Kids Book Index
Laura Gehl
A clever pup finds a cozy home and wants to remain there. To fit the homeowner’s needs, she pretends to be household objects: a pillow, a footstool, and a jacket. The story follows the dog’s efforts to stay and ends with her being herself, rather than continuing to impersonate something else. The homeowner is lonely, and the dog’s disguises shape their unusual encounter.
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Julián Is a MermaidJessica LoveOn a subway ride home from the pool with his abuela, Julián sees three women dressed like mermaids, with brightly colored hair and fishtail dresses. At home, he keeps thinking about what he saw and makes his own mermaid costume from a yellow curtain and fern fronds. Julián wants to become a mermaid and take part in the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.Under FiveLexile Text Measure 190LATOS Book Level 0.8On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed ScienceJoyce SidmanThis visual biography follows Maria Merian, a seventeenth-century German naturalist, entomologist, and artist. It explores her life, her work observing living insects, and her scientific discoveries about metamorphosis. Merian pursued knowledge and insects despite conventions that limited women, documenting what she learned in her art. The book incorporates photographs, maps, archival material, and reproductions of her drawings, including many of her original paintings. Together, these materials connect her artwork with her investigations of insect life.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Myth MatchGood Wives, Warriors (Partnership)Myth Match is an interactive flipbook of magical and mythical creatures from around the world. Its pages allow readers to combine the front and back halves of different beasts, making new creatures of their own. Alongside familiar figures such as unicorns and griffins, the book introduces imagined combinations, including a unifin, and presents its creatures in illustrated bestiary form. The illustrations can be mixed rather than viewed in one fixed arrangement.All readersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details