Early Childhood
books designed for young children to help them learn to read and know their alphabet
Apple Fractions by Jerry Pallota
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This book is good is a good book not only for children to learn their fractions but also for children to learn about different types of apples and how to use fractions to share with other people. It gives the children different apple types and explains what they taste like, look like, where they are from, and what weather is good for the apples to grow. This book also tells how many parts are in a whole, and what certain fractions mean by showing a picture of what it looks like using the apples sliced into different parts.
The Butterfly Alphabet Book by Brian Cassie and Jerry Pallotta
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This book explains about butterflies all around the world in alphabetical order. The close-up photographs in The Butterfly Alphabet book reveal, the delicate wings of butterflies and moths from around the world, an exquisite alphabet written in nature's own hand. Full pictures are shown of each butterfly with information about them and butterflies in general. This book is a good book to have children read because it shows them the differences and characteristics about butterflies. This would be great for a science class, or to use for the pictures that the book has in it.
Chicka Chicka 1,2,3 by Bill Martin Jr., Michael Sampson, Lois Ehert
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This is a counting book, where the numbers each have a specific part in the book. One hundred and one numbers climb the apple tree in this bright, joyous book for young children. As the numerals pile up on the tree, bumblebees start to threaten them and they don't know what to do. They all have their purpose, and they don't know who can help. The number that helps the most is one that gets overlooked, and by the end of the book, becomes the hero. This is a good book not only to teach children how to count, but also with their rhyming skills. It shows that all the letters are important, and that we can't get to one without the others.
Draw Me a Star by Eric Carle
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Draw me a star. And the artist drew a star. It was a good star. Draw me a sun, said the star. And the artist drew a sun. And on the artist draws, bringing the world to life picture by picture until he is spirited across the night sky by a star that shines on all he has made. In Draw Me a Star, Eric Carle celebrates the imagination in all of us with a story about a young artist who creates a world of light and possibility. This book has bright colors, and teaches children that if they believe they can do it, that they can do anything.
Each Peach Pear Plum by Allan Ahlberg
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This book is the journey of Tom Thumb. It starts out with him in the tree and then jumps to who he saw. Once the story tells about who Tom saw, it goes to who and what everyone saw. It continues to run through the story and explains about other nursery rhyme characters and what they see and do in the story. This is a good story for children to read to get the gist of what the nursery rhymes are and what they may be about.
E-Mergency! by Tom Lichtenheld
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All letters live together. E came down the steps too fast and fell all the letters came to see what happened. A told people what to do. EMT’s came and took E to the ER in the meantime. No one could take her place, and they announced to everyone about what happened to her. O tried to take her place in the words, but it was too confusing for everyone, and to make things worse E was not getting any better. E was being used too much and no one knew what to do. With all the words being messed up, people being confused, and E still sick, it was almost the end until the letters knew what to do. They figured out the narrator was using E too much. The narrator stopped using her and was back to normal, rested and healthy again. In reading this book, children will learn the alphabet and will discover how many letters are used, and how many times they are used in our everyday words. This can help with spelling, and make them aware of the most common letters.
K is for Keystone: A Pennsylvania Alphabet by Kristen Kane
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This book brought together many different parts of Pennsylvania in one book for children to read. They used the letters in the alphabet to highlight certain parts of the state’s history and culture. It ex[plains about places, famous people, buildings, and cultures. This book explains about the birth place of Crayola and the beautiful places that Pennsylvania has to offer all of us. Some certain points it explains are Amish, Bill Cosby, the coalmines, Philadelphia and all the historical items and places, the very first zoo in the nation, the birth place of Hershey chocolate, and many inventions and inventors just to name a few. This book is good to help teach the geography of Pennsylvania and also will show the children how amazing the state they live in is.
Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
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When a chameleon goes to the zoo and sees all the wonderful animals, he suddenly thinks his life is not so interesting. He wishes to be a flamingo, an elephant, a deer, a fish etc. He is very mixed up, and is no longer his normal color. At the end of the day, he is tired and hungry but he cannot catch a fly. He makes one last wish which is to be himself. He catches the fly. This book reminds readers that although it may seem great to be something or someone else, you are really at your best when your yourself. People should try to be themselves and not something that they're not.
Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC by June Sobel
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This book gives children the ability to get to know the alphabet. It goes through the alphabet with a group of pirates sailing the sea. Their adventure starts when they go on a hunt for the ABC’s. They continue sailing and find an island which they sail to and look on the land for letters. The crew find letters in the order of the ABC’s and uses a word that starts with each letter that they find. They find all the letters of the alphabet and found examples of what starts with those letters. This book is a fun way to help children learn the alphabet., and also gives them an understanding of a certain topic, and what words are associated with that topic.
Z if for Zeus: Greek Mythology Alphabet by Helen L. Wilbur
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This book is an alphabet book about Greek Mythology. The Oracle in this book narrates it and tells young readers about what they encounter in the book with the strange creatures, exotic gods, and exciting stories. Human endeavors are often at odds with the whims and the will and the ways of the gods and this book shows how they interact with human affairs. This is a good book to have children learn about the gods, and also Greek Mythology with the creatures that are involved in it. This not only teaches the alphabet, but also gives the kids understanding of a different time period and culture.