https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n Szabo en-us 2017-09-25 06:30:20 UTC 2025-12-28 18:21:07 UTC hello@padlet.com lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190683219 Author: Mo Willems
Piggie makes elephant wait all day for a surprise and elephant groans and groans until nighttime comes whereupon all the stars come out in a brilliant display making the wait worth it. Children find it hard to wait not knowing how long or when something will happen and the waiting pages in the book seemed to go on forever but in the end some things are well worth the wait.]]> 2017-09-25 06:33:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190683219 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190685312 Author: Julie Danneberg
We see a character not wanting to get up in the morning for her first day in a new school. She imagines the chaos will be just like her old school but she is forced to get up, dressed, and driven to school whereupon she meets the principal and she is escorted to her classroom where she meets...her students. The surprise is that she is the teacher at a new school. Funny knowing that even teachers share the same worries and fears as new students.]]> 2017-09-25 06:43:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190685312 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190686993 Author: Chris Van Allsburg
A sister and brother find a board game, read the directions then as they play real life things from the jungle come to life in their house. Lion, rhino, snakes, monkeys, volcano, monsoon but they are all sent away by a lucky dice roll and yelling Jumanji like the directions said to. They take the game and hide it in the park next to their house. They fall asleep but wake up when their parents come home with some friends. The friends mention that their sons never read the directions and at the same time are seen running through the park with what appears to be the Jumanji game. Kids love to use their imaginations and the story teaches that it's important to read the directions.]]> 2017-09-25 06:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190686993 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190689429 Author: Shel Silverstein
This is a new release book of rhyming text in Jabberwocky style word mashups. It's not a story with a plot, just Runny Babbit having different adventures and rhymes. Very funny. Young readers once they get used to the word mashup can easily predict how the sentence is supposed to sound the correct way.]]> 2017-09-25 06:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190689429 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190690863 Author: Aaron Becker
I had to buy this one because of the beautiful illustrations.  A wordless book showing a young girl using a pink pen to draw her was out of her world and into another world.  She draws a boat on a creek, a balloon in the sky where she rescues a purple bird from a steampunk style airship but gets captured herself in the process.  It is the bird that returns and rescues her afterwhich they both return to the girls world where they discover the purple bird belongs to a boy with a purple pen. The girl and the boy use their pens to draw a bicycle to ride together. Children can relate even without any text and understand how the girl felt lonely and ignored in her world so she created her own.]]> 2017-09-25 07:05:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190690863 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190693637 Author: David Wiesner
Another wordless picture book save for a few "times".  Almost on my purchase list due to the beautiful illustrations.  Frogs flying when it gets dark on lily pads.  Funny, cute, you gotta read (see) this one. Even more funny when in the morning the police have to investigate the strange collections of lily pads all over town minus the frogs of course.  That very night at sunset, it was the pigs turn to fly.
I can't imagine any kid not liking this book with its whimsical wordless style]]> 2017-09-25 07:16:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190693637 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190700294 Author: Peggy Rathman
Well intentioned Officer Buckle and his safety tips was ignored by the school until he got a dog named Gloria. The students now loved to watch Gloria but soon excluded Officer Buckle. Gloria decided she would not perform or work without her partner Officer Buckle and once reunited continued together as a team. Kids need to see the success of collaboration and teamwork in action.]]> 2017-09-25 07:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190700294 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190702096 Author: Eric Carle
Using vivid abstract graphics of different animals, Humans mimic the physical moves of the animals. Using imagination, kids show how they can do that too.

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This ukrainian folktale has authentic eastern european style illustrations and tells the story how a boy wanted his Baba (grandmother) to knit him white mittens. Baba agrees but warns him they could be lost in the white of the snow and as predicted one is lost but this is where the folktale describes how all these different animals who otherwise would never come near each other crawl into the mitten to keep warm. When the boy finds his lost glove the animals have gone and the glove is oddly stretched out. What kid hasn't lost their gloves in the snow.]]> 2017-09-25 07:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190703078 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190705076 Author: Donald Crews
Children decided to take short-cut home late in the day and walk down the railroad tracks. They worry an unscheduled freight train could come along any time and they said "we should have taken the road straight home". Sure enough, a freight train comes speeding down the tracks and the children jump to the side and walk home after the train has passed. The kids did something they knew was not a good idea and it almost cost them dearly.]]> 2017-09-25 08:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190705076 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190706497 Author: Eve Bunting
Bunting...no pun intended.Linda does not feel like she is part of the team because everyone on the team is losing their first tooth. In the end, Linda finally loses a tooth so she can feel like part of the team. It's important to know that being part of a team is not just one little thing like a tooth and Linda did not have to feel apart from her team. ]]> 2017-09-25 08:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190706497 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190707906 Author: Mem Fox
Illustrations of indegenous Australian animals with possum characters Grandma Poss and Hush. Grandma uses magic to make Hush invisible to protect her afterwhich using native geography and native foods to turn Hush back visable. Great art work]]> 2017-09-25 08:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190707906 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190708831 Author: Arnold Lobel
One of a series of Frog and Toad books. This had a number of adventures about making lists, waiting for seeds to sprout, and willpower over eating cookies, all things a kid can learn a lesson from.]]> 2017-09-25 08:16:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190708831 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190710152 Author: Ezra Jack Keats
A little boy living in an urban area experiences a snowy day. He is surprised later to find the snowballs he put in his pockets are gone. ]]> 2017-09-25 08:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190710152 lszabo2 https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190710860 Author: Patricia Polacco
Using eastern european ethnic illustrating about 3 goats escaping their pen and going on an adventure. The reader should read aloud the sounds of hooves, gate squeaking, water splashing, band playing, tent flapping, etc. Young readers can make up these sounds to help them stay engaged with the book.]]> 2017-09-25 08:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lszabo2/z10ygvofmv6n/wish/190710860