Kids Book Index
Janik Coat
This board book presents 17 pairs of homophones through stylized llama illustrations. Each spread sets two sound-alike words beside two matching visual jokes: llamas can appear as a pair or as a pear, on a stair or caught in a stare, as a fairy or aboard a ferry. The book uses the contrast between words that sound alike and their different meanings to build its playful animal scenes.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
A Parade of ElephantsKevin HenkesFive small, brightly colored elephants travel together in a line from morning until night. Their march takes them up and down, under and over, and around and around, introducing ideas of direction and movement through their route. The elephants remain together through the day before ending with a trumpet and going to sleep at night.Under FiveLexile Text Measure 47LATOS Book Level 0.9On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Ducks Away!Mem FoxMother Duck tries to lead her five ducklings over a bridge, but they fall into the river one at a time. As each duckling drops into the water, the mother becomes increasingly upset. With the final duckling’s encouragement, she follows them into the river herself. The story centers a mother and her ducklings as they face this brief bridge-crossing mishap.Under FiveLexile Text Measure 241LATOS Book Level 2On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein’s CreatorCatherine ReefThis biography traces Mary Shelley’s life before and after she wrote Frankenstein at nineteen. It examines the influence of her feminist-writer mother, teacher-and-publisher father, and relationship with the poet Percy Shelley. Mary and Percy moved often, faced debt and rumors of infidelity, and lost three of their four children before Percy drowned at twenty-nine. Despite Frankenstein’s success, Mary struggled to support herself and her son through later writing and editorial work.Twelve to FourteenOn one of the same reading listsView book details