Just another picture of my “Mr Wuffles” since he was very much loved on my official review post 😂🐱

This very imaginative Caldecott Award Winning SF text is a near wordless picture book that follows a stubborn cat not wanting to play with kitty toys but is more interested in playing with little spaceships and aliens. A good teaching strategy paired well with this book is an AS!

A Caldecott Award Winning HF book revolving around the Civil War, we meet Ada Ruth, a young girl who has to watch her Mama go away for work during these hard times. This book captivates the raw emotion of waiting, sadness, everyday living, and thriving hope during war time beautifully.

This beloved Caldecott Award winning book discusses friendship, bravery, overcoming worry and fear, ingenuity, and team work. A strategy that could go hand and hand with incorporating all these themes would be DR, as students get the opportunity to get up out of their seats and translate the words they are reading as a class through movement and expression.

This heartfelt Caldecott award winning RF read is a book focusing on themes of family, relations, connections, imagination, and childhood.

A perfect book for discussing those frustrating and angry emotions, this Caldecott RF read is a must for our primary classrooms! Being able to make those text to world and text to self connections through visual illustrations and flowing text, this book discusses emotions that sometimes go unnoticed or undiscussed.

This MF Caldecott winning classic read takes a look inside the barn of some very determined barn animals wanting some accommodations to their living situation. When Farmer Brown doesn‘t comply, the animals go on strike, using a type writer to relay their request to a very upset Farmer Brown.

This P read is perfect for young primary students who are just getting into the world of poems! With 60+ poems included in this text as well as an array of writers, student will get an overview and consistent look of poetry and its style!

This wholesome Caldecott Award winning MF read about adventure, different paths crossing, and unexpected blooming friendships. To focus on story structure, a perfect strategy to involve with this book is IR, so students can then understand/graph the main events that take place in this very linear book.

This beautifully eerie illustrated and written Caldecott Award Winning P displays a cunning and manipulating spider attempting to entrap a fly in his web.

This John Newbery Medal Award winning NF read discusses the true story events of not only volcanoes, yet the eruption and healing of Mount St. Helens; covering topics of the big blast, survivors and colonizers, links, and general volcano knowledge all connected with diagrams, visual aids, and real life pictures. A teaching strategy useful to this particular text would be LC.

This cute MF book looks at the life of Sneezy, a Snowman who can‘t quite get it right! One second he‘s too cold, the next he‘s too hot- what will hit the right spot? Themes are discussed such as sharing, caring, and collaborative efforts amongst friends!
A great strategy for this book would be RT and you can find a script to purchase for a small fee here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:sneezy%20the%20snowman%20reade...

This silly MF book is a sequel to the original title: Dragons Love Tacos. When the dragons find out there are just no more of their favorite food, they come up with a logical plan B: to go back in time, get a taco, and plant a taco tree of course! On their adventures they work together through trials and errors to finally get their precious taco.

This B is a painfully honest but raw story of Ceasar Chavez and the mark he left on this world by protesting and fighting for the rights he and the people around him deserved. After leading the longest nonviolent March in US history, he signed the first contract for farm workers in American History.

This RF focuses on a young boy who begins to have a problem. Not knowing what to do, who to turn to, and how to handle it- the problem begins to grow to a hindering size. Will the boys be brave and face his fears? Or will he continue ignoring it, only making it more unbearable?

This MF is a hilarious rhyming book following a competitive race between two breakfast friends when they realize there is only one drop of syrup left. Does this friendship mean more than syrup?

This RF book discusses themes that I always want shared in my classroom which is needs vs wants, compassion, bullying, and friendship. It follows a main character‘s journey to find the perfect pair of shoes so he can “belong” and when he finally finds them but in the wrong size, does he share or does he want others who can‘t have them to suffer with him?

Bringing the Rain to Kapith Plain is a beautifully illustrated book to match a brilliant TL read. This book tells a tale of an African man who restores life while diminishing the hardships of the weather on a plain.

This adorable and vibrant RF book discuses themes of friendship, jealousy, and individuality with differences! With the world continuing to accept and embrace differences every day, this book is perfect for all elementary grades, as it is a pivotal theme we want our students to understand.

This RF book focusing on themes of wants vs needs as well as patience is amazing for all ages but especially our little ones who are still trying to realize these important concepts!

This cartoon illustrated B book is RIGHT on theme for International Women‘s Day that just passed, as well as the whole of International Women‘s Month as well! This quick factual book gives readers a glimpse of 23 iconic women who have conquered and changed the world.

I chose this book for..obvious reasons😂 I, just like my girl Zuri in Hair Love have a lot of hair to love! Growing up, I was bullied for my hair, stereotyped because of my hair, & most importantly I never once saw a girl who looked like me in a book growing up. People don‘t understand that this changes the way we view things! Due to my experience, I try to read/provide books like this that show that missing representation for ALL students to see!