PICTURE THIS!

Using Picture Books

To Introduce or Teach Skills

2006-2007

Compiled by:

Jana Starnes

Boswell Elementary School

Lebanon, Missouri

jstarnes@lebanon.k12.mo.us

(Updated 8-23-06)

MATH

Counting - Simple:

Grapes of Math – Tang (math riddles, higher level counting) 793.7

King’s Commissioners – Friedman (by 2’s, 5’s, etc.)

Leaping Lizards - Murphy

M&M’s Counting Book – McGrath

Spots: Counting Creatures from Sky to Sea – Lesser 513.2

Warthogs in the Kitchen – Edwards

Add/Subtract:

Ready, Set, Hop- Murphy (also teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2

Multiplication:

Anno’s Magic Seeds – Anno 513

Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar – Anno 512

Arctic Fives Arrive – Pinczes

Bats on Parade - Appelt

One Grain of Rice – Demi 398.2 U

Two Ways to Count to Ten – Dee 398.2

Division:

Divide and Ride - Murphy (teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2

Doorbell Rang - Hutchins

Great Divide – Dodds

King’s Commissioners – Friedman

One Hundred Hungry Ants - Pinczes

Remainder of One - Pinczes

Two Ways to Count to Ten – Dee 398.2

Fractions:

Doorbell Rang - Hutchins

Fraction Fun – Adler 513.2

Give Me Half! - Murphy (teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2

Piece=Part=Portion: Fractions=Decimals=Percents –Gifford 513.2

Measurement:

Counting on Frank - Clement

How Tall, How Short, How Faraway – Adler 530.8

Twelve Snails to One Lizard - Hightower

Circumference:

Librarian Who Measured the Earth – Lasky 921 Era

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland – Neuschwander 516

Area & Perimeter:

Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! – Burns

Capacity & Liquid Measurement:

Room for Ripley – Murphy 530.8

Large Numbers:

Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? – Wells

Million Fish…More or Less - McKissack

On Beyond a Million –Schwartz 513.5

Estimation:

Betcha! – Murphy 519.5

Geometry:

Elephants on Board – MacDonald

Grandfather Tang’s Story (Tangrams) - Tompett

Greedy Triangle – Burns

Hamster Champs – Murphy (Angles) 516

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table – Neuschwander 516

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland – Neuschwander 516

Time:

Pigs on a Blanket - McGinley-Nally (teaching ideas in back of book)

Critical Thinking:

Anno’s Hat Tricks - Anno

Problem Solving:

Arithme-Tickle – 513 Lew

Grapes of Math – Tang 793.7

Math Curse – Scieszka

Safari Park – Murphy (finding the missing element) 512.9

Money; Economics:

Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday – Viorst

If You Made a Million – Schwartz 332.042

Jelly Beans for Sale – McMillan 332.4

Market Days – Jaffrey 381

Markets – Bendick 380.1

Pigs Will Be Pigs - Axelrod

Probability: General math:

No Fair! - Holtzman (teaching ideas in back of book) Marvelous Math: a Book of

Poems – Hopkins 811

Ratio and/or Proportion: G is for Googol – Schwartz 510

If Dogs Were Dinosaurs – Schwartz 513.2 Only One – Harshman 513.2

If You Hopped Like a Frog – Schwartz 513.2

Graphs:

Great Graph Contest - Leedy

MORE MATH (Pre-K – 3)

Addition & Subtraction:

Animals on Board – Murphy, Stuart J. (PreK-2)

Domino Addition - Long, Lynette (K-3)

Each Orange Had 8 Slices – Giganti, Paul (PreK-3)

Elevator Magic – Murphy (K-3)

Fair Bear Share – Murphy (K-3) (addition, regrouping)

Monster Musical Chairs – Murphy (PreK-2)

One Guinea Pig is Not Enough – Duke, kae (PreK-2)

Shark Swimathon – Murphy (2-4) (subtracting 2-digit)

Twenty is Too Many – Duke, Kate (K-3)

Multiplication and Division:

Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream: A Mathematical Story – Neuschwander & Burns (2-4)

Best of Times – Tang, Greg (2-5)

Double the Ducks – Murphy (K-3)

Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do – Murphy (2-4) (addition, multiplication)

Geometry:

Let’s Fly a Kite – Murphy (1-3) (symmetry)

My Full Moon is Square – Pinczes, Elinor (K-3)

Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons – Adler, David (K-3)

Wing on a Flea: A Book about Shapes – Emberley, Ed (K-3)

When a Line Bends…a Shape Begins – Greene, Rhonda (K-3)

What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? – Ellis, Julie (3-6)

Fractions:

Apple Fractions – Pallotta, Jerry (2-4)

Jump, Kangaroo, Jump – Murphy (2-4)

Polar Bear Math: Learning about Fractions from Klondike and Snow – Nagda, Ann (3-5)

Measurement:

Bigger, Better, Best – Murphy (2-4) (area)

How Tall, How Short, How Faraway? – Adler, David (K-3)

Inchworm and a Half – Pinczes, Elinor (PreK-2)

Inch by Inch – Lionni, Leo (PreK-2)

Mighty Maddie – Murphy (PreK-1) (weights)

Millions to Measure – Schwartz, David (1-4)

Racing Around – Murphy (1-4) (perimeter)

Number Concepts:

100 Days of Cool – Murphy (1-3)

Button Box – Reid, Margarette (PreK-1) (patterning )

Earth Day – Hooray! – Murphy (2-4) (place value)

Every Buddy Counts – Murphy (K-1) (counting)

(Number Concepts cont’d)

Just Enough Carrots – Murphy (K-2) (counting)

Little Numbers and Pictures That Show Just How Little They Are – Packard, Edward

(2-6)

Missing Mittens – Murphy (K-2) (odd and even numbers)

Pair of Socks – Murphy (K-2) (patterns)

Teeth, Tails, and Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book – Wormell, Christopher (1-4)

Place for Zero – Murphy (K-3)

Problem Solving and Riddles:

Five Creatures – Jenkins, Emily (K-3)

Riddle-iculous Math – Holub, Joan (3-6)

Telling Time:

Bunny Day: Telling Time from Breakfast to Bedtime – Walton, Rick (Prek-K)

Cluck O’Clock – Gray, Kes (PreK-2)

Game Time – Murphy (1-4)

How Long? – Dale, Elizabeth (PreK-K)

It’s about Time! – Murphy (K-3)

It’s about Time, Max! – Richards, Kitty (1-3)

Little Rabbits’ First Time Book – Baker, Alan (PreK-K)

Me Counting Time from Seconds to Centuries – Sweeney, Joan (K-2)

Mouse Tells the Time – Moon (PreK-1)

Telling Time – Older, Jules (2-5)

Telling Time with Big Mama Cat – Harper, Dan (K-3)

What Time Is It, Mr. Crocodile? – Sierra, Judy (PreK-2)

Probability:

Probably Pistachio – Murphy (K-3)

Percentages:

Grizzly Gazette – Murphy (2-4)

Estimation/Rounding:

Coyotes All Around – Murphy (1-4)

Money/Negative Numbers:

Less than Zero – Murphy (2-4)

SCIENCE

General:

Science Verse – Scieszka & Smith

Weather:

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Barrett

Feel the Wind – Dorros 551.5 DOR

Geoffry Groundhog Predicts the Weather – Koscielniak (Groundhog Day)

It’s Up to You, Griffin – Pickford (Groundhog Day)

River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz (poems, flood in SD)

Snowflake Bentley - Martin

The Storm – Harshman

The Storm Book – Zoloto

Thunder Cake – Polacco

Plants:

Old Elm Speaks, Tree Poems – George

Pumpkin Circle: Story of a Garden - Levenson

Reason for a Flower - Heller (in Big Book form also)

Sky Tree – Locker

A Tree is Growing – Dorros

Trees: The First Forest – Giles

Spiders:

Like Jake and Me - Jukes

Bats:

Stellaluna - Cannon

Snakes:

Verdi -Cannon

Pigs:

Pigs -Gibbons

Food Chains/Food Webs:

Sierra - Siebert

Space:

Call Me Ahnightio - Conrad (about a famous meteorite)

Dust:

Stars Beneath Your Bed: the Surprising Story of Dust - Sayre

SOCIAL STUDIES

Early Exploration:

The Discovery of the Americas - Maestro

Encounter - Yolen

Native Americans:

Annie and the Old One – Miles

Beyond the Ridge – Goble

Gift of the Sacred Dog – Goble

Girl Who Loved Wild Horses – Goble

Her Seven Brothers – Goble 398.2

Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin

Legend of the Indian Paintbrush – De Paola 398.2

Many Nations, An Alphabet of Native America – Bruchac

Mystic Horse- Goble 398.2

Story of Jumping Mouse – Steptoe 398.2

Thunder on the Plains – Robbins 599.64

Pilgrims:

Courage of Sarah Noble (1707)- Dalgliesh (short chapter book, 58pages)

Molly Bannaky (1603) - McGill

On the Mayflower, Voyage of the Ship’s Apprentice & a Passenger Girl - Waters

Pilgrims of Plimoth - Sewall

Stranded at Plimoth Plantation - Bowen

Three Young Pilgrims – Harness

Colonial:

A Picture Book of George Washington - Adler

Baker’s Dozen, A Colonial American Tale – Forest

Our Colonial Year – Harness 973.2

Revolutionary War:

Dangerous Crossing – Krensky

George Did It – Jurmain 921

Great Big Wagon That Rang, How the Liberty Bell Was Saved - Slate

Hand in Hand: An American History Through Poetry – Hopkins

John, Paul, George & Ben - Smith

Katie’s Trunk – Turner

Let it Begin Here! Lexington & Concord – Fradin 973.3

Paul Revere’s Ride – Longfellow

Redcoats & Petticoats - Kirkpatrick

Samuel’s Choice – Berleth

This Time, Tempe Wick? - Gauch

Which Way to the Revolution? A Book about Maps – Barner

1793/1913:

A Penny in the Road – Precek

Lewis and Clark Expedition:

I Am Sacajawea, I Am York – Murphy 920

Lewis and Clark and Me; A Dog’s Tale - Myers (short fiction read-aloud, 63 pages)

Gold Rush:

Gold Fever - Kay

Railroad Race (1863-1869):

Iron Horses - Kay

Civil War:

A. Lincoln and Me – Borden

Blue and the Gray - Bunting

Cecil’s Story - Lyon

Ghosts of the Civil War - Harness

Pink and Say - Polacco

Red Legs, a Drummer Boy of the Civil War - Lewin

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt – Fleming

Slavery:

Nettie’s Trip South - Turner

Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt -Smucker

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt - Hopkinson

Westward Movement:

Cassie’s Journey, Going West in the 1860’s - Harvey

Dandelions - Bunting

Grandmother Essie’s Covered Wagon – Williams (Missouri)

Prairie Primer A-Z – Stutson Prairie Alphabet – Moore (modern times)

Red Flower Goes West – Turner

Season’s Sewn: a year in Patchwork - Paul

Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt - Smucker

Wagons West- Gerrard

Orphan Trains (1850’s-1920’s)

Train to Somewhere - Bunting

Dust Bowl/Depression:

Dust Bowl - Booth

Leah’s Pony - Friedrich

The Babe & I - Adler

Complete History of One Location:

Barn - Atwell

Heron Street - Turner

House on Maple Street - Pryor

River Ran Wild - Cherry

Tree in the Trail - Holling

Effects of “Progress”:

Heron Street - Turner

Letting Swift River Go - Yolen

Map Skills / Geography:

Armadillo from Amarillo - Cherry

Around the World, Who’s Been Here? - George

Geography From A to Z – Knowlton

Mapping Penny’s World – Leedy Fic Lee

Picture Book of the U.S.A. – Goodman

Scrambled States of America – Keller

Economics:

Anno’s Magic Seeds – Anno 513

Lemons and Lemonade: a Book about Supply and Demand – Loewen 338.5

Ox-Cart Man – Hall

Government:

Ghosts of the White House - Harness

House Mouse, Senate Mouse – Barnes

Marshall, the Courthouse Mouse - Barnes

So You Want to Be President – St. George

Woodrow For President – Barnes

Woodrow, the White House Mouse – Barnes

WWII:

Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki

The Bracelet - Uchida

Cello of Mr. O – Cutler

Unbreakable Code - Hunter (Navajo code talkers)

Yellow Star, The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark - Deedy

In My Pocket - Sim

Missouri:

Heartland – Siebert How to Draw Missouri’s Sights and Symbols - Kuedee

The Great Shaking – Carson

S is for Show Me: a Missouri Alphabet – Young

Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon – Williams

Famous Quotes:

Who Said That? Famous Americans Speak - Burleigh

Newspaper Headlines:

Dateline: Troy – Fleischman

Symbols of America:

Uncle Sam and Old Glory, Symbols of America – West

LANGUAGE ARTS

Similes/Metaphors:

Brave as a Mountain Lion - Scott

Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon - Williams

Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin

Like Jake and Me - Jukes

Old Jake’s Skirts - Slonim

Owl Moon – Yolen

Quick as a Cricket - Wood

Song and Dance Man - Ackerman

Swamp Angel – Zelinsky

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses - Goble

Personification:

Call Me Ahnighito- Conrad

Giving Tree – Silverstein

If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff

Officer Buckle and Gloria – Rathmann

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig

Velveteen Rabbit - Williams

Onomatopoeia:

Heron Street – Turner

That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler

ZZZng! ZZZng! ZZZng! A Yoruba Tale - Gershator 398.24

Symbolism:

Fly Away Home – Bunting

Keeping Quilt – Polacco

Flashback:

Alexander; Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday – Viorst

Miss Rumphius - Cooney

Alliteration:

Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein

Animalia - Base

Dinorella - Edwards

Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish - Obligado

Four Famished Foxes - Edwards

Some Smug Slug - Edwards

Wacky Wedding - Edwards

What Pete Ate from A – Z – Kalman

Worrywarts - Edwards

Idioms:

Amelia Bedelia - Parish

Dog Breath - Pilkey

In a Pickle, and Other Funny Idioms - Terban 428.1

My Momma Likes to Say – 398.9 Bre

Homonyms:

Eight Ate, A feast of Homonym Riddles – Terban 818

Why the Banana Split - Walton

Oxymorons:

Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? And other Oxymorons – Agee 818

Palindromes:

Go Hang a Salami! I’m a Lasagna Hog! – Agee 793.73

Too Hot to Hoot – Terban 818

Homophones:

A Chocolate Moose for Dinner – Gwynne 428.1

Anagrams:

Elvis Lives! And Other Anagrams – Agee 793.734

READING SKILLS:

Main Idea:

Chair for my Mother - Williams

Fables - Lobel

Frog Prince Continued - Scieszka

Great Kapok Tree – Cherry

The Important Book - Brown

Keeping Quilt – Polacco

Vocabulary:

Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster – Frasier

Plot:

Ming Lo Moves the Mountain – Lobel

Three Little Javelinas - Lowell

Three Little Pigs

Other fairy tales: traditional vs. modern version

Cause & Effect:

Across the Stream - Ginsburg

Comet’s Nine Lives - Brett

Encounter – Yolen

If Up Take a Mouse to the Movies - Numeroff

If You Give a Moose a Muffin – Numeroff

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Numeroff

If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff

Napping House – Wood

River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz

Sierra – Siebert

That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler

Where the Wild Things Are - Sendak

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears – Aardema 398.2

Why the Chicken Crossed the Road - Macaulay

Point of View:

Black and White - Macaulay

Call Me Ahnighito – Conrad

Great Kapok Tree – Cherry

Great Shaking –Carson

Pain and the Great One – Blume

Something to Tell the Grandcows - Spinelli

Through Grandpa’s Eyes – MacLachlan

Tight Times – Hazen

True Story of the Three Little Pigs - Scieszka/Smith

Two Bad Ants – Van Allsburg

Voices in the Park - Browne

When I Was Young in the Mountains – Rylant

Barn – Atwell

Story Sequence:

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain - Aardema

Jumanji - Van Allsburg

King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub – Wood

The Mitten – Brett 398.2

Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak

Drawing conclusions/ Inferences:

Wreck of the Zephyr - Van Allsburg

Fact/Fiction:

Like Jake and me – Jukes

Perfect Puppy for Me – O’Connor & Hartland

Popcorn Book - de Paola 641.6

Rattlesnake Dance: True Tales, Mysteries, and Rattlesnake Ceremonies – Dewey 597.96

Stellaluna – Cannon

Verdi – Cannon

GENRES:

Autobiography:

Don’t You Know there’s a War On? – Stevenson, James

Through My Eyes – Bridges, Ruby

Biography:

Wilma Unlimited – Krull (Wilma Rudolph) 921 Rud

American Boy, the Adventures of Mark Twain – Brown 921 Twa

Fantasy:

Rootabaga Stories – Sandburg 808.8

Historical fiction:

Pink and Say – Polacco (Civil War)

Train to Somewhere – Bunting (Orphan Train)

(See Social Studies section for more.)

Mystery:

Grandpa’s Teeth – Clement

Realistic fiction:

Lady in the Box - McGovern

Your Move – Bunting

Science fiction:

Mission Ziffoid – Rosen

Nova’s Ark – Kirk

Tales: (See final two pages of Language Arts )

PARTS OF SPEECH:

Nouns:

A Cache of Jewels – Heller 428.1

A Mink, a Fink, a Skating rink, What is a Noun? - Cleary, Brian 428.2

Pronouns:

I and You and Don’t Forget Who – Cleary, Brian 428.2

Mine, All Mine – Heller 428.2s

Verbs:

Kites Sail High – Heller 428.2

Old Black Fly - Aylesworth

Prairie Dogs Kiss and Lobsters Wave: How Animals Say Hello – Singer 591.59

Pumpkin Soup – Cooper

To Root, to toot, to Parachute; What is a Verb? - Cleary, Brian 428.2

Zzzng! Zzzng! A Yoruba Tale – Gershator 398.24

Adjectives:

Hairy, Scary, Ordinary; What is an Adjective? - Cleary, Brian 428.2

Old Black fly – Aylesworth

Many Luscious Lollipops – Heller 428.2

That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler

Things that are Most in the World – Barrett

Adverbs:

Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely What is an Adverb? –Cleary, Brian 428.2

Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish – Obligado

Z Was Zapped - Van Allsburg 411

Prepositions:

Behind the Mask – Heller 428.2

Under, Over, by the Clover; What is a Preposition? – Cleary, Brian 428.2

Superlatives:

Things that are Most In the World –Barrett

Interjections and Conjunctions:

Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal! – Heller 425

Grammar:

Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm – Nolen

Old Jake’s Skirts – Slonim

Alliteration, Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives:

Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein 428.1

Compound Words:

Once there was a Bull… (frog) – Walton

WRITING SKILLS:

Letter Writing:

Armadillo from Amarillo – Cherry

Around the World, Who’s been Here? – George

Message in the Mailbox – Leedy 395

Stringbean’s Trip to the Shining Sea – Williams

Acrostic Poems:

Autumn, an Alphabet Acrostic – Schnur 793.73

Punctuation:

Punctuation takes a Vacation - Pulver

Vocabulary:

Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster – Frasier

Jokes & Riddles:

Funny You Should Ask: How to Make Up Jokes and Riddles with Wordplay – Terban 808

ABC Books:

A is for Salad – Lester

Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein 428.1

Animalia – Base

Antics – Hepworth 421

Many Nations, An Alphabet of Native Americans – Bruchac 970

Miss Spider’s ABC - Kirk

Old Black Fly – Aylesworth

Prairie Alphabet - Bannatyne-Cugnet 421

Prairie Primer A-Z – Stutson

Tomorrow’s Alphabet – Shannon 411

Wacky Wedding – Edwards

What Pete Ate A-Z - Kalman

Memorable Language:

Fireflies! – Brinckloe

Home Place – Dragonwagon

Jumanji – Van Allsburg

Letting Swift River Go – Yolen

Memory Box – Shanley

Midnight in the Mountains – Lawson

My Mama Had a Dancing Heart –Gray

Nothing Ever Happens on 90^th Street – Schotter

Owl Moon – Yolen

The Relatives Came – Rylant

Word Choice:

Amos & Boris – Steig

Chris Van Allsburg’s books

Home Place – Dragonwagon

Patricia Polacco’s books

Character Traits:

Amazing Grace – Hoffman

Amos & Boris – Steig

Chrysanthemum – Henkes

Crow Boy – Yashima

Miss Rumphius – Cooney

My Great Aunt Arizona – Houston 921 Hug

Song and Dance Man - Ackerman

Literacy:

Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair - Polacco

Thank You, Mr. Falker - Polacco

Fairy Tales:

Chickerella - Auch

Cindy Ellen, a Wild Western Cinderella - Lowell 398.2

Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea - Johnston

Egyptian Cinderella – Climo 398.2

Fanny’s Dream - Buehner

Frog Prince Continued - Scieszka

Gift of the Crocodile, A Cinderella Story - Sierra 398.2

Jim and the Beanstalk - Briggs 398.2

Kate and the Beanstalk – Osborne 398.2

Little Red Cowboy Hat - Lowell 398.2

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters -Steptoe

Paper Bag Princess - Munsch

Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood – Artell 398.2

Princess Furball - Huck

Squids Will Be Squids – Scieszka

Stinky Cheese Man – Scieszka

Three Cool Kids Emberley – 398.2

True Story of the Three Little Pigs –Scieszka

Yours Truly, Goldilocks - Ada

Fables:

Blind Men and the Elephant – Backstein 398.21

Fables – Lobel, Arnold

Tortoise and the Hare: an Aesop Fable – Stevens 398.2

Nursery Rhymes:

And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon - Stevens

Here Comes Mother Goose – Opie 398.8

Itsy Bitsy Spider - Trapani

Cumulative Tales:

Book that Jack Wrote - Scieszka

Napping House - Wood (also in Big Book form)

No More Jumping on the Bed - Arnoco

Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Taback

Old Woman and Her Pig - Kimmel

Shoes From Grandpa - Fox

Modern Tales:

Gruffalo – Donaldson

My Sister’s Rusty Bike – Aylesworth (tall tale)

Wordless books:

Free Fall - Wiesner

Sector 7 – Wiesner

Quotations:

Quotations for Kids – Senn 082

A World of Words, An ABC of Quotations – Tobias & Malone 811

MULTICULTURAL

Egypt:

The Day of Ahmed’s Secret - Heide

Appalachia:

Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds - Rylant

My Great-Aunt Arizona - Houston

Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree - Houston

Black History:

A Band of Angels - Hopkinson

Duke Ellington - Pinkney

The Story of Ruby Bridges - Coles

The Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields – Miller

Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker - Lasky

Amish:

An Amish Christmas - Ammon

Just Plain Fancy - Polacco

Raising Yoder’s Barn - Yolen

Russian:

The Keeping Quilt - Polacco

Japanese:

Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki

The Bracelet - Uchida

Grandfather’s Journey - Say

Irish:

O’Sullivan Stew – Talbott

Arab:

The Storytellers – Lewin

Mexican:

Uncle Rain Cloud – Johnston

African:

Village of Round and Square Houses – Grifalconi

Chinese:

Coolies – Yin

Argentina:

Gauchada – Lamm

PREJUDICE / TOLERANCE

Blind Men and the Elephant - Backstein

Friday Night at Hodges’ Café - Eagam

Widow’s Broom – Van Allsburg

Black:

Band of Angels: a Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers – Hopkinson

Other Side - Woodson

Teammates – Golenbock

Through My Eyes – Bridges, Ruby

Vision of Beauty: the Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker – Hannaway

Jewish:

Molly’s Pilgrim - Cohen

Physically Handicapped:

The Storm - Harshman (wheelchair)

Mentally Handicapped:

Be Good to Eddie Lee - Fleming (Down’s Syndrome)

Japanese:

The Bracelet – Uchida (WWII) internment camp)

So Far from the Sea - Bunting (WWII internment camp)

Homeless:

Fly Away Home - Bunting

Lady in the Box – McGovern

Uncle Willy’s Soup Kitchen – DiSalvo-Ryan

GETTING ALONG

Bad Case of Stripes - Shannon (being yourself)

Chrysanthemum - Henkes

Gershon’s Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year – Kimmel

Hey Little Ant – Hoose (respect; not looking down on others)

Hooway for Wodney Wat – Lester (acceptance)

Lizzie’s Invitation – Keller (being left out)

Stephanie’s Pony Tail - Munsch

Summer Wheels - Bunting

When Sophie Gets Angry - Bang (controlling anger)

Wings - Myers (being yourself, acceptance of others)

GRANDPARENTS / ELDERLY

Emma - Kesselman

Aunt Flossie’s Hats – Howard

Grandfather’s Journey -Say

Grandpa’s Face –Cooper

Grandpa’s Soup - Kadano

Homeplace – Shelby

Hundred Penny Box - Mathis

I Go With My Family To Grandma’s - Levinson

Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin

Miss Rumphius- Cooney

Not the Piano, Mrs. Medley! - Levine

Old Henry - Blos

Old Jake’s Skirts – Slonim

Old Woman Who Named Things - Rylant

Papa Lucky’s Shadow - Daly

Song and Dance Man - Ackerman

Sunday Outing - Pinkney

Thunder Cake – Polacco

Two of Them - Aliki

Tom - de Paola

Wednesday Surprise – Bunting

When I Was Young in the Mountains - Rylant

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partiridge – Fox

DEATH

Everett Anderson’s Goodbye – Clifton

Two of Them, The - Aliki

ECOLOGY

Great Kapok Tree – Cherry

Great Trash Bash - Leedy

Heron Street - Turner

Just a Dream - Van Allsburg

Legend of the Indian Paintbrush – dePaola

Letting Swift River Go - Yolen

Miss Rumphius – Cooney

Owl Moon – Yolen

River Ran Wild - Cherry

Sierra - Siebert (effects of removal of a link in the food chain/web)

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe – Williams

MUSIC

Blues of Flats Brown – Myers

Fiddlin’ Sam – Dengler

Froggy Plays with the Band – London

Flute Player: an Apache Folktale - Lacapa

M is for Melody: a Music Alphabet – Wargin

Remarkable Farkle McBride – Lithgow

Wood-hoopoe Willie – Kroll

ART

Art Lesson – De Paola

Katie Meets the Impressionists – Mayhew

Linnea in Monet’s Garden – Bjork

No Good in Art – Cohen

CHARACTER EDUCATION

BULLYING

Picture Books:

Just One Flick of a Finger - Lorbiecki (serious book about guns)

Nobody Knew What to Do: A Story About Bullying - McCain

Recess Queen – O’Neill

Say Something - Moss

Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

18^th Emergency - Byars

Bad Girls - Wilson

Berenstain Bears and the Bully - Berenstain

Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain- Romain 302.3

Bully of Barkham Street- Stolz

How to Be Cool in the Third Grade - Duffey

Jake Drake, Bully Buster- Clements

Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge -Shreve

Surviving Brick Johnson - Myers

Veronica Ganz - Sachs

Professional Books:

Bully Free Classroom: Over 100 Tips and Strategies for Teachers K-8 –Beane 371.102

Bully Proofing Your School – Garrity, et al. 372.17 Bul

How to Handle Bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies – Cohen-Posey 303.6

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander – Coloroso 371.7

SELF-WORTH

Picture Books:

Bad Case of Stripes - Shannon

Children’s Book of Virtues –Bennett 808.8 Chi

Chrysanthemum - Henkes

Gumbo goes Downtown - Talley

I’m Gonna Like Me- Curtis

Just Like Mike - Herman

Odd Velvet- Whitcomb

Otis – Bynum

Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann

Thank You, Mr. Falker - Polacco

Your Move - Bunting (pressure to be in a gang)

(Self-Worth)

Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

Bad Girls - Wilson

Freckle Juice - Blume

Girl With 500 Middle Names - Haddix

The Girls - Koss

Lizzie at Last - Mills

Star Girl - Spinelli

There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom - Sachar

Winners Take All - Bowen

Zach’s Lie – Smith

RESPONSIBILITY

Picture Books:

Amos and Boris - Steig

Apple Picking Time - Slawson

Berenstain Bears and the Blame Game - Berenstain

Brave Irene - Steig

Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi

Farmer Duck - Waddell

Full Belly Bowl - Aylesworth

Hana’s Year - Talley

I Did It, I’m Sorry - Buehner

It’s Up to You Griffin - Pickford

Sachiki Means Happiness - Sakal

Song and Dance Man - Ackerman

Swimmy - Lionni

Tops and Bottoms - Stevens

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge - Fox

Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

Dog on Barkham Street - Stolz

Family Under the Bridge - Carlson

Light at Tern Rock - Sauer

Marvin Redpost, Alone in His Teacher’s House - Sachar

Night Swimmers - Byars

On My Honor - Bauer

One-Eyed Cat - Fox

Sign of the Beaver -Speare

Stone Fox - Gardiner

Summer Wheels - Bunting

RESPECT

Picture Books:

Amos & Boris - Steig

Arthur’s Eyes - Brown

Arthur’s Nose - Brown

Chicken Sunday - Polocca

Crow Boy - Yashima

Frog and Toad Together - Lobel

Great Kapok Tree - Cherry

Hey Little Ant - Hoose

Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse - Henkes

No Good in Art - Cohen

Quarreling Book - Zolotow

Richard Wright and the Library Card - Miller

Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann

Sachiko Means Happiness - Sakai

Smoky Night - Bunting

Stellaluna - Cannon

Strega Nona - De Paola

Two of Them - Aliki

Ugly Duckling - Anderson

Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

Bully of Barkham Street - Stolz

Hundred Penny Box - Mathis

Nothing’s Fair in the Fifth Grade - DeClements

Zucchini - Dana

COURAGE

Picture Books:

Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart - Williams

Brand New Kid - Couric (courage to accept someone different)

Brave as a Mountain Lion – Scott

Brave Irene - Steig

Cello of Mr. O - Cutler

Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi

Courage - Waber

Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare - DeBeer

Thunder Cake - Polacco

Very First Last Time - Andrews

Courage Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

Call It Courage - Sperry

Courage of Sarah Noble - Dalgliesh

Drinking Gourd - Monjo

Hatchet - Paulsen

Helen Keller - Keller 921 Kel

Sarah, Plain and Tall - MacLachlan

Sign of the Beaver - Speare

Snow Treasure - McSwigan

Whipping Boy - Fleischman

CARING/COMPASSION

Picture Books:

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Viorst

Big Al - Clements

Chair for My Mother - Williams

Children’s Book of Virtues – Bennett 808.8 Chi

Crow Boy - Yashima

How Many Days to America?- Bunting

Mean Soup - Everitt

Owl Moon - Yolen

Rainbow Fish - Pfister

Sachiko Means Happiness - Sakai

Smoky Night - Bunting

Three Questions - Muth

Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen - DiSalvo-Ryan

Under the Lemon Moon - Fine

Wednesday Surprise - Bunting

Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Robinson

Hundred Dresses - Estes

Molly’s Pilgrim - Cohen

Pinballs - Byars (Lit Set)

Randall’s Wall - Fenner

Secret Life of the Underwear Champ - Miles

HONESTY

Picture Books:

Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi

Day’s Work - Bunting

Empty Pot - Demi 398.2

Gold Coin - Ada

Honest to Goodness Truth - McKissack

I Did It, I Am Sorry - Buehner

Plato’s Journey - Talley

Sam, Bangs and Moonshine - Ness

Smoky Night - Bunting

The Summer My Father Was Ten - Brisson

Too Many Tamales - Soto

Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

The Cheat - Koss

Death at Devil’s Bridge - DeFelice

Nothing But the Truth - Avi

On My Honor - Bauer

COOPERATION

Picture Books:

Berlioz the Bear- Fic Brett

Farmer Duck - Waddell

Story of Jumping Mouse - Steptoe 398.2

Swimmy – Lionni

Uncle Jed’s Barbershop - Mitchell

Wild Christmas Reindeer - Brett

PERSEVERANCE

Picture Books:

Alexander and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Viorst

Amazing Grace - Hoffman

Apple Picking Time - Slawson

Brave Irene - Steig

Chair for My Mother - Williams

Empty Pot - Demi 398.2

Galimoto - Williams

How Many Days to America - Bunting

Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin (Perseverance - continued on next page)

Ox-Cart Man - Hall

Pumpkin Runner – Arnold

Rocks in His Head - Hurst

Story of Jumping Mouse - Steptoe 398.2

Swimmy - Lionni

Tortoise and the Hare - Stevens

Uncle Jed’s Barbershop - Mitchell

Wagon Wheels - Brenner

Wednesday Surprise - Bunting

Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph became the World’s Fastest Woman – Krull 921

Perseverance Read-aloud Chapter Books:

Jason’s Gold - Hobbs

Helen Keller – Keller 921

Hatchet - Paulsen

There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom - Sachar

INTEGRITY

Picture Books:

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible…- Viorst

Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi

Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann

Read-aloud Chapter Books:

Death at Devil’s Bridge - DeFelice

ANGER

Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move - Viorst

Amazing Millika - Parkison

Andrew’s Angry Words - Lachner

I’m Furious - Crary

Quarreling Book - Zolotow

Smoky Night - Bunting

Uncle Rain Cloud - Johnston

When Sophie Gets Angry - Bang

Picture Book Biographies

Snowflake Bentley – Martin

Revolutionary John Adams – Harness

Fossil Girl, Mary Anning’s Dinosaur Discovery – Brighton

Daring Nellie Bly, America’s Star Reporter – Christensen

Story of Ruby Bridges – Coles

Seeker of Knowledge, the Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs – Rumford

Librarian who Measured the Earth – Hawkes

Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin – Giblin

Galileo – Fisher

Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man – Adler

Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins – Kerley

Uncommon Traveler, Mary Kingsley in Africa – Brown

Hero and the Holocaust, the story of Janusz Korczak and His Children – Adler

Ruth Law Thrills a Nation – Brown

Leonardo Da Vinci – Stanley

Lindbergh – Demarest

Michelangelo – Stanley

When Esther Morris Headed West – Wooldridge

Shooting for the Moon, the Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley – Krensky

Bill Pickett, Rodeo-Ridin’ Cowboy – Pinkney

They Called Her Molly Pitcher – Rockwell

Promises to Keep, How Jackie Robinson Changed America – Robinson, Sharon

Norman Rockwell, Storyteller with a Brush – Gherman

Voice from the Wilderness, Story of Anna Howard Shaw – Brown

Vision of Beauty, the Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker – Lasky

Duke Ellington – Pinkney

Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields – Miller

Cinderella Variations

Bubba, the Cowboy Prince – Ketteman

Chickerella - Auch

Cindy Ellen, a Wild Western Cinderella – Lowell

Dinorella – Edwards

Egyptian Cinderella – Climo

Fanny’s Dream – Buehner

Gift of the Crocodile, a Cinderella Story – Sierra

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – Steptoe

Princess Furball – Huck

Rough-face Girl – Martin

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