Kids Book Index
Sherri Duskey Rinker
Steam Train, Dream Train: Colors follows a train made up of cars in different rainbow colors. A lively crew of animals travels with the train as the book presents the colors through its cars and rhyming text. The journey combines trains, animal passengers, and vivid color-focused scenes. Its cozy rhymes and illustrations frame the colors as part of the train’s nighttime, dreamlike world.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Every Day BirdsAmy Ludwig VanDerwaterThis illustrated nonfiction book introduces twenty familiar bird species through close-up cut-paper collage art and brief observations about each one’s distinctive features or behavior. Chickadees, jays, finches, sparrows, eagles, and other birds appear across the pages. Opening and closing spreads invite children to watch birds around them, while the end matter offers further details about the featured birds and suggestions for continuing their observations.Under FiveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
ShyDeborah Freedman, illustrated by Deborah FreedmanShy is a book-loving giraffe whose particular interest is birds. He has learned about them from books, yet meeting one beyond the page proves much harder. When a real bird trills nearby, Shy wants to get to know her but is too nervous to leave the book’s gutter. The story follows his attempt to make contact, using colorful mixed-media artwork to show a reticent character facing the gap between reading about something and encountering it.Under FiveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Henry & LeoPamela ZagarenskiLeo is Henry’s stuffed toy, but Henry understands him as both a best friend and a brother. To Henry, Leo is as real as the natural world around him. When the two are accidentally separated, Henry’s family does not believe Leo can make his way home. The story follows the meaning Leo holds for Henry and the challenge created when that cherished companion is gone.Under FiveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details