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Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375833358 |
As Good as Anybody
by Richard Michelson& Wendy Masi
In this picture book a parallel is draw between Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel and their quest for justice and equality.
The childhoods of Martin Jr. and Abraham Heschel are shown with Martin's sense of injustice at the "whites only" signs. His parents encouragement through telling him that he was "as good as anybody." Abraham's childhood is shown in Europe and the barring of Jews from public places. Abraham's parents also told him he was "as good as anyone." The book tells how both men became friends and marched side-by-side for freedom and equality.
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Martin Luther King, Jr Activities |
David Fickling Books
ISBN: 0385751192
Ages 5-8 |
Uneversaurus
Written by Aidan Potts
"Trying to guess what color dinosaurs were...is like chasing the end of the rainbow."
Professor Potts takes children on a colorful investigation of Dinosaurs, of what is known and what one can only guess about the reptiles. From fossils to putting them together, to what their skin looked like, and how their muscles moved.
Beautiful colorful illustrations with small comic book asides by Professor Pott's and input from dinosaurs makes an informative and fun book that encourages thinking and imaginations.
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by John Nickle
Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375835989
Ages 3-8
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Alphabet Explosion!:
Search and Count from Alien to Zebra
by John Nickle
It's an alphabet explosion!
Can you find them all?
A combination of an alphabet book with a search-and-find picture puzzle. You are given a number of items to look for that starts with a particular letter, 22 things begin with the letter "A", 19 start with "H", and there are 47 items that begin with "S". Puzzle book fans will enjoy this book provided they have a firm grasp of the alphabet and letter sounds.
Answer keys are provided in the back of the book. |
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Katy and the Big Snow
By Virginia L Burton
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Katy and the Big Snow
By Virginia L Burton
Katy, the brave and untiring tractor who pushes a bulldozer in the
summer and a snowplow in the winter, saves the day when she plows out
the city of Geoppolis after a big blizzard. Age 4 to 8
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Katy
and the Big Snow Teacher CyberGuide
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Cloudy with a Chance
of Meatball
By Judi Barrett
Ages 4 to 8
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
By Judi Barrett
Grab your plates! In the land of Chewandswallow, meals - rather than
rain or snow - fall from the sky. But something goes awry: the food
falling from the sky gets larger and larger, causing the residents to
make an escape before being squashed by giant pancakes or rolls.
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Cloudy
With a Chance of Meatballs Teacher CyberGuide
Cloudy
with a chance of meatballs:
Year-long project :
College of Education
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By Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Age: 5-8
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Snowflake Bentley (Caldecott Medal Book)
By Jacqueline Briggs Martin
A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of
individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.
From the time he was a small boy, Wilson Bentley thought of the icy
crystals as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera
would capture for others the wonder of the tiny crystals.
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Snowflake
Bentley
Literature
Guide
The
Snowflake Bentley website. This site gives additional
biographical information about Wilson A. Bentley and about his life's work
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