This story is about two kids, Pauline and John-John, who decide to host a lemonade stand on a frigid February day. Despite their parents protests the siblings get straight to work. The two collect all of their own quarters to purchase their lemons, limes, sugar, and cups. When they are not gettin...
I love this trilogy by Emily Jenkins! They are perfect read-alouds for young children; when you are ready to start on chapter books. Each chapter is like a mini-story; the characters are engaging and the conflicts real, but non-threatening. Friendship, jealousy, fear and change -- all are introdu...
I read the first Toys Go Out back in before I had ever heard of Toy Story. A teacher friend used to do a toy unit every December and this would make a great read aloud for that time of year (first to third grade)I love the language. Who couldn't love "A mischief of toy mice, very small in si...
I chose to read this book because it seemed like a good read for second grade and up: its plot and themes, sporadic illustrations, plus readability make it a fine book for this age group. The main storyline is about this boy going into fourth grade, feeling not so great due to his best friend's m...
I have a PandaBat, Hank meets a bandapat. I am enchanted.***I read it halfway because I'd left the real book I was reading in the car. The next morning I handed it off to Tosh, who finished yesterday. She loved it! NO surprise there. I loved it too. I appreciate that Hank is suffering from a bull...
Inspired by the many hot summer days the author spent at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, this story gives readers a day-in-the-life experience in a park on a hot day. Readers see how the different visitors use the park and the water over the course of the day. Pencil and ink wash illustrations assembl...
It was pretty sweet. Good for kids who are easily intimidated by people in authority. A girl has an active imagination about all the "scary" people (her principal, a teacher, the bus driver) and how, when they go home, the scary people must not be scary (they take dance lessons and play with thei...
Outside, a mean wind blows. Icicles hang from the windowsills. Inside, Pauline presses her nose to the frosted glass. “I know!” she says. “Let’s have a lemonade stand.” Mom shakes her head. “Nobody will be on the street,” she says. “Don’t you see it’s freezing?” “We could still have a lemonade st...
Here is how it happened. He went on a picnic! The Little Girl and her father walked to a park, where there was a big pond and lots of grass and sunshine. The Girl carried Lumphy all the way there, holding on to his tail (it didn’t hurt), and then they all three sat on a patchwork blanket and ate ...
He demands that I show him the contents of my lunch box. “Spanky Pantalones!” he shouts. “Whatcha got?” I remember the way he came at me in gym. I remember how he said “See. You. Later.” I open my lunch box and show him. “Bread and peanut butter, yuck,” he says. “Yogurt, yuck. Apple, yuck. Oh, Or...