Come With Me To Paris
by Gloria Fowler (Author) AND Min Heo (Illustrator)
Booktalk: A rhyming look at the city of Paris!
Snippet:
Paris is a beautiful city in France;
Please come visit,
should you have the chance.
The French call it Paree,
and there is so much to see;
Come with me and you’ll agree,
it’s a great place to be!
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by My Juicy Little Universe.
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A Penguin Named Patience: A Hurricane Katrina Rescue Story
by Suzanne Lewis (Author) and Lisa Anchin (Illustrator)
Booktalk: At roughly 6 pounds and approximately 20 inches tall, Patience, the South African penguin, is small, but at 24 years old she is also the “penguin in charge” of the penguin exhibit at New Orleans’s Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and severely damaged the aquarium.
Snippet:
Patience knew something was terribly wrong.
It was dark and steamy hot inside her home at the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans. Being an African penguin meant she was used to a warm climate, but not this warm!
It’s Nonfiction Monday!
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Those Magnificent Sheep in Their Flying Machines
by Peter Bently (Author) and David Roberts (Illustrator)
Booktalk: The sheep on the hillside were munching away, much as they always did, day after day, when suddenly something went ZOOM overhead! “Let’s go and see what it is!” they all said. And so begins a ripping, round-the-world adventure as the magnificent sheep take to skies in their spiffing, yellow flying machine…
Snippet:
A bright yellow aeroplane stood nearby.
“How spiffing,” said Eunice, “to fly in the sky!
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by TeacherDance.
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Red: A Crayon’s Story
by Michael Hall (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: A blue crayon mistakenly labeled as “red” suffers an identity crisis…
Snippet:
He was red
TURN THE PAGE
But he wasn’t
very good at it.
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Love Is Real
by Janet Lawler (Author) and Anna Brown (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Families of foxes, bunnies, and bears teach each other about the power of love…
Snippet:
Love is in the little things
that fill my heart until it sings.
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Merely Day by Day.
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The Cake
by Dorothée De Monfreid (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: Tiger wants chocolate cake. Rabbit has a weakness for carrot. Monkey wants a banana cake. Dog, of course, wants a bone cake. Little Bear really wants a fish cake. Can everyone be satisfied?
Snippet:
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Find Spot!
by Stacey Previn (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: Can you spot the spots hidden in this die-cut picture book?
Snippet:
Spot crows.
Spot wakes.
Spot fries.
Spot bakes.
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by These 4 Corners.
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Did You Know That I Love You?
by Christa Pierce (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: Bird sweetly expresses her love to Fox…
Snippet:
Did you know that I love you?
Who me?
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Rain Forest Colors
by Janet Lawler (Author) and Tim Laman (Photographer)
Booktalk: Yellow spiders! Blue butterflies! Green lizards! See creatures of the rain forest in 10 basic colors.
Snippet: Did you know? A tree kangaroo can safely jump down from more than fifty feet (15m) up in a tree?
Brown tree kangaroo photograph by Tim Laman
It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
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Larry Gets Lost in Washington, DC
by John Skewes (Author, Illustrator), Andrew Fox (Author)
Booktalk: When Larry gets separated from the family by the scent of a yummy treat, he searches DC for his owner Pete. Along the way, Larry discovers the city’s greatest landmarks and learns about the city’s—and the nation’s—history. Larry makes friends along the way, but will he find Pete and be reunited with the family?
Snippet:
Such a big, fancy yard,
With a house painted white.
Would he find his friend here?
Larry hoped that he might.
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by A Teaching Life .
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