Jacqueline Woodson
Ages 3–8
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpré Illustrator Award winner Rafael López have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.
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The one I hand parents when a child feels like the odd one out. It does not lecture its way out of that feeling.
Ages 3-8. First days, new schools, that Sunday-night stomach.
Who in this book feels like you? Who still feels new?
Let them finish the line: “There will be times when you walk into a room and…” with something true from their week.
Two titles that deepen the same conversation.
Ages 3–8
Brer Rabbit, the great tug-o-warJohn Agard
Of course, the match ends in a dead heat, but the contestants take it all in good humour when they discover how they've been fooled. After all, as Brer Rabbit tells them, 'friendship is longer than rope'.
Ages 3–8
JimiGary Golio
Before he became one of the greatest guitar players of all time, Jimi Hendrix was a boy who loved to paint and listen to records, and who asked himself an unusual question: could someone paint pictures with sound?
Ages 3–8
Little Bear's VisitElse Holmelund Minarik
(Age 4-8) (Preschool to Gr 3) **Little Bear enjoys his visits with his Grandmother and Grandfather Bear. He likes Grandfather’s hat and Grandmother’s cooking. But most of all, he loves to listen to their stories!**
Ages 3–8
Not Quite Snow WhiteAshley Franklin
A boy named Thelonious Mitchell is in special ed and supposedly has "issues". That makes all the teachers and students look at him and his friends with a constant side-eye. When a gun is found at a neighborhood hangout, Thelonius and his pals become instant suspects. Thelonius may be guilty of pulling crazy stunts at school, but a criminal? Thelonious has to find a way to prove himself innocent and the guns owner guilty. Fans of Jason Reynolds and Sharon M. Draper will love this oh-so-honest middle grade novel from writer and educator Maurice Broaddus.
Ages 3–8
Smitty Tackles BullyingWade Smith
When Smitty learns that his friend, Luke, and Georgina, who teases him, both have trouble reading, he begins helping them after school.
Ages 3–8
StevieJohn Steptoe
When Stevie comes to visit, Robert finds him to be quite a pest, but when the little boy moves away, Robert misses him One day Robert's mother told him, 'You know you're gonna have a little friend come stay with you.'So little Stevie came.
Ages 3–8
The Snowy DayEzra Jack Keats
Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal, Keats' story of a young boy experiencing the year's first snowfall has delighted millions of readers. Peter, The Snowy Day's protagonist, wakes up to the season’s first snowfall. In his bright red snowsuit, he goes outside and makes footprints and trails through the snow. Peter is too young to join a snowball fight with older kids, so he makes a snowman and snow angels and slides down a hill. He returns home with a snowball stashed in his pocket. Before he goes to bed, Peter is sad to discover the snowball has melted. The next day, he wakes up to tons more falling snow. With a friend, he ventures outside again.
Ages 3–8
Tots Tea Party (Tots TV - Board Books)Joan Hickson
Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.
