https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p Recommended literature for preschoolers. en-us 2021-06-18 18:52:28 UTC 2026-02-26 15:37:36 UTC hello@padlet.com gcoyne06 https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1614831963 Brown Bear, Brown Beat, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. is an engaging book for young readers about animals. The repeated text and illustrations allow even the youngest readers to be successful. I like to sing this book with my students which also helps them to be successful.]]> 2021-06-18 18:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1614831963 gcoyne06 https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1614876780 What's the Weather? by Shelley Rotner is a book that explains the weather to young readers. It talks about hot days and rainy days, tornadoes and clouds, storms and rainbows, and seasons. The text is informational about a topic of science that is relatable and easy for young readers to understand with picture supports.]]> 2021-06-18 19:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1614876780 gcoyne06 https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1614886253 Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer explores many different families, noticing that the common denominator is love. No matter what the make up of the family, love is what makes it. The books says love is reading books, baking, playing, and a bedtime kiss all with the people in your family. The pictures in the book include families with a mom and a dad, two moms, two dads, single parents and other caregivers, allowing every child to feel included.]]> 2021-06-18 19:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1614886253 gcoyne06 https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1614891103 Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willems is the second in a three book series. In the book Trixie is excited to bring her Knuffle Bunny to show off at preschool until she realizes another student has the same bunny. The girls argue until their bunnies get taken away, but when Trixie goes to bed that night she realizes she no longer has her own Knuffle Bunny. The girls meet up to exchange bunnies in the middle of the night and become best friends.]]> 2021-06-18 19:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1614891103 gcoyne06 https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1616407157 Working in Space by Martha E. Rustad is an informational text about the jobs of astronauts in space and what work needs to be done in a spacecraft. The photographs in the book offer another great source of information to students about a topic many of them would enjoy.]]> 2021-06-20 20:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1616407157 gcoyne06 https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1616410465 Don't Forget Dexter by Lindsay Ward is book 1 of 3 in the Dexter T. Rexter Series. It is about a toy dinosaur getting left behind at a dentist's office. Dexter does all he can to find his best friend Jack by looking for him, asking people and singing their special song louder and louder. Dexter starts to think Jack left him behind on purpose and gets very worried until his friend comes back for him.]]> 2021-06-20 20:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1616410465 gcoyne06 https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1616415711 The Wall in the Middle of the Book by Jon Agee is about a knight who is afraid of the other side of the book because of the tiger, rhinoceros, and ogre. The knight does not realize the dangers on his side of the wall with a growing sea of water and a crocodile until he needs help and the ogre saves them. The knight realizes the other side is a great place to be.]]> 2021-06-20 20:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1616415711 gcoyne06 https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1616417824 Owls Are Good at Keeping Secrets by Sara O'Leary is an alphabet book that shows a fun story about an animal that starts with each letter. The pictures allow children to make inferences about the text and relate to the written text.]]> 2021-06-20 20:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1616417824 gcoyne06 https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1616418752 Hip-Hop Lollipop by Susan Montanari tells the story of Lollipop going through her bedtime routine in a fun, rhythmic and rhyming way. Lollipop brushes her teeth to the beat, dances into her pajamas, dances with her family, then dances in her dreams.]]> 2021-06-20 20:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1616418752 gcoyne06 https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1616419063 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault is an old classic book about the alphabet. Every letter goes up the coconut tree in this rhythmic book. The book has a song-like nature and a fun repeating line "chicka chicka boom boom, will there be enough room?". When the coconut tree falls, the letters all go to their parents to seek comfort.]]> 2021-06-20 20:49:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gcoyne06/nfkx0udaa0b7v70p/wish/1616419063