Kids Books
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Kids Books
Just Like Daddy
$9.50 Add to cartJohnny can’t carry the heavy grocery bags like Daddy, but he can carry the diaper bag (though it does get a little wet!) Johnny isn’t brave enough to chase away the mean dog, but he can chase away that strange black and white “cat.” Johnny isn’t tall enough to reach the flowers Daddy picked for Mother, but he can reach the yellow ones on the ground. Every day of the week, Johnny watches his daddy and tries to be just like him. Heartwarming pencil drawings illustrate this book by the author of the Pleasant Valley Farm series.
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Environment
Sunshine Makes the Seasons
$10.15 Add to cartRead and find out about how sunshine makes the seasons in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.
The sun shines down on us, giving warmth and light. But did you know that the sun also makes the seasons? As the earth makes one complete rotation around the sun every year, the seasons on the earth change—from winter to spring to summer to fall and back to winter again. Find out how the light from the sun affects life on earth for all living things in this look at the only star in our solar system.
This clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom, features fascinating sidebars and diagrams and clear text. It also includes a find out more section with a simple experiment that allows kids to make their own orbiting model with an orange and a pencil.
This is a Level 2 Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:
- hands-on and visual
- acclaimed and trusted
- great for classrooms
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Kids Books
Pioneer Projects
$9.95 Add to cartSettlers had to make whatever they could not find or afford to buy. Pioneer Projects brings these crafts to life for children. Many authentic activities are presented with step-by-step instructions for children, parents, and teachers to follow.
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Energy, Light, Sound
Energy Makes Things Happen
$8.95 Add to cartRead and find out about energy in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.
Did you know that energy comes from the food you eat? From the sun and wind? From fuel and heat? You get energy every time you eat. You transfer energy to other things every time you play baseball.
In this book, you can find out all the ways you and everyone on earth need energy to make things happen.
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History
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War
$16.80 Add to cartMichel Chikwanine was five years old when he was abducted from his school-yard soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become a soldier for a brutal rebel militia. Against the odds, Michel managed to escape and find his way back to his family, but he was never the same again. After immigrating to Canada, Michel was encouraged by a teacher to share what happened to him in order to raise awareness about child soldiers around the world, and this book is part of that effort. Told in the first person and presented in a graphic novel format, the gripping story of Michel’s experience is moving and unsettling. But the humanity he exhibits in the telling, along with Claudia Dávila’s illustrations, which evoke rather than depict the violent elements of the story, makes the book accessible for this age group and, ultimately, reassuring and hopeful. The back matter contains further information, as well as suggestions for ways children can help. This is a perfect resource for engaging youngsters in social studies lessons on global awareness and social justice issues, and would easily spark classroom discussions about conflict, children’s rights and even bullying. Michel’s actions took enormous courage, but he makes clear that he was and still is an ordinary person, no different from his readers. He believes everyone can do something to make the world a better place, and so he shares what his father told him: “If you ever think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.”
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Canadian Social Studies
A Day with Yayah
$24.10 Add to cartSet in the Okanagan, BC, a First Nations family goes on an outing to forage for herbs and mushrooms. Grandmother passes down her knowledge of plant life to her young grandchildren.
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Animals/Bugs
Ant Cities
$8.95 Add to cartDid you ever wonder where an ant goes when it disappears into an anthill? Underneath the hill, there are miles of tunnels and hundreds of rooms! With simple, easy-to-understand words and colorful illustrations, Arthur Dorros explains the life of a harvester ant for the early reader and even shows readers how to build their own ant farms!
This is a Stage 2 Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades. Let’s-Read-And-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science / Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.
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Kids Books
Anna Banana and the Sleepover Secret
$5.95 Add to cartAnna wrestles with a big secret at Isabel’s super-fun sleepover in the seventh book of this “fast-paced, fun, and funny” (Megan McDonald, bestselling author of the Judy Moody series) illustrated chapter book series about the joys and challenges of elementary school friendships.
Anna and her friends love having sleepovers. So, when Isabel invites Anna and Sadie to spend the night at her house for the first time Anna can’t wait! Between pranking Isabel’s older sisters, make-your-own pizzas, and truth or dare this is going to be the best night ever.
But when one of Isabel’s older sisters’ dares results in Anna breaking a really special vase, everything stops being all fun and games. Isabel’s sisters convince the girls they can hide it from their parents, but after her friends fall asleep, Anna lies on the floor in her sleeping bag, wide awake.
At night, with the lights out and everyone else sleeping, Isabel’s house seems different. Unfamiliar. Not like home. Anna misses Banana terribly, and worst of all she feels really guilty keeping what happened a secret. If Anna doesn’t stay at the sleepover, everyone might get mad at her for ruining it, but if she stays and lets the secret slip about the broken vase, everyone might get mad at her for that instead. Anna and her friends share all their secrets, but can they help her with her secret dilemma?
