Teaching point: Discuss events that take place when seasons changes, difference or changes in the environment. Can be used to take about land forms like ponds and animals that live there or what makes it not a lake or river.        

Starts off with an illustration with animals and different colors of the rainbow. Then the story focuses on the color red using a leaf with red ladybugs, red animals like Scarlet ibis, monkey Bald uakari, North cardinal, Great frigate bird, Cora Pacific giant octopus. At the end of the book a guessing game and map of where all the animals  live is available.

Teaching point: Talking about nouns that are common and proper. Characteristic of various animals and things that are similar or different. Could also use book to talk about regions in the world and animals that inhabit these areas.  

Teaching point: Teachers can use this book during Science to introduce life forms, living and nonliving. Also, helpful and harmful bacteria. 

Teaching point: Introduction to a seed and how it creates food and plants that are require for lots for animals and people. You could use and then actual allow students to plant a variety of plants/seeds.  

Genre: Nonfiction   2015      
 Age/Audience K-5th Grade
Books starts off with a question to get minds wondering or reads attention, what are plants? Then the author goes right into answering that question. An excellent drawing of a plant is provide breaking down the components of a plant with words. Takes about air, sunlight and food being elements a plant needs to grow. Talks about seeds with comparisons using adjectives. Throughout the story questions are asked then answered. Glossary provided with definition and pronunciations. Beautiful pictures.

Teaching point: Introduction to living things and what is needed. Can use to talk about adjectives. Talk about what a question is and words used when asking one like what, when, where, why and how.  

Teaching point: Natural disasters, clouds, wind and the weather. Events that were huge that have taken place in the United States.

Genre: Nonfiction 2010         Age/Audience -3rd-5th Grade
This book is all about the Great Barrier Reef; how it made, how long it stretches, life forms that live there where its located and the people who have used it resources. Pictures are actual photos take to show this habitat and the surrounding elements which I really enjoy looking at. 

Teaching point: Discuss habitats and benefits. The Great Barrier Reef and the ocean that surrounds it. Pollution and the effects it has on this particular land form and our environment 

Genre: Nonfiction 2012   Age/Audience K-5th
In this book ears are the focus and who has them. Characteristic are talked about where the ear is located, how it helps animals and people hear sounds. And how quite a few of different animals have their ears in spots to detect predators. I didn’t even realize a frog’s ears are around their eyelid. Wow. 

Teaching point: Introduction to sound(how it travels, the importance of being able to hear and how it helps) and identify where different ears are located on animals 

Genre: Nonfiction 2015      Age/Audience 3rd-5th Grade
Who would of know this information unless they read this book about the many unique way eggs are laid by animals. How birds, insects, reptiles and sea creatures go about delivering and carrying their eggs. This book uses illustration that have been draw and painted by hand. The author breaks the text up in to individual areas which include a picture. Lots of interesting info. 

Teaching point: Talk and write about animals who lay eggs what are some of the unique ways and who do you like the most and why. (Differences of opinion)

Genre: Nonfiction    2012    Age/Audience 2nd-5th Grade
Things you just wouldn’t know this book has an awesome way of telling fact that are odd but true. Ever two pages in this story provides and illustration of an animal then a weird fact and information. For example, a Cactus wren is a type of bird that lays its egg in a cactus to keep enemies away. I like the way some words are in bold print. 

Teaching point: Fact or opinion. Use facts from story and then allow them to create an opinion based off of what they think once story was read. Or you could have student look at pictures first and say what they think the weird fact will be. 

Teaching point: Show children how to use a biography to create and write a book report on a person life. Can be used for black history month.  

Genre:  Nonfiction 2014       Age /Audience 1st-5th Grade
This book has been set up similar to the Magic Tree house picture books with information, but in chapter form. In this book facts are provided associated with heroes who made a difference in our history like Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, John Muir and others. Jack and Annie are the students who travel back in time to get answer to questions. Provides Fact Tracker on the outskirts of the pages.Younger students would have to be read to from this story.

Teaching point: Student create a timeline based off the facts of heroes that are identified in the book and see if any connections can be made amongst these heroes that changes our history 

Teaching point: Discuss and document things that would occur during the time of the Underground Railroad. Have students draw and illustrate one thing they learned about the Underground Railroad 

Genre: Nonfiction 2014        Age/Audience 1st-5th Grade 
This book offers information about various animals from the animal kingdom(elephant shrew, llama,emu etc...). Excellent illustration just enough facts where younger children will not be overwhelmed and might motivate older children to explore these animal facts a little deeper. 
Teaching point: This book does have a small glossary in the back, but others word in this book that are not included could have student to look up additional words using the dictionary for definition. Great introduction to a lesson about the animal kingdom.