Kids Book Index
Kate McMullan
Three children learn about the ways young animals sleep. Rhyming text describes bedtime habits among animals including squirrels, parrots, and dolphins. The book ranges across several kinds of animals and their nighttime routines, with mixed-media illustrations accompanying the descriptions. Its animal subjects provide the focus as the children encounter different approaches to sleep.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Layla’s HappinessMariahadessa Ekere TallieLayla explores what happiness means through her connections with family, friends, and community. She keeps a happiness book as she considers the people and experiences that bring her joy. The book asks readers to consider happiness for themselves as well. Its focus remains with Layla’s personal reflections and the relationships around her, presenting happiness as something she notices and records in her own life.Under FiveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Home BuildersVarsha BajajThrough the seasons, bees, beavers, deer, eagles, foxes, owls, and turtles make or ready shelters. They dig, gnaw, gather, and otherwise construct dens, lodges, and nests for their young. The animals also take cover during storms and care for their offspring as the young begin venturing into the world. Rhyming text accompanies illustrations that use mixed media, soft colors, and rounded shapes, ending with a nighttime scene.Under FiveLexile Text Measure 660LATOS Book Level 4.3On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
How to Be a CatNikki McClure, illustrated by Nikki McClureA small kitten spends a day practicing the behaviors of a larger cat. The book presents feline skills as the kitten learns from a cat and tests what it can do. Its central question asks whether such a young kitten can manage all the things a big cat can. The story is presented as a board book about a kitten’s everyday feline activities.Under FiveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details