BOOK SUGGESTIONS & REVIEWS
- Suggested Books and Activities (curry.edschool.virginia.edu)
- A Book A Week (curry.edschool.virginia.edu)
101 BEST BOOKS (taken from 101 Best Books For Children (pdf list))
| BOOK | GENRE | USE |
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Story | Predictable Text Rhyming |
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ABC Book | Guessing Element |
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ABC Book | Alphabet Animals |
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Info Book | Science - Biology Suggestions for Children |
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Info Book Recount |
Fall Growing |
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Story | Science |
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Story | Foods We Eat Feelings |
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Info Book | Baking |
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Recount | Predictable Text & Colors |
| Info Book, Recount |
Sculpey Clay pictures Colors Farm |
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Story | Bed Time Feelings - fear |
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Story | Predictable Text Acting Out |
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Wordless, Story |
Language Development Block Play |
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Info/Recount | Sequence |
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Poetry | Predictable Text Months of the Year |
 
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Chant | Rhyming text with excellent meter. Children to follow directions |
 
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Recount | Predictable Book |
| Corn-On and Off the Cob (Rookie Read-About Science) 
| Info Book | Farming, Native Americans |
 
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Counting Book/ Story |
Rhyming Text |
 
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Story | Remembering Study Phonemic Awareness |
 
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Alphabet Book | Rhyme, Alphabet |
 
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"I Spy" Book | Nursery Rhyme Predictable Text |
Eating Fractions
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Info Book, Math |
Math Food |
 
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Alphabet Book | Growing |
 
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Alphabet Book | Alphabet Farm Objects |
 
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Counting Book | Dinner Preparations Numbers Af-Am Family |
 
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Song | Farm Animals |
 
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Counting Book | Number Concepts |
 
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Info | Predictable Text Transportation Unit |
 
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Story | Winter Attention to Sound |
 
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Story | Sounds Kindergarten Transition |
 
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Info | Sequence Ice Cream |
 
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Folk Tale | Acting Out Story Structure |
 
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Wordless Story (mostly) |
Zoo Bed Time Language Development Compare/Contrast |
 
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Info | Holidays |
 
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Story | Echoes |
 
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Story | Imagination Crayon Unit |
 
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Story | Predictable Text Where's Waldo aspect |
 
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Info Book | Social Studies |
 
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Info Book | Planting suggestions Attention to different Seeds |
 
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Info Book | Growing Animals |
"I Can't" Said the Ant
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Story | Rhyming Text |
SERIES
Berenstain Bears
I love reading Berenstain Bears books to my girls and they love them as well. Not only are they fun to read, each one contains a great message that is important for young children to learn. They are a little long for very young children but my 2 1/2 year old will sit though as many as I read.
Little Critter Books
Another of my favorite series are the Little Critter Books. They are shorter than the Berenstain Bear books and use language young children can understand.
Clifford The Big Red Dog
Clifford the Big Red Dog are also fun books that children enjoy.
Curious George
This little curious monkey just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Things always turn out right in the end though.
Dr. Seuss
This list would never be complete without Dr. Seuss books. From Green Eggs and Ham to One Fish, Two Fish, these fun, nonsensical books will keep you coming back for more.
Fisher-Price Little People Books
I found these Fisher-Price Little People books at the library and checked them out for my 2 1/2 year old. At first I was a little nervous because they have flaps that you can lift and I was affraid the book would end up in pieces before the day was over. The flaps were pretty sturdy (unlike some books) and my daughter was so excited about lifting the flaps and seeing what was under them that she didn't even attempt to rip them off.
She loved these books! She was entertained by them for a long time. They are full of many things to look at and many things I can talk about with her.
Not only are these books filled with things to see, they also teach children many different things like colors, shapes, counting, matching and opposites.
This book teaches colors, shapes, counting, matching and pairing. |
This book teaches counting, shapes, animal sounds, colors and opposites. |
This book teaches action words, shapes and colors, counting, opposites and feelings. |
Sandra Boynton
I really like Sandra Boynton books. They are funny, the pictures are adorable and the rhymes are great.
PARENTING BOOKS
From Playpens to Proving Grounds is a book on discipline and natural consequences that was recommended to me. Although I have not read it yet I am told it is very good.
Here are several other parenting books. I can't really recommend any in particular since I haven't read any of them, but there are many options and resources out there for parents that are looking to get ideas on parenting their toddler or preschooler.
I would recommend the Parents Magazine to those parents looking for ideas on parenting. It comes monthly and has some great articles on parenting children ages 0-12 years.
ACTIVITY BOOKS
Peak with Books: An Early Childhood Resource for Balanced Literacy
This book has several activities that children can do using picture books as a base. Here is a link to some sample activities for each picture book.
Here are some books that are full of ideas for activities you can do with your toddler and/or preschooler. I especially like the "Busy Books". They have so many great ideas.
MORE BOOK REVIEWS
| The Top 7 Great Reasons to Use EBooks for Kids |
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An eBook is a book in an electronic format that is downloaded to a computer, laptop or PDA. It looks exactly like a book and has numbered pages, pictures, graphics and a table of contents. As the world becomes obsessed with electronic gadgets, eBooks are gaining popularity amongst adults and children.
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| Book Review: A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle |
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How do I begin writing a review of a book that tackles a subject a cannot fully comprehend? Mathematics and physics, anyone? But, I am getting ahead of myself.
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| Book Review for "The Lightning Thief" |
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Riordan fashions a modern tale of the Olympians that will keep you turning the pages with "The Lightning Thief." Percy Jackson is a 6th grader with a lot of problems. Diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, school isn't easy for him. His step-father is barely civil to him. Then there's a horde of monsters who want to kill him. Things only get more complicated when he discovers he's a son of Poseidon.
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| Development Book |
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People around the globe are always on the lookout for a development book on relationships with personal issues, healing traumas from the past, just to keep them sane and balanced in today's crazy and ruthless world. Such self help books are extremely popular in the market today. This only goes to show that there are an awful bunch of people out there who are not at ease with their relationships and are trying to improve them.
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| Book Review: If You're Reading This It's Too Late by Pseudonymous Bosch |
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What do you get when you combine a homunculus, an evil society and two brave kids? A fun story kids will love. But what should parents think?
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| A Review of Planet Dinosaur - The Next Generation of Giant Killers |
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Planet Dinosaur - Book Review The new dinosaur discoveries, the huge, the tiny, the weird and the wonderful are revealed in remarkable detail in this book "Planet Dinosaur - The Next Generation of Giant Killers" that has been produced to accompany the BBC television series. Team members were asked to write a review and true to our word here it is.
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| Book Review: The Bridge to Neverland by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson |
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A letter hidden in an old desk leads Sarah and Aidan to a box of starstuff and a startling discovery: Peter Pan is real! They run for their lives to protect the starstuff from the evil Lord Ombra. Will a scary villain who possesses ravens - and even people at times - be too much for your child?
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| Review of "Kelli and The Tooth Fairy" Storybook and Coloring Book |
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"Kelli and The Tooth Fairy" is a delightful and fanciful tale about a little girl and her experience with the Tooth Fairy when she lost her first tooth. Find out what happens that magical night when she waited for the Tooth Fairy to show up. She wanted to wait up but finally fell asleep. That's when her real adventure started.
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| 4 Tips For Writing Fantasy Stories |
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Do you feel overwhelmed because you never know how to come up with an opening line to your fantasy book? Most people feel a writer's block when they start writing their story because they do not know how to start.
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| Review of Michael Mouse's Treasure Box Storybook and Coloring Book |
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"Michael Mouse's Treasure Box" is a delightful storybook that can be colored. It details the adventures of Michael Mouse and his family. Michael collected treasures all last summer and this is the story of what happend to them and what Michael Mouse did to get those treasures back.
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| Alice in Wonderland Book Review |
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This write up is a brief review of the book Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carol. This review is about the classic written in 1982. It gives a brief summary of the story and highlights the strong points of the story.
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| New Year's Resolutions: Book List Recommendations for the New Year |
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We all at least give some thought to making New Year's resolutions whether we actually make them or not. This new year I would like to suggest some great children's and young adult books and stories for everyone whether you are a child, young adult or not. Reading great books is a great way to enjoy making resolutions.
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| Book Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak |
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This is a simple tale about a foster girl living in Hitler's Germany - who can't resist stealing books. The story is moving and engaging, but is all the profanity really necessary?
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| Review of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
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This story has been told and retold in so many different ways in movies and written words. Charles Dickens really did create a timeless tale when he wrote the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and the lessons he learned on that fateful night.
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| Book Review: You Have to Stop This |
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Cass and her friends rush to clear their names when a mummy goes missing. But will the creepy mummy... mild violence, Egyptian gods and magic turn off parents?
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