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1. Around the World in 80 Books This site is designed as the online companion piece to "Around the World in 80 Books," presented by Keith Schoch at the 2009 NJEA Teachers' Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Here you'll find dozens of helpful links along...
2. Teaching with Picture Books Picture books deserve a place in the upper elementary and middle school grades for a number of reasons. Through this site, I hope to make you a true believer! For those wondering, "Are picture books for me?" I've provided thirteen reason...
3. Top Toys for Toddlers 12-18 Months Old Whether you are a parent of a busy toddler, a grandparent looking for a great gift for your grandchild, or a childcare provider wanting to give your toddler area toys that appeal to many children, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to find toys that...
4. Coffee Table Book Ideas There are millions of coffee table books (or gift books) to choose from. This lens may not offer THE book to meet your need, but it may spark an idea. I've always loved beautiful books. They make great gifts to yourself or another. In many of them,...
5. Old Black Fly Unit Study Old Black Fly's been buzzing around and lands on an alphabet's worth of spilled drips and drops of food. This poem is fun to read aloud with it's lilting rhyme has makes you want to dance. Use Old Black Fly to start a unit on insects that will inspi...
6. Go Away Big Green Monster Unit Study Go Away,Big Green Monster! is a book of cut-out pages that page by page reveal a monster and then page by page make it disappear. The simple cuts and the bold colors appeal to both young children and old. It is as much of a  delight to read to g...
7. King Bidgood's in the Bathtub Unit Study King Bidgood's in the Bathtub is a wonderful story by Audrey and Don Wood about a king who loves baths and playing in the bathtub. It is a great jumping off point for studying Medieval Times, Hygiene, or sorting and categorizing. In this lens we...
8. Top Ten Children's Authors Children's books are a work of art and heart. You might think it is easier to write for children, but to tell the truth, writing for children is difficult. Every word counts in a children's book. The language must be clear, concise, and beautiful. W...
9. Picture Books To Help Children Cope With Stress Why should we read to children? The main reason is that reading together is FUN! Reading to a child offers a special kind of closeness, as you and your child join together in imagination to experience the characters' adventures and feelings and to li...
10. MobiStories: Digital Books for Children MobiStories are narrated digital children's books with illustrations and music written by famous authors such as Steven Kroll and Chris L. Demarest. Digital Books can be downloaded onto any MP3 device and offer children high quality, educational lit...
11. Great Books to Read Aloud. Part 1 I found a great resource for parents who want to read aloud to their children. Great Books to Read Aloud by Jaqueline Wilson. The author gathered together the collection of fabulous books through suggestions from publishers, booksellers, librarian...
12. Karma Wilson, Author of Bear Snores On Karma Wilson's debut book for children was "Bear Snores On." Since its publication in 2002, it has become wildly popular and Wilson had written several other books starring Bear and his friends, as well as a number of other children'...
13. Christmas Cookies: Bite Size Holiday Lessons, A Children's Book Review Beautifully put together, Christmas Cookies: Bite-Size Holiday Lessons was written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Jane Dyer. It is the perfect addition to your holiday library and will allow you to introduce your young children to vocabul...
14. How to Teach Reading and Language Arts Over the past few months I've created a few lenses here at Squidoo that have proven to be pretty popular with teachers, tutors, parents, and home schoolers. I've also created three blogs (that's short for web logs for all us old folks) that have beco...
15. Graeme Base - Children's Author Extrordinaire How would you like to immerse yourself and your children in entrancing tales, creative pictures, mysteries, and puzzles every time you sit down to read?  Australian children's author Graeme Base takes you there with his innovative stories an...
16. Animal Books for Kids Welcome to Chapter 2 of Noori's Library: Animal Stories!
17. Children's Poetry and Illustration Recently a poet friend, Charlotte Franck, and I took a workshop together through the Writers Center of Indiana. The topic was children's poetry and illustration and it was conducted by Rebecca Dotlich, a national and very prolific writer, and Sharon...
18. Best Christmas Books I love Christmas, and a special part of Christmas in my house is the reading and sharing of beautiful Christmas books. I want to share some of this joy with other parents and children, so am creating a lens highlighting wonderful Christmas books.
19. Learn Shapes, Numbers, Colors, and More From Little Rabbit and Friends Alan Baker's "Little Rabbit" series of books are some of my daughter's absolute favorites, and they are books I don't get tired of reading to her. The illustrations are beautiful and the simple, sweet stories are utterly charming. It's hard to find a...
20. The Three Bears: A Unit Study There are the three bears that Goldilocks encountered but in Alaska there are also three types of real bears. (Ok, Four if you count the Kodiak but it fits the tale better to combine the Kodiak with the Brown or Grizzly Bears.) The three best known...