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Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day
Loreen Leedy (2007), 32 pages
Illustrated by Loreen Leedy
Audience: Preschool - 3rd Grade
At the Edible Pyramid restaurant, animals learn how to create a balanced diet. Using gentle, cheery illustrations, each area of the food pyramid is introduced with many examples of items belonging in each group. This picture book offers a simple introduction to a complex topic and could be used for teaching the idea of eating a balanced variety of foods even if someone is not specifically interested in the food pyramid.
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 10/28/2010
ISBN-10: 0823420744
ISBN-13: 9780823420742
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Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct
Mo Willems (2006), 40 pages
Illustrated by Mo Willems
Audience: Preschool - 2nd Grade
Edwina is the beloved town dinosaur. She bakes cookies, plays with the kids, and does favors. There is just one problem: dinosaurs are extinct, and Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie knows it. Will he prove it? What will become of Edwina?
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 7/30/2010
ISBN-10: 0786837489
ISBN-13: 9780786837489
Unlike all the other gray elephants, Elmer is brightly colored in a patchwork design. He's the life of the party, and he loves to make his elephant friends laugh. One day, he starts to feel sad that he doesn't look like the rest of the herd, so he sets off on a journey to change his color. He finds a way to turn himself gray, but no one recognizes him, and no one is laughing anymore. What will Elmer do?
Similar books: Elmer Again, Elmer in the Snow, Elmer and Wilbur, Elmer Takes Off, Elmer and the Lost Teddy, Elmer's Special Day, Elmer and Rose
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 6/17/2010
ISBN-10: 0688091717
ISBN-13: 9780688091712
Elmo Says Achoo!
Sarah Albee (2000), 32 pages
Illustrated by Tom Brannon
Audience: Preschool - 1st Grade
This colorful beginning reader with picture book appeal is a rhyming tale about Elmo and his sneeze. Suitable either as a read-aloud for preschool Elmo fans or as an independent read for early readers needing simple sentences and ample picture clues, this entertaining read offers a rhythmic text, humor, and bright illustrations. (Reading Level: 1.7)
Book Series: Early Step into Reading
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 12/30/2010
ISBN-10: 0613951190
ISBN-13: 9780613951197
Elves and the Shoemaker
Jim LaMarche (2003), 32 pages
Illustrated by Jim LaMarche
Audience: Preschool - 2nd Grade
A poor shoemaker has just enough leather to make one last pair of shoes. This one possession stands between him and ruin. He sets out the precious cut leather in the evening so that he can sew it the following day. When he awakens, there has been a miracle! The leather has already been fashioned perfectly into a spectacular pair of shoes. These shoes bring in enough money to double the shoemaker's resources. In the following days, a mysterious source continues to sew beautiful shoes for the man, rescuing him from poverty. Who is making these shoes? How will the shoemaker ever repay them?
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 7/26/2010
ISBN-10: 0811834778
ISBN-13: 9780811834773
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