Thank you to Lee and Low for providing a copy with #Collabookation. I love the concept of a buddy bench, where kids can sit when they need a friend, aThank you to Lee and Low for providing a copy with #Collabookation. I love the concept of a buddy bench, where kids can sit when they need a friend, and peers can come and join them to play. This early reader is a great introduction to the concept of the buddy bench and is approachable to young readers with its beginning chapter book format. Everyone wants to belong, and this book is a great way to introduce that concept to young readers....more
Thank you to Children's Book Press for providing a copy with #Collabookation. What I loved about this story is the history within it, especially the bThank you to Children's Book Press for providing a copy with #Collabookation. What I loved about this story is the history within it, especially the back-matter. This book explains the If I were to read this to a young child, I would start with the backmatter first and explain its importance prior to reading the story. The author embeds various Spanish words within this story, which is part of a series where Rafi and Rosi, brother and sister go through various journeys. This book revolves around music and how music can bring joy to us and others....more
Thank you to Lee and Low for providing a copy of this book with #Collabookation. This early reader brings 5 friends together from New York City. They Thank you to Lee and Low for providing a copy of this book with #Collabookation. This early reader brings 5 friends together from New York City. They decide to spend the day at Coney Island. Pablo talks his dad into taking them and begins to study their path of how to get there. With his love of maps, he studies the city map, the bus map, and eventually the Coney Island map. The group realizes how maps are beneficial in helping you plan a journey. I can see this story being a great addition to the introduction of various maps. Young readers need text that they can access, and this book does the job with the appropriate amount of text per page....more
Thank you to Candlewick Press for sharing a copy of this ARC with #collabookation. As a first grade teacher, my students have loved the previous 3 booThank you to Candlewick Press for sharing a copy of this ARC with #collabookation. As a first grade teacher, my students have loved the previous 3 books in this series so I was really excited to read the fourth edition. Publication date May, 2020. It's time to go on a camping trip with the Big City Scouts. Together, Ralphie, Louie, and Grandpa Ratso learn that is is important to ask for help when needed. Young readers will love this new edition to the series....more
Thank you to the author, Dee Romito, for providing an advanced copy of this story to #collabookation. Publish date May 2020. This is a great early reaThank you to the author, Dee Romito, for providing an advanced copy of this story to #collabookation. Publish date May 2020. This is a great early reader with themes of friendship, STEM, creativity, and young entrepreneurship. Caleb and Jax are excited to start their new business building forts for others. What they don't realize is that they need to design plan for their forts prior to building them so they know what materials they need, the cost, and can get approval from their customers prior to building. That's where Kiara gets involved. Their team of 2 ends up becoming a team of 4: Jax, Caleb, Eddie, and Kiara. Together, they become Fort Builder's, Inc. They troubleshoot everything that they are faced with when their first customer, Analise, comes along and requests a pink castle for a fort. Will they be able to successfully build such a detailed fort in the short amount of time they have before Analise's birthday? I cannot wait to share this story with my first graders once this book makes it through #collabookation. I have many students that will LOVE it, and book 2 in the series coming later in the year....more
Thank you to Abdo Publishing for providing a copy with #collabookation. This is a fun early reader for children. Carmen and Carlos come up with a planThank you to Abdo Publishing for providing a copy with #collabookation. This is a fun early reader for children. Carmen and Carlos come up with a plan to find a way to play with their friend. My students love sharing and teaching their peers words from their native language when they partner read this series....more
Thank you to Abdo Publishing for providing a copy with #collabookation. This is a fun early reader for children. Carmen and carlos get to go camping wThank you to Abdo Publishing for providing a copy with #collabookation. This is a fun early reader for children. Carmen and carlos get to go camping with their tío. After they set up camp, they go exploring only to come back to a surprise that leaves them without any dinner. Good thing the twins packed a special treat to save the day. My students love sharing and teaching their peers words from their native language when they partner read this series....more
Thank you to Lyla Lee for sending my students and I a copy of this ARC through a contest we won via Twitter. A copy was also shared with #collabookatiThank you to Lyla Lee for sending my students and I a copy of this ARC through a contest we won via Twitter. A copy was also shared with #collabookation. Thank you for that as well. My first graders were mesmerized with this story and the audible sigh of dismay occurred when I told them that they have to wait quite a bit of time before book 2 and 3 in the series come out. There was tears, laughter, and applause. Mindy Kim is a young girl who has had to deal with a lot of change in a short amount of time. Mindy's mom recently passed away. This is by no means a spoiler, because you learn this early in the book. Her dad is struggling with the aftermath of her death, while trying to hold it all together for Mindy. At the same time, he is transferred to Florida from California for his job. This means more change including a move, a new home, and a new school for Mindy. Mindy's new school is nowhere near as diverse as her previous school. She feels different and it only gets worse when kids start making fun of her lunch, including dried seaweed chips. Mindy decides she has to come up with a plan in order to make friends and this is when she comes up with her seaweed business. But her plan backfires and she learns who her true friends really are. O highly recommend this book as a read aloud for kinder and first graders and it is is perfect for second and third graders. Both my students and I cannot wait to meet Mindy again in book 2 and 3. This book is available in January of 2020 with books 2 and 3 soon to follow....more
Thank you to the author for providing a copy of The Stolen Slipper to #Collabookation ARC reading club. This book comes out in Dec. 2019 and is book 2Thank you to the author for providing a copy of The Stolen Slipper to #Collabookation ARC reading club. This book comes out in Dec. 2019 and is book 2 of the Once Upon a Fairy Tale series by Anna Staniszewski. I absolutely love the Scholastic Branches series that are being published for early readers, and this book just reaffirmed my love for them! In this story, Kara and Zed return for a new adventure involved Prince Patrick. Someone has stolen the Prince's glass slipper from his personal library, which he needs to locate the mysterious lady who got away and might be his one true love. Since Kara's comes from a family of shoe-makers, and Zed is a messenger for the Kingdom, they feel they are the perfect people to help with the search to find who took the glass slipper. Together, they devise a plan to find the mystery thief, in hopes to bring the Prince and his one true love back together. Young readers will love this story, as this early chapter book has short chapters, making it accessible to children who are ready to begin their journey into chapter books. Add in a bit of mystery, some fairy tale feeling and charm, and it is a perfect read. Great for children in grades 1st through 3rd grade or anyone looking for a cute mystery with a fairy tale feel....more
This is book #3 in the Arnold and Louise series. I read this aloud to my first graders and they loved this story. Arnold and Louse decide to celebrateThis is book #3 in the Arnold and Louise series. I read this aloud to my first graders and they loved this story. Arnold and Louse decide to celebrate "Fell", the season between fall and winter when all the leaves have fallen from the trees. Arnold is the calm, organized of the two, while Louise is the fast-paced, messy one. They decide to make Arnold's famous popcorn balls but to Arnold's dismay, Louise just makes a mess of everything. As a result, they decide to go make the largest pile of leaves ever, but every time Arnold gets close to making the perfect leaf hill, Louise decides to jump in and ruin it. The two get into an argument and decide they will do their activities by themselves, and they on their individual ways. As they both are working on their task, they realize it just isn't the same without their friend. Will the two work it out? Will they be able to be friends once again?
This story is sweet and one that children who are at the early reader stage will love. With short chapters and larger text, it is perfect for this age group. Themes appear about friendship, how to handle conflict, and the realization that it is okay that our friends are different from us, because that is what makes them special and friendships stronger. My students begged for me to read book 1 and 2 to them next week....more
Thank you to Capstone Publishing for providing #collabookation a copy of this to review and share. I am so excited to find an #ownvoices book with a SThank you to Capstone Publishing for providing #collabookation a copy of this to review and share. I am so excited to find an #ownvoices book with a Somali-American character in it. It is so important that children see themselves within texts, as well as learn about cultures different than their own. This is an early reader book, that is a great entry point for children who are starting to read beginning chapter books. If you are a fan of the Yasmin series, you will love this book and series as well. Sadiq and his friends are on a mission to raise money for a telescope, after visiting the observatory on a recent field trip. Little do they know how much telescopes cost. What can they do to accomplish their goal? You will have to read it to find out if their "mission" is accomplished. This book touches on themes of family as Sadiq explores his relationship with his father, family heritage, as well friendship. Throw in a little science about stars, and you have a fun story that will have children wanting to read the others in the series. Kids love series, so I am always looking for more early reader series to have so I can recommend them to children/students....more
Thank you to Picture Window Books for providing #collabookation with a copy to read and share! I loved this #ownvoices book and I truly think that kidThank you to Picture Window Books for providing #collabookation with a copy to read and share! I loved this #ownvoices book and I truly think that kids will, as well. It is super cute and great for any child at the early reader stage, who wants to start reading chapter books. Kaita and her family take in a foster dog, Truman, until the right family comes along. They live through all of the trials of having a new dog, including the good and the bad. After a few families weren't "just right", and some time, Kaita starts to become sad about the idea of Truman leaving their house. They have bonded and he has become part of the family. You will have to read this book to find out what happens further. This is a great book for any K-3rd grader who loves dogs or might be an animal lover! Super cute. It is part of a 4 book series and just came out this month (August 2019)....more
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