2012-2013 Tried and True: children’s books found to be successful in K/3 and K/4
Patti Lloyd -- Atkasuk
There's a Nightmare in my Closetby Mercer Mayer Puffin Books
Aliens Love Underpants. Clare Freedman & B. Cort, Scholastic (first by Simon & Schuster UK )
This one is a rhyming book, so supports phonemic awareness (and laughter)
Lorianne Juhasz - Wainwright
Ten Dirty Pigs, An upside-Down, turn-Around Bathtime Counting Book by Carol Roth, Scholastic, 1999.
Ten on the Sledby Kim Norman, Scholastic, 2010
These stories have counting and rhyme in them. Plus my students loved the pictures in both books.
Connie Commins -- Ipalook
Dinosaur Roar by Paul & Henrietta SticklandPenguin
Opposites concept book
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. (1969)Putnam
Anna Mekki --Ipalook
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Mary Ann Hoberman and Nadine
Bernard Westcott
Pattern book- kids love these because they can “read” them
Splish, Splash!By Yvonne HookerGrosset & Dunlap, Inc.
Non-fiction with cut-out
Mae Ahgeak – Ipalook
Three Bears
Told with Inupiaq words woven into the story.
Nykki Saxton -- Ipalook
Old MacDonald Had a Farm-a pop-up book with no author information on the book. Published in @2008 by Igloo Boos, Ltd.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Eric Carle
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Eric Carle
No, David! David Shannon (and all others in this series)
ChickaChicka Boom BoomBill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
Fabulous rhythm and rhyme, also a classic
That's Not My [Reindeer, Dinosaur, Dolly, Baby, Dragon, etc.] series by Fiona Watt/Usborne touchy-feely books
Laurie Hebert
The Way I Feel by Janan Cain published by Parenting Press (board book)
A B C Look At Me by Roberta GrobelIntrater published by Price Stern Sloan (Dolly
Parton Imagination Library)
And for the tool unit in Storytown my kids really, really liked this one:
Building a House by Byron Barton published by Green Willow Books (An ALA Notable
Book) Mulberry Books An imprint of William Morrow & Co.
Jana Harcharek
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout by TerriSloat and illustrated by
ReynoldRuffins.
Has the same interest level as The Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly, but includes the advantage of Alaska themes and animals.
Teresa Gifford- Nunamiut
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, By Bill Martin & Ill. By Eric Carle
There's An Alligator Under My Bed, by Mercer Mayer
The last book I would recommend is a Tumble book calledFelicity Floo Visits the Zoo
Bonny
Duck! Rabbit! –or is it Rabbit! Duck!Tumble Books.
This is a personal favorite of mine, but I find that many children do not get the humor at first.
On Mother’s Lap by Ann Herbert Scott.
The 1973 edition has excellent sepia-toned illustrations that reflect rural Alaska of years ago (no electronics). A more recent edition has colored illustrations, also beautiful, but more idealized.
Go Home, River by James Magdanz
Tells of an Inupiat family traveling to the headwaters of a great river,then floating back to Kotzebue for the great trading festival long ago. 1996 Alaska Northwest Books (available used)
Houses of snow, skin and bones by Bonnie Shemie, Tundra Books, 1989.
I got this at Title Wave for 9.00. Factual book, with fabulous illustrations of snow and skin and sod houses across the circumpolar north. You could have great conversations with the children about this book.
Whale Snow by Debbie Dahl Edwards 2003 Charlesbridge: Watertown MA
This book has been reissued in hardback for schools and libraries. Translated to Iñupiaq at