Melissa Sweet
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Award-winning artist Sweet tells the story of the puppeteer Tony Sarg, capturing his genius, his dedication, his zest for play, and his long-lasting gift to America--the inspired helium balloons that would become the trademark of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephermera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be fascinated and inspired by the journalist, New Yorker contributor, and children's book author who loved words his whole life. This authorized tribute, a New York Times bestseller, includes an afterword by Martha White, his granddaughter. --
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While Spike, a tiny axolotl salamander, practices being the monster he believes he is, other animals call him cute and funny but when a gila monster arrives and the other creatures hide, Spike shows his true nature.
8) Easy as pie
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jacob watches his favorite television show, "Baking with Chef Monty, " and bakes a beautiful peach pie, which he gives to his parents for their anniversary.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of "shy young Peter Mark Roget, [for whom] books were the best companions--and it wasn't long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn't write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding exactly the right word to express just what he thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually turning into one of the most important reference books of all time"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a boy, John James Audubon loved to watch birds. In 1804, at the age of eighteen, he moved from his home in France to Pennsylvania. There he took a particular interest in peewee flycatchers. While observing these birds, John James became determined to answer a pair of two-thousand-year-old questions: Where do small birds go in the winter, and do they return to the same nest in the spring?
Author
Series
Baby Bear books volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Throughout the day, Baby Bear finds a book to fit every special moment.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Combines playful text with inventive artwork to encourage readers to celebrate the magic of discovering their very own poetry in the world around them.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As they awake in the morning, children are invited to listen to the sounds of their world, where parrots squawk in the rain forest, lions roar on the savanna, and more. Includes facts about the animals included and their habitats.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rex and her best friend Pinky are upset to learn that their friend and neighbor Mrs. Morgan is moving, and it looks like a family with an obnoxious boy named Ollie is set to move in.