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By- Bob Sornson
Genre- Juvenile Fiction
Reading Level- K-4
Summary- This book is about teaching what empathy means. Emily's big sister teaches her that words by having her stand in someone else's shoes or to look at things in their perspective to understand how they are feeling.
Interdisciplinary Use-
I will use this book to teach empathy just like its meant for. The students will take turns role playing different scenarios and discuss what they would do if they were in those situations.

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By- Beth Ferry
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- Pre-K-3
Summary- Stick rescues stone from a pine cone.  At the end of the story stick needs help, and stone helps him too.
Interdisciplinary Use-
I would use this to show students that it always important to look out for each other. Always being there for each other is a great way to build together and help each other get better as well.

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By- Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- Pre-K
Summary- Each letter of the alphabet races to the top of a coconut tree. The tree is not strong enough and the letters all fall out.
Interdisciplinary Use-
I would use this book to help teach the student the alphabet.  This gives the students a visual representation of the letters in order.

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By- Faith McNulty
Genre- Science Fiction
reading Level- Pre-K-3
Summary- Thus book is similar to a survival guide.  It tells about the journey on the way to the moon.  It describes what an astronaut eats and how they take care of themselves on the way to the moon.  It then explains how gravity works once on the moon, and how they have to walk to find the supplies the need.  The most important part is when they describe how to get back home. This book gives a detailed explanation on how a space mission really goes.  Interdisciplinary Use-
Science- The students will learn about how gravity affects us on the Earth. They will also learn the difference between gravity on the Earth and the moon.

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By- Janet Jordan Shefelman
Genre- Historical Fiction
Reading Level- 3-5
Summary- Young Wolf goes to look for his horse Red Wind because he was stolen. During his search for his horse, he comes across Spirit Horse. They have to overcome many dangerous obstacles to find his horse.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Social Studies- I would use this book to introduce Native Americans to the students. The students will pick a tribe and do research on it. They will then write one paragraph describing the culture of the group.

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If You Decide to Go to the Moon
Young Wolf and Spirit Horse
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Stick and Stone
Stand in My Shoes

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By- Alvin Tresselt
genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- K-2
Summary- This book is about the first snowfall of the year. It portrays the adults in a panic trying to get everything they need.  It shows the innocence of the children by showing how happy they are simply by playing in the snow and catching the flakes on their tongues.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Science- The students will learn about different types of precipitation and how snow is produced. They will learn the cycle of the water rising then cooling and falling back to the ground.

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By- Virginia Lee Burton
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- K-2
Summary- This book is about a small house that remains the same while a large city is being build around it. Towards the end, the house is the only thing left that is not modernized. At the end, one of the lady's great great granddaughters comes across the house and arranges for it to be moved out into the country where the lady would have wanted it.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Social Studies- Students will learn the differences between rural and urban areas. They will then be given a worksheet where the have to match which objects belong in which area.

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By- Maurice Sendak
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- Pre-K-3
Summary- This book is about a boy named Max. One night he dresses like a wolf and gets into trouble, so he is sent to bed without dinner. A forest appears in his room, and a boat comes to take him to the land where the wild things are. He becomes king and fixes all of the wild things' problems. After the monsters go to bed, Max returns home.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Students will write two lists. The first list will be all the way a student should properly behave. The second list is of the ways that students should not behave. The students will take both lists and write a comparing and contrasting essay on how students should behave.

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By- Eve Bunting
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- Pre-K-3
Summary- This books is about a riot in Los Angeles. The families are forced to evacuate their houses. The neighbors have a lot of issues with each other, but they put their differences aside to find their cats.  In the end, they end up getting along.  The story is told from the point of view of a boy named David.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Students will learn about the importance of working together.  The class will be given a set of clues to find something hidden in the class. Each team will have to work together to answer questions to be the first to find the hidden object.

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By- Kevin Henkes
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- K-2
Summary- This book is about a kitten who sees a full moon and mistakes it for a bowl of milk.  He chases it and climbs a tree to try to reach it.  He is very sad when he does not succeed.  He goes home to find a bowl of milk waiting for him.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Science- The students will learn all the phases of the moon in order. They will also learn the name of each phase.

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Kitten's First Full Moon
Smoky Night
Where the Wild Things Are
The Little House
White Snow Bright Snow

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By- Beverly Cleary
Genre- Children's Literature
Reading Level- K-3
Summary- This book is about a mouse who makes friends with a young boy.  The boy gives the mouse a motorcycle.  The mouse loses the motorcycle.  The boy becomes sick, and the mouse travels to get him the medicine he needs.  In the end, the boy regains his trust in the mouse and he gets his motorcycle back.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Vocabulary- The students will receive a list of words from the story. After reading, the students will create their own story using the vocab words they have been given.

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By- Eric Rohmann
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- Pre- K-2
Summary- This story is about a mouse and a rabbit. The mouse trusts his friend rabbit with his things even though he knows that rabbit tends to break or lose things.  Mouse sticks by rabbit and helps him every time no matter what.
Interdisciplinary Use-
I would use this book to teach kids about respecting others. It is important for students to learn that it is great to share your things with others, but if you are borrowing someones toy, you need to treat it very careful.

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By- Alice and Martin Provensen
Genre- Children's Literature
Reading Level- K-2
Summary- This book is about Louis Bleriot. He attempts to builds a plane to fly across the English Channel. After many fails, he finally builds a plane that stays in the air. He made it to England in thirty-seven minutes.
Interdisciplinary Use-
History- Students will learn about when the first planes were created.  They will also look at how the airplane has adapted since it was first invented.

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By- Phillip C. Stead
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- K-2
Summary- This book is about a guy named Amos who works in the zoo everyday.  One day when he is sick and has to take a day off, the animals return the favor and come help him get better.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Language Arts- Students will write a list of different ways to help someone in need. The students will use this list as an outline to write an essay.

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By- Robert Southey
Genre- Fairy Tale
Reading Level- Pre-K-1
Summary- This book is about a girl named Goldilocks who goes into a family of bear's cabin while they are out. While inside, she eats their porridge, breaks one of their chairs, and sleeps in their bed.  When the bears come home and find her, she wakes up and jumps out the window and runs away.
Interdisciplinary Use-
The students will learn how to order things from smallest to largest and the opposite. They will also be able to match objects together by their size.

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
The Glorious Flight
My Friend Rabbit
The Mouse and the Motorcycle

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By- Shel Silverstein
Genre- Children's Poetry
Reading Level- 3-5
Summary- This poem describes the section where the sidewalk ends and the street begins.  Children easily know this intersection.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Reading- I would use this as an introduction to poetry. I would have the students find a second poem of their choice and compare and contrast the two.

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By- Laura Numeroff
Genre- Children's Literature
reading Level- K-2
Summary- This story is a list of why you shouldn't give a mouse a cookie. At first the mouse wants a cookie, then he needs milk.  After that he needs a straw.  The list goes on and it circles completely back to the cookie again.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Language Arts-
Students will learn how a cycle works like in the story. They will create their own cycle of something. For example, a student gets out of bed every morning and goes through his or her daily routine just to end up back in bed.

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By- Nonny Hogrogian
Genre- Children's Literature
Reading Level- K-3
Summary- A fox gets his tail cut off because he drank a woman's glass of milk. To get his tail back, he has to get her more milk. On the journey, the fox comes across other animals and people who help him if the fox helps them in some way.  In the end, the lady sews the foxes tail back on.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Language Arts- Students will receive a vocabulary list for this book before reading. Once the story is read, the students will point out the words in the story. They will write a new sentence for each word listed.

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By- P.D. Eastman
Genre- Children's Literature
Reading Level- K-2
Summary- This book is about a baby bird.  When it hatches from the egg, his mother is out getting food. He sets off to look for his mother.  He encounters many different animals and objects and asks if they are his mother.  In the end, the bird and his mother are united.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Science- Students will learn how baby birds eat and survive when they are born. Students will also learn how all of the other animals in the book feed and take care of their babies as well.

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By- Eric Carle
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- Pre-K-1
Summary- This book is about a very small caterpillar who continues to eat throughout the book.  The bigger he gets the more he eats.  At the ends, he turns into a butterfly.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Science- The students will use this boo to learn all of the steps in order of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Are You My Mother?
One Fine Day
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Where the Sidewalk Ends

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By- Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- K-3
Summary- This book is about a young boy who is invited over to visit the king and queen.  He asks to bring a friend.  The boy is invited over multiple times, and every time he brings more friends.  At the end, the king and queen go to visit the boy and all his friends at the zoo.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Language Arts- Since this books rhymes, i would use it to teach the students about rhyming words. After learning about how words rhyme, the students will partner up and pick out the pairs of words that rhyme in the book. They will briefly discuss what causes each pair to rhyme.

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By- Jon Klassen
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- K-3
Summary- This story is about a small fish who takes a hat from a big fish while he is sleeping.  He thinks that the big fish won't wake up soon, so he won't know it was taken.
Interdisciplinary Use-
I would use this book to teach the students that stealing is not okay. This book portrays a picture that stealing is not bad if he doesn't get caught, but the students need to learn that stealing is always bad. The students will write a brief story on why they think stealing is wrong.

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By- Drew Daywalt
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- K-3
Summary- One day, the crayons decide that they want to switch things up.  They don't want to have to color the same things all the time, so they quit!
Interdisciplinary Use-
I would use this book to teach younger students about colors. They will learn all of the colors and what items they would be used to color.

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By- Marcus Pfister
Genre-Children's literature
Reading Level- Pre-K- 3
Summary- This book is about a beautiful fish who at first does not want to share his scales.  As the book goes on, he shares with more people and this makes him feel happy.  He gives one of his scales to everyone he knows.
Interdisciplinary Use-
I will use this book to teach students how to share. This isn't a lesson in the common core, but I think it is very important to review this with students throughout the year.

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By- E.B. White
Genre- Children's Literature
Reading Level- 3-6
Summary- This book is about a spider who helps a pig.  Charlotte is the spider who writes nice things about Wilbur the pig to save him from getting killed.  In the end, Charlotte dies from exhaustion, and Wilbur takes care of her eggs until they hatch.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Science- The students will learn how spiders create webs using an online video. After the video, students will make their own spider web.
Language Arts- Students will use vocabulary from the book to fill out a worksheet. They will need to put the correct word with the correct sentence from the book.

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Charlotte's Web
The Rainbow Fish
The Day the Crayons Quit
This is Not My Hat
May I Bring a Friend

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By- Peter Spier
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- K-2
Summary- In a time of darkness in the world, God chose Noah to build an ark for him and his family to survive a great storm God was going to bring. Noah was to bring two of each animal onto the ark. It rained for forty days and nights.  The ark came to dray land, and Noah and his family built their lives there with God as the center.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Math- To use this book in a creative way, I would use this to reinforce how to count by twos. After reading the book, the students will go back through and count each animal mentioned by two and see how many animals were there all together

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By- Shel Silverstein
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- K-2
Summary- This story is about a tree and a young boy. The tree and the boy grow together, and throughout the boys life, the tree supplies him with everything he needs to be happy. This makes the tree happy.  The tree and the boy stay in contact until the boy is very old.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Language Arts- Students will use the lesson of giving to others and sharing to write their own story.  Students will write about a time in their life when either they shared with someone or when someone shared with them.  Students should discuss how this made them feel.

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By- David Shannon
Genre- Picture Book
Reading Level- K-3
Summary-  This book is about a five year old kid who always breaks rules. He chews with his mouth open, jumps on furniture, and breaks a vase.  The main line of the book is "No, David!".
Interdisciplinary Use-
Language Arts- I will use this book to help students understand how certain punctuation works. Once the students learn the different types of punctuation, they will read this book for an example. Since this book has a lot of explanatory sentences, the students will be able to see when it is appropriate to use this punctuation.

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By- Rebecca Emberley
Genre- Picture Book/ Song
Reading Level- Pre-K- K
Summary- The monster eats a tick, and it makes him feel sick. He tried to get rid of the tick by eating ants, a lizard, a bat, a jackal, a bear, and finally a lion. The monster ate so much that his stomach burst.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Science- I will use this book to introduce the food chain to the students. They will learn how the smallest animals eat and how the chart moves up from there.

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By- Steve Jenkins and Robin page
Genre- Picture book
Reading Level- Pre-K- 3rd
Summary- This book explores how different animals use the parts of their bodies. It shows how these animal parts help the animals in nature.
Interdisciplinary Use-
Science- Students will learn more in depth about how the parts of animals bodies affect their senses.
Animals use these body parts to survive in the wild.
Health- Students can use this apply the parts of the animal to themselves.  They can learn how they use each part compared to other animals.

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Featured text- What Do You Do with a Tail like This
There was an Old Monster
No, David!
The Giving Tree
Noah's Ark

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Book Critiques