exhibitions and a Melbourne Art Directors Club award for best illustration.

 This story tells about a zebra named Ollie celebrates the joys of singing in the bathtub, in the park and with his  dog Fred.  Ollie is a gentle zebra who   shares his love for singing in many ways. In rhymed text, Ollie explains, "I love to sing on my chair. I love to sing on my stair. I love to sing in the rain and the sun, and with my brother, I love to sing with ducks,  just for fun." Ollie's world always start with  singing a happy song. This sweet and simple story for young children. It is the colourful picture book and hand written text by Anna Walker.

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Walker, Anna

 

Award Winners-

• Children's Book Council of Australia: Notable Australian Children's Books: Early Childhood

 

King Hugo's huge ego

Citation:-Van Dusen, Chris. King Hugo's huge ego, Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press,  2011.

Annotation:-Chris Van Dusen is the author-illustrator of The Circus Ship and the illustrator of the best-selling Mercy Watson books by Kate DiCamillo. About King Hugo’s Huge Ego, he says, "Arrogance is a trait I’ve always deplored, and yet I have to admit that sometimes my own ego can become a bit inflated. Luckily I have a wonderful wife who acts as a Tessa to my occasional Hugo." Chris Van Dusen lives in Maine with his family.(Blurb on book cover)This is a picture book for young children. This book language is lyrical, rhyming Tone is funny. Hugo is a tiny king who is very arrogant, and is eventually cursed by a witch so that his head would grow physically larger with each egotistical thing he said about himself. His head becomes massive, and he demands the witch remove the curse. When she explains why she put it on him, he claims to be humble. He then has all the arrogant things he's said about himself expelled from his ears, deflating his head and causing him embarrassment at the things he's said. He humbly apologizes to the witch, who he then marries and makes his queen. When haughty King Hugo tangles with a sorceress, she causes him to see himself in a more realistic light. This picture book some-times fairy-tale, sometimes cautionary, and always laugh-out-loud funny.(Blurb on book cover)

This colourful picture book for young children.Rhyming text and great moral to the story, this book provides a humorous look at arrogance.

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Author website:

Chris Van Dusen

Award Winners-

• Treasure State Award (Montana)

LMNO PEAS

Citation:-Baker, Keith, 1953- LMNO peas, New York: Beach Lane Books, 2010.

 

Annotation:-LMNO peas is the story illustrated by the author Keith Baker. He has written and illustrated many  picture books for young children, including My Octopus Arms, the New York Times bestselling LMNO Peas, 1-2-3 Peas, No Two Alike, Big Fat Hen, Who Is the Beast?, and Potato Joe. He lives in Seattle, Washington. This story Tone is upbeat. Illustration is textured. This alphabet picture book for young children.This book LMNO peas introduces each letter as a large, colourful shape surrounded by tiny pea creatures, green circles with arms, legs, eyes, mouths, and occasionally accessories such as hats, diving masks or flippers. The pea folk demonstrate occupations and actions beginning with each letter and identified in the rhyming, rhythmic text. The letters L, M, N, and O, which so often run meaninglessly together in the alphabet song, appear on the same double-page spread. Busy little peas introduce their favourite occupations, from astronaut to zoologist.

 
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Award Winners-

• ALA Notable Children's Books - Younger Readers Category: 2011

Grab and Go Book Lists-

• Community Roles -- Community Helpers : Fiction for Grades K-2

Recommended Reads-

• ABCs

 

Look see, look at me!

Citation:- Norrington, Leonie and Huxley, Dee ( ill.). Look see, look at me, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2010.

Annotation:-The author of “Look see, look at me" Leonie Norrington was born in Darwin, the third of nine children, and grew up at Barunga Aboriginal community, south of Katherine. Leonie Norrington is a successful children’s author and television presenter. She is the State Finalist Australia's Local Hero 2012. Leonie Norrington is a successful children’s author and television presenter but her career path was anything but conventional. Her childhood spanned two cultures that were worlds apart the culture of the Barunga community where she lived and her Irish Catholic heritage. So her education, way of life and spirituality were steeped in both the Aboriginal and western cultures. She discovered her talent as a story-teller; a talent she has harnessed to help Aboriginal people find their own voice through the written word. Now an award winning children’s author, her books are a reflection of her childhood and the ability of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to live together in respect and trust, despite differences in cultural traditions Leonie is also well-known for her role as a presenter on ABC television’s Gardening Australia, where she shares her extensive knowledge of organic horticulture. Leonie Norrington grew up at Barunga Aboriginal community. Her previous children's books include The Barrumbi Kids, Croc Bait, The Devil You Know, and The Spirit of Barrumbi.
 Dee Huxley’s gorgeous, free-flowing illustrations capture a story that is perfect for reading and acting aloud. She is the illustrator of such children's picture books as Chance; Come Out, Come Out and Limpopo Lullaby.
This story tells us a young child is excited for all of the things he can do now that he is three years old. “Look, see, look at me, I’m so much bigger now I’m three.”(Blurb on the book cover)
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Author website:
Leonie Norrington
 
Award Winners-

• Children's Book Council of Australia: Notable Australian Children's Books: Early Childhood
• Children's Book Council of Australia: Notable Australian Children's Books: Picture Books

   

Miss Lina's ballerinas

Citation:- Maccarone, Grace and Davenier, Christine ( ill.). Miss Lina's ballerinas, New York: Feiwel and Friends,  2010.

Annotation:- Grace Maccarone is a children’s book editor and the author of many books for young readers, including Miss Lina’s Ballerinas .Christine Davenier is a published author and an illustrator of children's books.

Miss Lina's ballerinas is the picture books for children. Pink colour pencil and pastel colour used for illustrations for ballerina. Simple rhyming text used for this book. This book story telling about eight little girls that studied dance with Miss Lina. Christina, Edwina, Sabrina, Justina, Katerina, Bettina, Marina, and Nina in pink head to toe, practiced all day. They danced doing maths,  while they read, they danced into bed, at the park, and at the zoo. They even danced at the beach and while shopping in four lines of two. One day, a girl named Regina arrived to the dance studio. Then Miss Lina's eight ballerinas turned into nine. The girls worried what would they do, they no longer could dance in four lines of two. The girls were all baffled and mixed-up. Miss Lina then told them they will soon see how delightful it is to be in three rows of three. So in three rows of three they practiced all day, danced while they read, did math, went to bed, at the park, at the beach, and while shopping. So everything was perfect even though now there was nine, dancing in three rows of three was just divine for Christina, Edwina, Sabrina, Justina, Karina, Bettina, Marina, and Nina who danced all day long with their new friend Regina. Ballet instructor Miss Lina has a solution when her eight students, who always dance in pairs, are distraught when a ninth girl joins the class. 

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Award Winners-

• Booklist Editors' Choice - Books for Youth - Young Readers Category: 2010

Recommended Reads-

• Counting

 

No two alike

Citation:- Baker, Keith, 1953- No two alike, New York: Beach Lane Books, 2011.

Annotation:-Keith Baker is the author-illustrator, he lives in Seattle, Washington.  He has written and illustrated many acclaimed picture books for young children, including My Octopus Arms, the New York Times bestselling LMNO Peas, 1-2-3 Peas, No Two Alike, Big Fat Hen, Who Is the Beast?, and Potato Joe. 
This story telling about a pair of birds and their snowflake-filled journey through a winter landscape, where everything everywhere, from branches and leaves to forests full of trees, is unique. The birds look at things that are all very similar and almost alike, but still are different. The book text gives the messages that even if someone seems to be a part of a larger group they are still not all the same and should be seen as an individual. Two birds are flying through the forest and compares things to their surroundings. No two things are alike. This story book tone is sweet. Writing Style is spare. It has detailed and wonderful illustrations, as well as, a good rhyming quality. It is for young children.

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Award Winners-

• Booklist Editors' Choice - Books for Youth - Young Readers Category: 2011

Recommended Reads-

• Winter

 
  

Noni the Pony

Citation- Lester, Alison. Noni the pony, New York: Beach Lane Books, 2012.

Annotation:- Alison Lester, born on 17 November 1952. She is an Australian author and illustrator. She has published over 25 children's picture books and 2 young adult novels.
This is the noni the pony picture book for pre-schoolers. This book illustrated by the author Lester Alison. 

Noni the Pony is a simple, rhyming story about Noni. She is a friendliest pony. It has a shimmering, honey-coloured tail. She lives on a farm overlooking the sea   with the hens and the ducks. Her best friends are Dave the Dog and Coco the Cat who run and play and jump over the creek. And like a good friend, Noni is always careful that no one gets left behind, that if thunder frightens her friends, she cuddles them close and tells them stories to help them be brave, and when she gets spooked by the rustling leaves at night, all she has to do is snuggle in for a song with her best friends and soon she will be sleeping all night long. 

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Award Winners-

• Australian Book Industry Awards: Book of the Year for Younger Children
• Children's Book Council of Australia: Notable Australian Children's Books: Early Childhood

Recommended Reads-

• Best Younger Kids Fiction 2012
• Farm Animals

 

 

Oh, No!

Citation:-Fleming, Candace and Rohmann, Eric (ill.). Oh, no!, New York: Schwartz & Wade Books,  2012.


Annotation:-  This is the picture book Oh, no! for youngsters. Illustration is lavish. Tone is noisy, suspenseful of this book.
 Candace Fleming is the author of more than twenty children’s books. She started storytelling at an early age. As a pre-schooler, Candace Fleming is an author who specializes in both young children's books and fun, historical books for kids.
Eric Rohmann was born in Riverside, Illinois Grove, a suburb of Chicago. Eric Rohmann is an author and illustrator of books for young readers. His book Time Flies received a Caldecott Honor award and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Fleming’s bouncing rhymes and repeated lines. Children will delight in repeating the refrain "OH, NO!" as one animal after another falls into a deep, deep hole in this lively read-aloud.
This is a series of jungle animals Elephants, Holes, Tigers, falls into a deep hole, only to be saved at last by a very large rescuer. 
 

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Award winners:

• ALA Notable Children's Books - Younger Readers Category: 2013


•  Parents' Choice Awards - Picture Books: 2013


• School Library Journal Best Picture Books: 2012

 Curricular Connections-

• Books for Multi-age Story times

Feature Articles-

• Summer Reading: Dig into Reading! (Younger Kids)

Grab and Go Book Lists-

•  Character Education: Cooperation: Fiction and Nonfiction for Grades K-2
• Read-Alouds for Grade 1

 Recommended Reads

•  Younger Kids -> Animal Stories -> Rainforest and Jungle Animals

 

 

 

 

   

Ten Little Caterpillars

Citation:-Martin, Bill, 1916-2004 and Ehlert, Lois ( ill.) Ten little caterpillars, New York: Beach Lane Books,  2011.

  Annotation:-Bill Martin Jr, an elementary-school principal, teacher, writer, and poet, held a doctoral degree in early childhood education. Lois Ehlert's illustrations are very good. She has illustrated other Martin, Jr. books.
This picture book is “Ten little caterpillars” for youngsters. It is  stories in rhyme.   
This book has very colourful and big and bold illustrations and is also informative by labelling all the illustrations in the book. It is also a rhyming and a counting book which will keep the children interested.This beautifully illustrated book story follows ten caterpillars, each one a different species, on their journey towards becoming butterflies. The closing pages feature wonderful pictures matching each species of caterpillar with the type of butterfly they become. Ten Little Caterpillars is a good book to introduce numbers. Ten little caterpillars are on the move, One by one, they wriggle up flowers, climb cabbages, get carried off to school. But the last little caterpillar, the luckiest of the bunch, manages to crawl up an apple tree and attach himself to a branch. There, he spins his cocoon, he emerges as a beautiful butterfly. Ten little caterpillars creep and crawl through gardens, vegetable patches, and apple orchards.The pictures by Lois Ehlert are watercolour collages against a white background to focus on the flowers, mostly the caterpillars. Occasionally, creatures commonly in the habitats are included like ants, spiders, frogs, birds, and beetles. It has each item in the pictures is labelled to build vocabulary and sight word recognition.

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Award Winners

• ALA Notable Children's Books - Younger Readers Category: 2012

Feature Articles

• Great Gift Books, 2011

Recommended Reads

• Insects and Spiders

 
 

The Three Ninja Pigs

Citation:-Schwartz, Corey Rosen and Santat, Dan ( ill.). The three ninja pigs, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2012.

Annotation:-This is a the traditional Japanese background story and telling about the three little pigs. This picture book “Three Ninja Pigs” for young children and it’s in stories in rhyme. Tone is Amusing. Illustration is detailed. It is fun, and witty, and it also rhymes. It has a good message about working hard.  The pigs are tired of the wolf and decide to learn martial arts to finally get rid of him. The first pig studies for two weeks and quits. The second pig makes it through the complete first set of lessons, but the third pig studies for "months" to get ready. Things run their typical course, until the end.This is fractured fairy-tale of the Three Little Pigs. It is fun, and witty, and it also rhymes and has a good message about working hard. 
In this twist on the three Pigs tale, Pig One and Two neglect their ninja school martial arts training and are no match for the wolf, but Pig Three's practice and dedication saves the day. Also in this book includes glossary of Japanese martial arts terms. 

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Award Winners-

• Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Awards: Transitional Fiction (Grades 2-4)- The Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award was created in 2004 in an attempt to stimulate interest in books for the beginning reader and the emergent independent reader. The award's purpose is to identify and promote the best fiction and nonfiction books published at the K-2nd grade reading level (early readers) and at the 2nd-4th grade reading level (transitional readers), both for children reading at grade level and for reluctant older reader.

Grab and Go Book Lists

• Fractured Fairy Tales: Three Little Pigs: Fiction for Grades 3-5 

 

 

When I Grow Up

 Citation:-Yankovic, Al, 1959- and Hargis, Wes ( ill.). When I grow up, New York: Harper,  2011.

Annotation:-Author Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic was born October 23, 1959. He grew up in Lynnwood, California. He is well-known for America’s popular music and culture, "Weird Al" Yankovic has had almost as many careers like Billy can dream of. Advised by his father to do whatever made him happy, he has accordingly been a comedian,singer,songwriter,music producer, actor, director, and writer often all at the same time. Mr.Yankovic has won three Grammy Awards and has sold more comedy recordings than anyone else in history. This is his first children's book. He has also written two children's books, When I Grow Up and My new Teacher and Me!  Mr.Hargis has been an illustrator for more than fifteen years. He lives with his family  in Arizona.

“When I grow up "is the picture book for preschool children. This book story telling about eight-year-old Billy and his imagination. This book is realistic and colourful and watercolour used for ink illustrations. The rhyme was terrific and funny. Storyline of this book is excellent. Little Billy is supposed to tell the class what he'd like to be when he grows up. The only problem is that he has a ton of ideas and takes up the whole class period telling them about it.He imagines himself as a famous chef, a snail-trainer in the circus, or a lathe operator as a career types. He moves on, "for laughs," to a giraffe-milker, a gorilla masseuse, a rodeo clown, and many, many more possibilities. Finally his teacher, Mrs. Krupp, calls a halt. When pressed for a decision, Billy notes that he'd like to keep his options open.Hargis's comic details using colour drawings begin on the jacket, where Billy stands on a bulldozer wearing a fireman's hat and carrying a wrench.This is very good book for character imagination and younger children dreams. 

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Award Winners-

• Goodreads Choice Awards: 2011- The Good reads Choice Awards are the only major book awards decided by readers.