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This book teaches children how various animals and insects build their homes. It encourages children to think from the perspective of the animal and explains how the child would build their home if they were, say, a paper wasp, chewing bits of wood into pulp and shaping it into hexagonal sections of a nest.

This book can be used to teach the concept of prediction. If students have not encountered the word Fiesta we can brainstorm what it might mean to have a fiesta based on the pictures and what we think it would look like to have a party. We could also use the book to compare and contrast the different aspects of parties around the world. The book can be introduced to demonstrate that there are different ways to have a party and how they may be different and the same and why we think people have parties through out the world.

discusses the different things that fallen leaves do during autumn (we jump in the leaves, we put them into piles)
7 books

22 months - simple with a good rhyme, it's hard to find good Easter books and this one is cute and fun.

Kit includes book, teacher's guide with lesson plans, and VHS tape

Where Do Kisses Come From?
I liked “Where Do Kisses Come From?” by Little Golden Books. The book incorporates several different zoo animals to tell the story. For example, there are monkeys, zebras and elephants all used in the illustrations. The illustrations are cartoon like and fill the pages with bright colors and the text is generally only one sentence per page. The page with the monkeys has only one sentence at the bottom that says, “They come from tummy tickles and other silly giggly games”. Another reason I like this book is its use of alliteration. “Tummy tickles”, and “silly songs” are two examples of this use. Overall this is a good book for young readers, but I’m not sure how it could be incorporated into the classroom. The big idea is kisses come from love.

This book goes through why you get kisses from your mom or those who love you. I would not use this book in my classroom because it does not relate to curriculum at all. PreK-2.

A good informational and colorful book about leaves.This is a very good beginning reading book.

Summary:
This book shows how many different reasons you can give kisses. Kisses can come from your smile. You could have I miss you kisses or you can have just because kisses. But in the end all kisses come from love.

Personal reaction:
I personally love this book because I am a very affectionate parent and love to kiss on my babies but at this same time I do kiss their boo boos, I kiss them when they leave or when they come home, I kiss them when I tuck them into bed at night and all of these kisses come from love.

Classroom extension:
I think one way I would have a classroom extension on this book is to make a card to the children's loved one and let them tell the person they are going to give the card to why they love them. Then I would let everyone (yes even the boys) put on lip stick and kiss the front of the card.
Another extension would be to read this book around Valentines Day and let the children cut out lip shapes out of paper and tell their loved ones just how much they love them on the lip shaped paper.

A nice colorful book for young readers. It would be a wonderful book for a fall outdoor field trip if the school is near a woods or wooded area. I like that the words are simple even though they are scientific. It is a good start book for learning about trees.

Review: This is not a very good example of an informational book. Although it talks about different kinds of kisses for children it does not have any sort of table of contents or index for finding specific information.

Media: Pencil and Watercolor

This is a sweet family story. It is great for reading anytime. It can be used in family lessons for small children.

Age Appropriateness: Primary
Genre: Fantasy
This is a fantasy book because it is based on kisses given by parent animals to thier animal children. Of course animals do not talk like humans so this is a fantasy book.

This book is a good example of fantasy because the author and illustrator choose to use animals to be in scenes that animals do not do, such as Hippos rollerskating. The artwork in this book says that it was done in pencil by Janice Kinnealy then colored in by DRi Artworks (which I assume means that the illustrator drew the drawing in pencil and then they colored them in digitally). The point of view in this book is done in third person, a limited third person.

What Grows Underground? shows children what different vegetables grow underground. Children will learn some veggies that they have not been introduced to before, such as the raddish.

This book gives children ideas for halloween and shows them that this is one night of the year that you can be anything you want... except yourself!

Informative book about leaf types and the scientific compilation of them. Useful for intermediate grades as research. Photographs

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