Kids Book Index
Linda Booth Sweeney
A picture book about how separate things can combine and become something new. Its examples include blue and yellow making green, bees and flowers producing honey, and soap mixed with water becoming foam. Bright, energetic full-page illustrations accompany the idea that parts can create a different whole when they come together.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
10 CatsEmily Gravett, illustrated by Emily GravettTen kittens play while their mother sleeps, pouncing, batting, and swatting around buckets of paint. Their games leave both the kittens and their sleeping mother covered in color. When Mama Cat wakes, the play changes into bath time. The picture book also incorporates counting, colors, and spot-the-difference pages.Ages 02–04Word Count 33On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Dear StrayKirsten HubbardA young girl adopts a tigerish stray kitten from a shelter, though her family questions her choice. She recognizes that she and the kitten both lash out when they feel uncomfortable. The girl gives the kitten patience and space, treating it as she herself wishes to be treated. Diary entries show the pair learning to connect and trust one another.Under FiveLexile Text Measure AD750LATOS Book Level 4.8On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
B Is for BananasCarrie Tillotsoni, llustrated by Estrella LourençoThis alphabet-story book follows a Banana who rejects the narrator’s effort to make the alphabet journey into a bedtime tale. As the letters proceed, Banana insists that, as the book’s star, the story ought to focus on bananas instead. The result is a comic clash between narrator and character, with the banana resisting bedtime amid deliberately zany alphabet antics. It moves through every letter while its would-be bedtime framing is challenged.Under FiveLexile Text Measure AD350LATOS Book Level 2.5On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details