Regardless of where you fall in your opinions on the issues facing the world today, we hope these books can help start or facilitate conversation about differences.
Social Studies
Book Review: BE KIND, by Pat Zietlow Miller
We are at a place in this world where we NEED to teach kids to be kind!
Book Review: Little Taco Truck by Tanya Valentine & Jorge Martin
Why I Picked It Up: Because how cute is that little taco truck?? I have a soft spot for anthropomorphized vehicles (blame it on my first born’s reading preferences), and this one was too cute to pass up. Why I Finished It: It definitely surprised me! Food trucks are so popular now, so I was […]
Book Review: American Ace, by Marilyn Nelson
Why I Picked It Up: This was a last minute addition to our Newer Choices in YA Lit for a literacy conference in Fort Worth last year. I think it had airplanes on it, so Jessica thought it must be a me book. It’s fun how we seemingly randomly assign books to each other that […]
Book Review: What’s the Difference? By Emma Strack
Why I Picked It Up: I am always on the hunt for nonfiction text structures (click the tabs at the top of this mentor text list). This one came up as a perfect “compare and contrast”! Why I Finished It: What’s the Difference? asks the reader to consider the difference between pairs of objects, such as […]
Three Vibrant Picture Books To Teach Big Content
All of these books used color as a vehicle to tell a much larger story.
