Reviews

With simple illustrations and short sentences, Duck! Rabbit! is a great choice to keep younger kids focused and engaged in the story, while introducing the idea that points of view can differ and still be right. (Fountas & Pinnell Level D)

The Caldecott award is given annually to illustrator of the “most distinguished American picture book for children” (ALA). The Hello, Goodbye Window, written by Norton Juster and illustrated by Chris Raschka, won the Caldecott Medal in 2006. This delightful book shows..

Check out Reading Seed’s Lending Library for old and new versions of classic fairy tales and folk tales. Your students will enjoy reading and comparing these great stories. Search the Lending Library’s online catalog for stories like the Little Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs, Little Red Hen…

Gerald the Elephant and Piggie are the stars of the Elephant and Piggie books written by award winning author/illustrator Mo Willems. Several of these wonderful books were recently given to Reading Seed…

This delightful book is a creative twist on the traditional story of The Three Little Pigs.

The Dippy family were messy eaters. Actually, they were real slobs. Joy Cowley is the author of this over-sized, (approximately 19” by 15”) low level book that features a family that enjoy their food a little too much.

In the empty lot behind Mr. Sneelock’s store, young Morris McGurk is starting a circus.  It’s colossal! Stupendous! Terrific! Tremendous!  It’s the Circus McGurkus with Truffles and Huffles and Juggling Jotts and Grizzly-Ghastlys and more.  Do you think Mr. Sneelock will mind when he finds that he has a big circus behind his store? (Fountas [...]

Big Moon Tortilla is set in a Tohono O’odham village in southern Arizona. Marta loses her homework and breaks her glasses but her grandmother cheers her up…

In this wonderful book, the traditional story of the Three Little Pigs gets twisted around.  The wolves are good, the pig is big and bad and the houses are made of brick, concrete block and armor plates.  Children and adults will enjoy the cleverness of the pig, who gets creative when huffing and puffing doesn’t [...]

Clarence Goes out West and Meets a Purple Horse is written and illustrated by Arizona resident Jean Ekman Adams.