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August 2015 Kids Booktalks Tickly Toes Susan Hood, Author Barroux, Illustrator ©2014 Kids Can Press Ages: 1-3 Call Number: Juv BoardBk Hood BoardBook: What makes baby laugh? Not stuffed animals, or a rattle, or a rubber duck. Take off those booties with ribbons and bows and let baby find his toes. Barroux’s large colorful simple illustrations paired with Hood’s rhyming text make Tickly Toes a perfect board book for baby and adult to share. Snow Bow Harriet Ziefert, Author Yukiko Kido © 2014 Blue Apple Books Ages: 4-6 Call Number: Juv Primer Ziefert, Harriet Primer: Kido’s colorful Japanese anime style illustrations enhance Ziefert’s innovative primer. Word families (eet, ate and ow) are grouped in chapters. Cutouts at the bottom of the page allow a learning reader to flip to a new opening sound combined with a known word family. Subsequent pages in each chapter have simple phrases using the newly learned vocabulary with illustrations as hints to the meaning of the phrase. I like this fresh new approach. Rocket’s 100th Day of School Tad Hills, Author and Illustrator ©2014 Schwartz & Wade Books Ages: 5-7 Call Number: Juv Reader Hills, Tad Reader: Rocket is collecting 100 special objects to celebrate the 100th day of school. Bella, the squirrel lets him store the items in her hole in the tree. When the big day arrives, Rocket only has 95 items. What has happened to his 5 acorns? We can all empathize with Bella when she finally admits that she ate them. Hills adorable illustrations and large simple text are sure to make this a favorite with beginning readers. 1 August 2015 Kids Booktalks Sick Simon Dan Krall, Author and Illustrator © 2015 Simon & Schuster Ages: 4-8 Call Number: Juv PicBk Krall, Dan Picture Book: Come along with Simon as he goes to his favorite place, school. However, Simon has three germ friends: virus, diarrhea, and bacteria with him. During a typical school day, Simon shows how easily germs can be passed on to his school friends and teacher. After his germ friends tell him how people get sick, Simon decides to become a germ hero. Simon drinks lots of fluids, covers his mouth when he sneezes or coughs, uses a tissue to blow his nose, throws away used tissues in the trash can, washes his hands with soap and warm water in addition to resting all weekend. No longer sick, Simon returns to school, his favorite place. A New Friend, Series : The Adventures of Sophie Mouse, #1 Poppy Green, Author Jennifer A. Bell, Illustrator © 2015 Little Simon Ages: 7 and up Call Number: Juv Step-up Green, Poppy Step-Up: The first book in The Adventures of Sophie Mouse series is a must read for back to school! Sophie Mouse and her friends are excited to see each other when returning to school. To their surprise, a new student arrives and everyone is afraid of him. Read to discover why the animals are afraid. You’ll be amazed at the books’ ending! Sacagawea Kitson Jazynka, Author ©2014 National Geographic Ages: 7-10 Call Number: Juv Bio S119j Biography: This is a Level 3 National Geographic Kids book for the fluent reader who is ready for more challenging vocabulary and varied sentence structure. It details the life of Shoshoni Indian Sacagawea, born circa 1790. It discusses her kidnapping by another tribe and her marriage at 15 to Toussaint Charbonneau, a Canadian fur trader. Her importance to the Lewis and Clark team is noted as well. The book includes photographs of Indian artifacts. There is also a glossary of terms and a timeline of Sacagawea’s life. The book ends with a quiz testing the reader’s recall of facts from the text. 2 August 2015 Kids Booktalks Dinosaurs From Head to Tail Stacey Roderick, Author Kwanchai Moriya, Illustrator © 2015 Kids Can Press Ages: 3-6 Call Number: Juv 567.9 R688d Nonfiction: Can you guess which dinosaur it is by looking at a body part? Try it out in this bright and colorful dinosaur guessing game book illustrated with digital collages. There are eight different dinosaur parts to guess from the head to the tail and all the way down to the claws. The book includes a short informative paragraph, including pronunciation, on each dinosaur and its body part that is highlighted. There are also extra pages with information on seven more dinosaurs and interesting facts on their body parts. Fighting Sickness (series: Building Blocks of Science) Joseph Midthun, Author Samuel Hiti, Illustrator © 2014 World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company Ages: 7-11 Call Number: Juv 616.079 M629f Nonfiction: Fighting Sickness presents an overview of the human body’s immune system in graphic novel style. It allows readers to really visualize what is going on in the body, explaining the important concepts and elements in a way that entertains as well as informs. White blood cells, the body’s organs, bacteria, and viruses all become characters, and tell readers directly what they are doing to, for example, cause infection or fight it. In such a story form, kids may be able to process the information better and understand it in a way that helps them remember it easily. Readers will gain knowledge of how germs (harmful bacteria and viruses) cause infection in the body, how white blood cells fight infection, the difference between bacteria and viruses, and ways we as individuals can prevent infections (washing hands, shielding one’s sneezes, eating healthily, and exercising regularly). Kid readers will enjoy the elements of humor presented within the cartoons. When explaining that a runny nose is part of the body’s immune response, a running nose is shown chasing a pair of lips, which says, “It’s SNOT funny!” A sneeze is shown to release alien-looking microbes, who exclaim “YA-HOO!” and “WHEEE!” as they make their way into another child’s mouth and nose. The white blood cells are presented as real superheroes, sending out antibodies to “patrol” the body, always on alert, and ready to combat harmful invaders at a moment’s notice. Fighting Sickness is one volume in a set of eight books which present the different organ systems of the body; all are available to check out from our library system. 3