Picture Book of the Day – Page 10

This Orq. (He Cave Boy.)

This Orq. (He Cave Boy.)
by David Elliott (Author) and Lori Nichols (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Meet Orq, cave boy. And Woma, woolly mammoth. Orq love Woma. Only one problem: Mom is not a fan of Woma, who sheds and smells and is definitely not cave-trained.

Snippet:
This Orq.
He live in cave.
He carry club.
He cave boy.

Rabbi Benjamin’s Buttons

Rabbi Benjamin’s Buttons
by Alice B. McGinty (Author) and Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Illustrator)

Booktalk: The families of the congregation make Rabbi Benjamin a special holiday vest, complete with four shiny silver buttons. Throughout the year—Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Chanukah, and Passover—the rabbi celebrates with his congregation, unable to resist their delicious home-cooked food. But with each holiday his vest grows tight, tighter, until . . . POP! (Recipes included in the back of the book!)

Snippet: During Sukkot, the fall festival of the harvest, Rabbi Benjamin visited a different family’s sukkah each night. Sitting in on their sukkot under starry skies, they sang songs of thanksgiving and ate meals of squash, stuffed cabbage, and sweet potato pie. The rabbi ate and sang until the holiday vest stretched very tightly across his belly.

Our Solar System

Our Solar System
by Seymour Simon (Author)

Booktalk: Visit the eight planets and their moons, as well as asteroids and comets in this new, updated edition!

Snippet: Our Solar System was born among the billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. About 4.6 billion years ago, a huge cloud of dust and hydrogen gas floating at the edges of the galaxy began to pull together to form a disk.

See inside the book!

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole

Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
by Irene Latham (Author) and Anna Wadham (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Spend a day at a water hole on the African grasslands in this poetry collection with facts about the animals and their environment accompanying each poem.

Snippet:
Dear Wandering Wildebeest

Wander with me,
meander with me.

Come, be my companion
in this wildebeest sea.

**Irene is one of my former students!**

This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up will be hosted by No Water River.

Stanley the Builder

Stanley the Builder
by William Bee (Author, Illustrator)

Booktalk: Stanley is building Myrtle a new house. Will he make it just right?

Snippet: First Stanley clears the site with his orange bulldozer.

With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School

With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School
by Suzanne Slade (Author) and Nicole Tadgell (Illustrator)

Booktalk: When Booker T. Washington arrived in Tuskegee, Alabama to teach, he found many eager students but no school. So, Booker and his students decided to build their own school–brick by brick.

Snippet: Booker searched the town until he found a old shed he could use. The building had no windows or doors and huge holes in the roof, but it was all he had.

Soon the whole town of Tuskegee was talking about Booker’s school. Dozens of students lined up on the first day. They squished and squeezed inside the tiny shed. Each week the school became more crowded.

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Firefighter’s Tools

Firefighter’s Tools
by Anders Hanson (Author)

Booktalk: Find out more about the tools used by firefighters. Young readers will see how a fire engine, fire hose, rescue tools and turnout gear works.

Snippet:
Turnout gear protects firefighters from heat.

Turnout gear is protective clothing. It is able to withstand 500-degree heat for five minutes or more.

Turnout gear includes a helmet, coat, gloves, pants, suspenders, and boots.

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

Abuelo

Abuelo
by Arthur Dorros (Author) and Raul Colon (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Together, a young boy and his abuelo (grandfather) go camping, ride horses, and even confront a mountain lion. Soon, the boy’s family moves to the city from the country, away from Abuelo…

Snippet:
But one day, my family told me
we were moving to the city.
“No te preocupes,” don’t worry,
Abuelo told me, we could visit.

Chu’s First Day of School

Chu’s First Day of School
by Neil Gaiman (Author) and Adam Rex (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Chu, the adorable panda with a great big sneeze, is heading off for his first day of school, and he’s nervous. He hopes the other boys and girls will be nice. Will they like him? What will happen at school?

Snippet:
“Will they like me?” Chu asked his mother.
“Of course they will like you,” she told him.

Work: An Occupational ABC

Work: An Occupational ABC
by Kellen Hatanaka (Author, Illustrator)

Booktalk: An alphabetical tour of jobs! (Just right for Labor Day today.)

Snippet: (from the author’s website)

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