Eugenie Fernandes
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Winter comes to Kitten's world, and the little calico leaves her cozy home for an afternoon of exploration and discovery. Kitten learns that even on a frosty day, animal life flourishes: a squirrel forages, an otter goes fishing and a woodpecker taps the side of a bare-limbed tree. At the same time, readers discover that for many animals, winter is a time of rest. Softly, Kitten treads past a burrowing turtle, a napping beaver and a hibernating bear....
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
It's a bright spring day in the farmyard and Kitten is meeting all sorts of animals and their young, including frogs and tadpoles, owls and owlets and many more. In this first book in the Kitten series, rhyming couplets capture the animals' sounds and actions, making it a fantastic interactive read-aloud. Young readers will enjoy mimicking animal sounds, picking out seasonal details in the exquisite mixed-media art and searching for and finding Kitten...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A beautifully illustrated picture book introducing toddlers to animals in the farmyard and the woods on a rainy summer day. It's a rainy summer day, and Kitten is meeting all sorts of animals taking shelter from or enjoying the warm rain, including a fox, a turtle, a beaver and many more. As in the two previous titles in the Kitten series, rhyming couplets capture the animals' actions, making this book another fantastic interactive read-aloud. Young...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
It's a vibrant autumn day in Kitten's second adventure, as the ever-curious Kitten explores the woods near her farm and meets the creatures who live there. She finds a chipmunk chewing on a seed, a caterpillar munching on a leaf, a frog catching flies and many more creatures snacking on this and that to ready themselves for winter. While the simple rhyming couplets make this a perfect read-aloud, young readers will enjoy picking out seasonal details...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This story is narrated by a young girl, who tells the story of the week her Rabbit decided to throw a party. "But Rabbit" she says, "you don't like parties." "That's true," he says, "but I do like my friends." So, he invites them to a costume party, and works hard all week to get ready. As he rushes to-and-fro with oodles of preparations to make, the girl overhears her friend muttering to himself: "One thing at a time, Rabbit. One thing at a time."...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, tells of how a poor Ghanaian boy buys a chicken through a community loan program, which eventually helps lift him, his mother, and his community out of poverty.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mimi's fictional village is like thousands of real villages in the developing world, where health care, especially among infants and children, is poor or uneven. As a result, every day, 21,000 children under the age of five die, most of them from diseases that could have been prevented with basic health care."--Front jacket flap. "Mimi Malaho and her family help bring basic health care to their community. By making small changes like sleeping under...
11) Ribbon rescue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl unselfishly gives away the ribbons from her new dress to help various people on their way to a wedding.
16) Mommies at work
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Examines many different jobs performed by working mothers, including counting money in banks and building bridges.
17) A cat in a kayak
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
""Miss Lou" is widely credited as having helped Jamaican Patois recognized as a "nation language." Thanks to her writing and her work in TV and radio, Jamaican Patois was embraced internationally and she created spaces for poets like Mutabaruka and Linton Kwesi Johnson and singers like Bob Marley and Harry Belafonte to centralize and popularize Jamaican English, Creole, patois in their work. This picture book manuscript focuses on a young Miss Lou...
20) Today is the day
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mutanu is excited. As she goes about her chores, she thinks about the day to come and what surprises it might bring. For today is no ordinary day at the orphanage she lives in. Every year, the orphanage honors its newest arrivals by creating a birthday day especially for them. From that moment forward, the orphans have a day that they know is theirs--a day to celebrate, a day to enjoy, a day to remember. And today is the day! Based on real children...