BKs4Ks

 

Be Creative!

 

1,2,3 I can draw!

Irene Luxbacher

Encourages play and experimentation with everyday materials and tools. Budding artists will proudly say, “I can draw!”

 

12 Easy Knitting Projects

Peg Blanchette and Terri Thibault

Even if you have never picked up knitting needles before, Peg and Terri will have you knitting in no time flat! 12 all new projects that use the ‘coolest’ of the ‘hot’ new yarns.

 

My First Monologue book

K. Dabrowski

A collection of one hundred short monologues for use by actors ages five to eight for auditions and other purposes, on topics of interest to young readers, including unfair bedtimes, making friends, and losing teeth.

 

Angelina, star of the show

Katharine Holabird

Angelina can hardly wait to perform her new dance at the Mouseland Dance Festival.

 

Ballet school

Naia Bray-Moffatt and David Handley

Activities at a ballet studio where young children warm up, practice the five basic positions, exercise at the barre, and watch teenage ballet dancers perform

 

Best story

Eileen Spinelli

The best story is one that comes from the heart The library is having a contest for the best story, and the quirky narrator of this story just has to win that rollercoaster ride with her favorite author! But what makes a story the best?

 

Big book of magic fun

Ian Keable

Young readers will learn to entertain and astound their friends with impressive yet easy-to-perform tricks and enchanting illusions.

 

I Am a Dancer

Pat Collins

Poet Pat Lowery Collins shows children that their everyday motions–catching a ball, reaching up to a shelf, or shuffling through the rain–can contain all of the elements of a dance. Mark Graham’s lovely oil paintings give the reader a new appreciation of the beauty of natural movements.

 

Draw me a star

Eric Carle

An artist’s drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.

 

Folding for fun : origami for ages 4 and up

Didier Boursin

An illustrated book of paper-folding projects, from accordion books to noisemakers. This book has all the basic origami with patterns for a box, a plane, a boat, and lots more.

 

Froggy plays in the band

Jonathan London

Froggy’s marching band practices for their debut at the Apple Blossom Parade, hoping to win the big prize.

 

Garden fun! : indoors & out, in pots & small spots

Vicky Congdon

Provides step-by-step instructions for twenty-eight indoor or outdoor gardening adventures, including a salad garden window box, a spiral flower garden, and a butterfly paradise in a patio pot.

 

Haiku : Asian arts & crafts for creative kids

Patricia Donegan

Introduces the form of Japanese poetry known as haiku, explores the seven keys to writing haiku, and provides instructions for five haiku projects, including creating haiga, or illustrated haiku.

 

Horrible Harry bugs the three bears

Suzy Kline

Harry incorporates his fascination with earwigs into Miss Mackle’s class project of acting out a fairy tale in front of the other third graders.

 

It’s your room: a decorating guide for real kids

Janice Weaver

Helpful tips, useful advice, and practical guidance provides readers with a how-to guide to transform and update a bedroom to fit one’s true style and personality, complete with steps for a complete clean-up, setting up zones, choosing paint colors, and more.

 

Kids Can Press jumbo book of music

Deborah Dunleavy

Includes fun and easy instructions on how to make and play instruments from all over the world, from creating a thumb piano to playing a didgeridoo, and gives readers a chance to make music without any technical musical knowledge.

 

Kids learn to knit

Lucinda Guy & François Hall

Introduces knitting, including what it is, materials, basic stitches–such as the knit, purl, and stockinette–knitting shapes, knitting with a spool, and six easy projects.

 

Kid’s write

Rebecca Olien

From writing a script for a puppet show to designing a treasure map, this helpful guide introduces various forms of writing and encourages children to attempt to try their hand at creating original work of their own through activities, suggestions, and fun projects.

 

Last holiday concert

Andrew Clements

Life is usually easy for popular sixth-grader Hart Evans, but when his music teacher puts him in charge of the holiday concert, Hart must use all of his leadership skills to unite the other students

 

Make it! Don’t throw it! Make something amazing!

Jane Bull

Designed to encourage children to participate in Earth-friendly activities, this colorful craft handbook presents an assortment of ideas on how youngsters can use and reuse items around the house to transform trash into treasure.

 

Monsters!: draw your own mutants, freaks and creeps

Jay Stephens

Helps budding cartoonists develop and draw fantastic monsters, with information on creating weird eyes, strange skin textures, bizarre legs and arms, and a host of creepy facial features.

 

Replay: a new book

Sharon Creech

While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up, in a story which includes the text for the play, Rumpopo’s Porch.

 

Simple sleight of hand: Card and Coin Tricks for the Beginning Magician

Paul Zenon

Shows how to do easy magic tricks, beginning with cards and coins.

 

Song and dance man

Karen Ackerman

Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer.

 

Wild girls

Pat Murphy

When thirteen-year-old Joan moves to California in 1972, she becomes friends with Sarah, who is timid at school but an imaginative leader when they play in the woods, and after winning a writing contest together they are recruited for an exclusive summer writing class that gives them new insights into themselves and others.

 

 

 

 

 

 2008

CATCH THE READING BUG
Creepy, Crawly Reads

JPB (Juvenile Picture Books) En Espanol Aquí

Diary of a Fly
By Doreen Cronin

A young fly discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being an insect, including the dangers of flypaper.

Perfect Pet 

By Marge Palatini

After Elizabeth’s parents do not agree with her various suggestions for the perfect pet, she discovers a solution.

Very Clumsy Click Beetle
By Eric Carle

A clumsy young click beetle learns to land on its feet with encouragement from various animals and a wise old beetle.

Waiting for Wings
By Lois Ehlert

Learn about the lifecycle of the butterfly.

JE (Early Readers)

Horrible Harry and the Triple Revenge
By Suzy Kline

When Sid, his annoying third-grade classmate, ruins Song Lee’s origami praying mantis, Horrible Harry plots triple revenge on the troublemaker.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly Guy
By Tedd Arnold

After accidentally swallowing her grandson’s pet fly, Grandma tries to retrieve it by consuming progressively larger animals.

J Fiction

 
By E.B. White

Charlotte’s Web

Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer’s Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.

Cricket in Times Square
By George Selden

The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.

Gotcha!
By Jamie Gilson

While trying to learn about spiders in Mrs. Zookey’s class, Richard becomes the target of Patrick the Pest’s pranks.

Red Butterfly: How a Princess Smuggled the Secret of Silk Out of China
By Deborah Noyes

In long-ago China, as a young princess prepares to leave her parents’ kingdom to travel to far-off Khotan where she is to marry the king, she decides to surreptitiously take with her a precious reminder of home.

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
Verna Aardema

Reveals the meaning of the mosquito’s buzz.

J Nonfiction

Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock
By Eric Kimmel

Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.

The Ant and the Grasshopper: a retelling of Aesop’s fable
By Mark White

An industrious ant busily prepares for the approaching winter while a grasshopper makes no plans for the cold weather to come.

Bugs Up Close
By Diane Swanson

Fascinating facts about buggy anatomy and behavior.

Everything Bug: What Kids Really Want to Know About Insects and Spiders
By Cherie Winner

Presents 25 questions and answers about insects and spiders, including why bugs are important, how long they’ve existed, and whether spiders make noise.

50 Awesome Ways Kids Can Help Animals: Fun and Easy Ways to Be a Kind Kid
By Ingrid Newkirk

Includes a chapter entitled: “Be Kind to Bugs.”
Joyful Noise
By Paul Fleischman

A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.
Monarch and Milkweed
By Helen Frost

Explains the life cycle of the monarch butterfly.
Song of the Water Boatman
By Joyce Sidman

A poetic look at some of the animals, insects, and plants found in ponds.
Spiders
By Nic Bishop

Text and photographs introduce readers to different types of spiders and their behavior.

The Tarantula in My Purse and 172 Other Wild Pets
By Jean Craighead George

A collection of autobiographical stories about raising unusual pets.
Tarantula Scientist
By Sy Montgomery

Describes the research that Samuel Marshall and his students are doing on tarantulas, including the largest spider on earth, the Goliath bird-eating tarantula.

Buggy Views
Delightful DVDs

Anansi and the Talking Melon

Trapped inside one of Elephant’s melons after eating too much, Anansi speaks to Elephant – who is convinced he has grown a talking melon.
Ant Bully

When you’re as small as an ant, the world is big – and the adventure is bigger! That’s what young Lucas learns after he aims his water pistol at some hapless ants. They retaliate with a secret potion that shrinks him down to their size.

All About Bugs

Learn about many different kinds of bugs, including their common characteristics and the special roles they play in the circle of life.
Bugs: a Rainforest Adventure

Explores the extraordinary hidden world of insects where a leaf weighs more than a car and a blade of grass soars like a skyscraper. The Borneo rainforest brings the beautiful and dangerous universe of its tiny stars up close and personal. Cutting-edge technology magnifies the bugs up to 250,000 times their normal size.

A Bug’s Life

Journey inside the miniature world of bugs where an ant named Flik hires warrior bugs to defend his colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers.

Charlotte’s Web

Fern is a young farm girl who rescues the runt, Wilbur. Wilbur the pig is saved from certain death and Fern visits him every day at her Uncle Homer’s farm. But it’s Wilbur’s friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the “smoke house.” Charlotte’s talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her web turns the Zuckerman farm into a tourist attraction.

Charlotte’s Web 2

Wilbur the pig knows how important friendship is – he learned that from Charlotte. So when Wilbur meets the lonely lamb Cardigan, he immediately strikes up a friendship. When Cardigan gets sold to another farmer, he realizes that he must embark on an unforgettable journey to find his friend.

Insect (Eyewitness series)

Zoom in on a world of creatures that are industrious, sociable, and environmentally useful, but that are nevertheless avoided and ignored. Safely examine the wonders of the insect through macro-photography and startling 3-D graphics that reveal the true importance of these amazing life forms.

Magic School Bus Bugs, Bugs, Bugs

Buzz, flutter and march into three tiny new worlds with Ms. Frizzle. Discover the sticky home of a bee, the industrious life of an ant, and the surprising identity of a caterpillar.