Kids Book Index
Calef Brown
This poetry collection introduces an eerie cast of characters and situations, including a zombie family gathering, a “Jekyll lantern,” a laughing undertaker, and a telekinetic warlock. Its poems also feature vengeful canaries and insect pie. The book moves through creepy and gross-out images, using verse to assemble a parade of strange figures and unsettling delights.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Mapping SamJoyce HesselberthSam, a cat, makes a nighttime trip through her neighborhood. Maps, diagrams, and charts trace where she goes and present her route from differing points of view. Alongside the story of Sam’s walk, the book shows that maps can represent places ranging from streets and subway lines to cities and countries, and can help explain where things are and how to travel between them.All readersLexile Text Measure AD700LATOS Book Level 3On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Water Land: Land and Water Forms Around the WorldChristy HaleDie-cut pages compare bodies of water with corresponding landforms, changing one into the other as pages turn. A lake becomes an island, a bay becomes a cape, and a gulf becomes a peninsula. The book labels forms such as straits, systems of lakes, isthmuses, and archipelagos. A multi-page foldout supplies brief definitions, examples from around the world, and a map locating some of them.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Great Cheese Robbery (Pocket Pirates, vol. 1)Chris MouldInside a dusty ship in a bottle at the end of a street, a miniature pirate crew emerges whenever nobody is watching. The Pocket Pirates are small enough to be compared with a matchstick, but they seek adventure. When mice seize Jones, the ship’s cat, and demand cheese in return, the pirates set out to rescue him from the mice.All readersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details